PHILADELPHIA | Lowrise/General Developments Thread II

[3rd&Brown]

Originally Posted by BroadandMarket

I did the same thing with 311/Mark Squilla/PennDot on trying to get the area under 676 on 2nd from Vine to Spring Garden cleaned. All three of them said it was someone else's responsibility and it stays filthy.

I don't want to continue this topic as it clearly drives people crazy in not a good way.

As for the landscaped areas under 95 through Fishtown and Port Richmond, there are a series of neighborhood groups that do weekly cleanings and I think anyone who drove by would notice it's markedly cleaner now than it was, say 6 months ago. Some areas border on spotless. On top of that, once you establish a routine its easy to keep up.

Maybe you could establish such a group among the people who live in the northern part of Old City?

The last piece are the actual streets. We're not going to walk out onto the streets with broom sweeps when the city or Penndot should be doing it.

[Redddog]

Originally Posted by BroadandMarket

I did the same thing with 311/Mark Squilla/PennDot on trying to get the area under 676 on 2nd from Vine to Spring Garden cleaned. All three of them said it was someone else's responsibility and it stays filthy.

I was just under there this past weekend. It was spotless. You did it!

[PHLtoNYC]

I love lists and rankings, and CBRE just released their "Tech Talent" 2024 report cards.
https://mktgdocs.cbre.com/2299/d06ae...alent-2024.pdf

Philadelphia ranks 24 of the 50 largest markets in North America. The biggest takeaway (IMO) is that Philadelphia produces tech talent, but doesn't retain much tech talent.

How does Philadelphia become more competitive in tech?

[Redddog]

Originally Posted by PHLtoNYC

I love lists and rankings, and CBRE just released their "Tech Talent" 2024 report cards.
https://mktgdocs.cbre.com/2299/d06ae...alent-2024.pdf

Philadelphia ranks 24 of the 50 largest markets in North America. The biggest takeaway (IMO) is that Philadelphia produces tech talent, but doesn't retain much tech talent.

How does Philadelphia become more competitive in tech?

By having more tech jobs to keep talent from leaving.

[PHLtoNYC]

Originally Posted by Redddog

By having more tech jobs to keep talent from leaving.

lol yes, but where to begin?

[PHL10]

Originally Posted by Redddog

By having more tech jobs to keep talent from leaving.

That could be a threat to Chinatown so it's a big "no" for me.

[TK2001]

2300 Market Street by Philly SkyGuy, on Flickr

2300 Market Street by Philly SkyGuy, on Flickr

2300 Market Street by Philly SkyGuy, on Flickr

2300 Market Street by Philly SkyGuy, on Flickr

[PhilliesPhan]

Originally Posted by PHLtoNYC

I love lists and rankings, and CBRE just released their "Tech Talent" 2024 report cards.
https://mktgdocs.cbre.com/2299/d06ae...alent-2024.pdf

Philadelphia ranks 24 of the 50 largest markets in North America. The biggest takeaway (IMO) is that Philadelphia produces tech talent, but doesn't retain much tech talent.

How does Philadelphia become more competitive in tech?

It blows my mind that Philly never became a tech hub. After all, ENIAC, the first digital computer, was developed at Penn. Not building off of the success of ENIAC and Penn Engineering to develop an early tech industry in Philadelphia is such a generational miss. Imagine how the succeeding decades would have played out had Philly established itself as a tech player in the 1940s.

[3rd&Brown]

NY only became a "tech hub" 10 years ago.

A good plan and continued investment in education (at all levels) but specifically in relevant fields will turn the tide eventually.

[PhillyPDX]

Originally Posted by 3rd&Brown

NY only became a "tech hub" 10 years ago.

A good plan and continued investment in education (at all levels) but specifically in relevant fields will turn the tide eventually.

Is biotech considered tech? Philly seems to be doing well in that.

Philly is well positioned between the major hubs of NY-DC, seems like playing off that is important.

What is with Canada? Toronto increased tech works by 44% since 2018 (and is #3, so already a big player)? All cities there are killing it. Calgary +78%?

[mih216]

Has anyone posted anything on the Calder Museum? Has a thread been started? The back of it is pretty visible from 676, but I haven't seen any visuals from the Parkway side.

[Londonee]

Originally Posted by mih216

Has anyone posted anything on the Calder Museum? Has a thread been started? The back of it is pretty visible from 676, but I haven't seen any visuals from the Parkway side.

You only start threads for high rises on this forum... it's a relatively small museum. It's coming along nicely and AFAIK is on track to open next year. Everything I've seen, heard, and read about it lead me to believe this is going to be an absolute show-stopping stunner - a huge cultural win for the city.

[PHLJD13]

Originally Posted by mih216

The back of it is pretty visible from 676, but I haven't seen any visuals from the Parkway side.

There really isn't much to see yet from the Parkway side since the building is partially subterranean, but there have been workers consistently on site for months. I'm eager to see how the Parkway view transforms once they start planting the gardens and landscaping.

[PHLtoNYC]

Philadelphia's poverty rate drops 1.4% to 20.3%, now within the margin of error with Houston. Very promising data.
Though, The Inquirer just can't help but add that jab in the headline (I know Cardeza will disagree ).

Philly poverty rate sees largest drop in 10 years, but we’re still the poorest big city
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/ph...-20240912.html

Philadelphia’s poverty rate fell more than one percentage point between 2022 and 2023, marking the most significant year-over-year decline in a decade, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The share of people living in poverty declined from 21.7% in 2022 to 20.3% in 2023. That number has declined or remained stagnant every year since 2011, when the rate peaked at 28.7%, or more than one-quarter of the city’s population.

By official measures, Philly residents are more well-off than they’ve been since at least 1979.

The second-poorest city, Houston, is trailing by less than a percentage point, a gap comfortably within the survey’s margin of error.

Philadelphia is not the poorest city of any size in the nation, or even the poorest of the top 25 most populous cities in the nation, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.

[3rd&Brown]

Originally Posted by PHLtoNYC

Philadelphia's poverty rate drops 1.4% to 20.3%, now within the margin of error with Houston. Very promising data.
Though, The Inquirer just can't help but add that jab in the headline (I know Cardeza will disagree ).

Philly poverty rate sees largest drop in 10 years, but we’re still the poorest big city
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/ph...-20240912.html

Philadelphia’s poverty rate fell more than one percentage point between 2022 and 2023, marking the most significant year-over-year decline in a decade, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The share of people living in poverty declined from 21.7% in 2022 to 20.3% in 2023. That number has declined or remained stagnant every year since 2011, when the rate peaked at 28.7%, or more than one-quarter of the city’s population.

By official measures, Philly residents are more well-off than they’ve been since at least 1979.

The second-poorest city, Houston, is trailing by less than a percentage point, a gap comfortably within the survey’s margin of error.

Philadelphia is not the poorest city of any size in the nation, or even the poorest of the top 25 most populous cities in the nation, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.

Yes, but...

The Inquirer's forte.

It's actually a 6% drop year over year and a 30% drop from its peak in 2011.

And as it states, family incomes are the highest they've been since 1979 (adjusted for inflation) and steadily closing the gap with the US average.

Every other city would have had as it's headline any one of the above statitistics.

Not the Inquirer.

[Radio5]

The Camden rendering of the Sixers arena looks so much better. Not saying it should be there, but now looking at the CC arena, it looks like a 2006 stadium in some sim city or something.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid...12059617624720

[ScreamShatter]

Originally Posted by Radio5

The Camden rendering of the Sixers arena looks so much better. Not saying it should be there, but now looking at the CC arena, it looks like a 2006 stadium in some sim city or something.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid...12059617624720

Yea. Those renderings are fire. It’d be a huge win for Camden. Hope Philly doesn’t f it up and lose the tax revenue.

[Arch+Eng]

Originally Posted by PHLtoNYC

I love lists and rankings, and CBRE just released their "Tech Talent" 2024 report cards.
https://mktgdocs.cbre.com/2299/d06ae...alent-2024.pdf

Philadelphia ranks 24 of the 50 largest markets in North America. The biggest takeaway (IMO) is that Philadelphia produces tech talent, but doesn't retain much tech talent.

How does Philadelphia become more competitive in tech?

What incentives are we offering for Tech companies to move here or start here? We should give them a 5 year tax abatement or something.
Maybe we could focus on new emerging tech industries like A.I. or crypto.

[BroadandMarket]

Originally Posted by ScreamShatter

Yea. Those renderings are fire. It’d be a huge win for Camden. Hope Philly doesn’t f it up and lose the tax revenue.

Are you serious? It's not a real proposal. This is from the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, not the 76ers. This will never be built so I'll get ahead of that. The 76ers, if they picked Camden, would never pick North Camden. This site is 1 mile walk from the nearest Patco station and Patco can't handle the demand for a 18,000 person arena.

Putting a state funded arena and highrises basically on top of 2 story rowhomes in one of the poorest neighborhoods in America is especially evil. NJ should be embarrassed for even suggesting this. It's a massive waste of money and insult to the citizens of Camden. This would 100% be more disruptive to North Camden than Chinatown.

These are the types of houses that would have an arena and highrises in their backyard with insane traffic because there is no way to get to a Camden arena except by car. If you've ever been to a event at BB&T, you would know that.

[EastSideHBG]

Five, We Mean Four, We Mean Zero Condos Will Rise at 27th & Oxford
https://www.ocfrealty.com/naked-phil...n-brewerytown/