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Originally Posted by Flyers2001
Nope, the whole tower and not just the garage. The new plans as laid out, with a new street grid is about 90% a go. The only thing that is still being worked out is the dispute between Penn and Chop regarding the new traffic patterns. Approx 12 months to Penn Tower is closed out.
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The foot bridge was mentioned recently again, I can't recall if it is a "nice to have" or a promise that was made to someone (City, CHOP, employees, or someone else).
It could be built in phases certainly telling by that model but there were no details near the display. I had heard from a couple C-level execs that the ICUs would be the first phase and that it would be built in phases. But whether that whole thing is phase I and something on the top of the middle and on top of the other arm of Perelman would be phase 2 OR if the pad and 1 tower would be phase 1, etc. I have not heard.
The last I heard about Penn Tower, it was either to be emptied by the end of summer 2015 or begin to get emptied then. I forget which and that's a big difference.
The non-clinical tower in no-man's land with the garage attached is meant to clear out all the leases on Market street and bring the non-clinicals (Quality, IT, HR, etc.) together.
From what I heard it's the South Tower space that will shift the physician practices and some offices out of Penn Tower. I also heard that PMUC (AKA Cornerstone - not sure where that name came from) AKA 38th & Market could take on some additional offices - but that doesn't make much sense for HUP physician offices and it sounds like more and more Presby practices are moving into PMUC (hence the rumored lease of the entire building).
I'll chat up some C-levels and their direct reports to see what I can find out. They must know more about this than I have found out so far.
Cheers,
G.
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. Just bought a place actually because I know the area has great potential. I agree the neighborhood in general is quite safe, the trees that I love so much do unfortunately make it dark at night. There are a couple of blocks I don't feel great walking down at night but they are more concentrated near n.broad. The proximity to north philadelphia isn't super ideal but I believe as the years progress and the areas of fairmount francisville brewery town and north broad keep rolling over there really is no where to go but up and up. Seeing new construction on damn near every block between fairmount and Girard gets me pumped. It's only a matter of years before we see the beautiful mansions on Girard near 15 16 17 converted. When I went to temple I had friends living around there, thought they were nuts. There is demand though. Maybe we can get the Prep and Girard college to invest in the area a little haha
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