PHILADELPHIA | Highrise Development Thread IX - Page 317

threecount · #**6321** Posted **Jan 21, 2015, 11:33 PM**

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Yeah. I recall rumors recently on this forum that it may one day see the light of day and that it could reach that height. If it truly isn't dead it would be amazing. Wishful thinking perhaps.

It looks like it is smack in the midle of the train station..for anyone that travels there, they will realize the Cira building is directly across the street from the train station..there is no room in between..

I work in the IRS at the old post office..they are still doing construction on top of the garage for the public green space, but they look a long way off, probably summer at the earliest as lots of materials, ect. are still taking up the 10th floor of our garage..we also have EVO residents using the bottom two-to-three floors for parking. I don;t know where everyone from the new "Cira South" building under construction next to the garage will park..they may be counting on a lot of train commuters..

GarCastle · #**6322** Posted **Jan 22, 2015, 12:29 AM**

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So what's your best guess at this point? Do you think that HUP will keep the old buildings in addition to the new complex? Or will that space eventually be taken back by Penn for general academic purposes?

The most cost saving would probably be to surrender the buildings in chunks. The model shots that someone recently linked that I posted awhile back showed a nice above shot of the main HUP chunk/block. It has quite a bit of space between the buildings. So they might do the HUP 2.0 in phases that correspond to emptying out & reshuffling HUP 1.0 a bit so that they could demo/remodel a couple chunks at a time. Hard to say really since they could just gut the buildings and re-fit the inside to be whatever they wanted. If I were them, I would want a gem of an academic building or set of buildings on that whole block that would let them grow into for new classrooms and/or Labs for the next XX years.

Cheers,
G.

boxbot · #**6323** Posted **Jan 22, 2015, 1:13 AM**

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Originally Posted by threecount

It looks like it is smack in the midle of the train station..for anyone that travels there, they will realize the Cira building is directly across the street from the train station..there is no room in between..

I attempted to find some more renders of that building planned for Cira 2 but was unsuccessful. I did find this old master plan rendering, though, which seems like pure insanity:

philatonian · #**6324** Posted **Jan 22, 2015, 1:38 AM**

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Originally Posted by boxbot

I attempted to find some more renders of that building planned for Cira 2 but was unsuccessful. I did find this old master plan rendering, though, which seems like pure insanity:

It seems some people don't think it's that insane considering this is part of Drexel's master plan...

boxbot · #**6325** Posted **Jan 22, 2015, 1:57 AM**

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Originally Posted by philatonian

It seems some people don't think it's that insane considering this is part of Drexel's master plan...

Well, no, those aren't the same at all, but Drexel's future city that it would build with unlimited resources, time and the rights to Amtrak's land is way more insane.

philatonian · #**6326** Posted **Jan 22, 2015, 2:24 AM**

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Well, no, those aren't the same at all, but Drexel's future city that it would build with unlimited resources, time and the rights to Amtrak's land is way more insane.

Oh I think that rendering is insane too. It just looks way more insane than the Cira Centre plan. I'd still love to have either

ILovePhilly · #**6327** Posted **Jan 22, 2015, 7:42 PM**

Comcast to occupy 100% of new tower,
sorry related start-up and innovation partners.

From the Biz Journal

This certainly bodes well for those of us hoping for tower #3!

philly13 · #**6328** Posted **Jan 22, 2015, 8:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by ILovePhilly

Comcast to occupy 100% of new tower,
sorry related start-up and innovation partners.

From the Biz Journal

This certainly bodes well for those of us hoping for tower #3!

Tower 2 isn't even above street level and I've seen plenty of discussion of a third comcast building already. Damn, comcast has spoiled us!

Philly Fan · #**6329** Posted **Jan 22, 2015, 8:30 PM**

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Tower 2 isn't even above street level and I've seen plenty of discussion of a third comcast building already. Damn, comcast has spoiled us!

Outta here · #**6330** Posted **Jan 22, 2015, 8:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by ILovePhilly

Comcast to occupy 100% of new tower,
sorry related start-up and innovation partners.

From the Biz Journal

This certainly bodes well for those of us hoping for tower #3!

I'm confused . If CITC is going up on the surface lot at 18th.& Arch , the
only other lot I know of is between 19th.& and 20th. I haven't been in that
area for a long time but , if that is the " chosen lot " for a third tower , I have
trouble imagining anything too tall ....... IMO .
Of course , I'm still hemorrhaging over that 360'er that is going up next to the
old Blue Cross Tower . So I guess it is safe to say ..... not too much taller than that .

VikingDutchman · #**6331** Posted **Jan 22, 2015, 8:49 PM**

Two towers is where I draw the line with Comcast. Good for Philly? Sure. Bad for the country since Comcast is a miserable company holding back our infrastructure through an ever more paralyzing monopoly? Yes.

If Comcast is really considering going beyond these two towers, that seems to me just a sign that the Feds need to get serious about fixing the telecommunications sector and cut Comcast down to size.

Preferably after they finish building CITC of course.

iheartphilly · #**6332** Posted **Jan 22, 2015, 8:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by VikingDutchman

Two towers is where I draw the line with Comcast. Good for Philly? Sure. Bad for the country since Comcast is a miserable company holding back our infrastructure through an ever more paralyzing monopoly? Yes.

If Comcast is really considering going beyond these two towers, that seems to me just a sign that the Feds need to get serious about fixing the telecommunications sector and cut Comcast down to size.

Preferably after they finish building CITC of course.

How so? Regulate it as a public utility.

boxbot · #**6333** Posted **Jan 22, 2015, 9:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by VikingDutchman

If Comcast is really considering going beyond these two towers, that seems to me just a sign that the Feds need to get serious about fixing the telecommunications sector and cut Comcast down to size.

I am confident the Republican Congress will get right on that.

mattejb · #**6334** Posted **Jan 23, 2015, 3:04 AM**

I guess you havn't been following what Amazon is doing in Seattle. Three buildings is no big deal.

shakman · #**6335** Posted **Jan 23, 2015, 3:08 AM**

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Originally Posted by philly13

Tower 2 isn't even above street level and I've seen plenty of discussion of a third comcast building already. Damn, comcast has spoiled us!

That explains why my Comcast bill keeps rising.

acenturi · #**6336** Posted **Jan 23, 2015, 5:56 AM**

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Originally Posted by ILovePhilly

Comcast to occupy 100% of new tower,
sorry related start-up and innovation partners.

From the Biz Journal

This certainly bodes well for those of us hoping for tower #3!

If Comcast is taking 100% of CC2 for employees, where are they going to house the Innovation and Technology aspect of the facility, which I thought was to include significant spaces for outside entrepreneural companies - a mini-Vertical Silicon Valley.

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Originally Posted by mattejb

I guess you havn't been following what Amazon is doing in Seattle. Three buildings is no big deal.

Amazon has submitted PLANS to build a 24 and 8 story Building and has designated 3 city blocks for 1 or more "Potential" future 38 Story Towers.That's a bit different than 2 - 1000 foot Comcast adjacent towers - 1 complete and the other under construction, plus the potential for another large tower, particularly if the TW merger goes through.

mattejb · #**6337** Posted **Jan 23, 2015, 6:16 AM**

Adding 4 million square feet in a year and planing to have a total of 10 million square feet of space all downtown by the end of this decade is nothing to roll your eyes at. What would Comcast look like with an additional 5 million square feet of space by 2020?

http://m.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/te...rly-4-million-square-feet-of.html?r=full