PHILADELPHIA | Highrise Development Thread IX - Page 396

McBane · #**7901** Posted **Jun 30, 2015, 3:11 PM**

I know it's close to the airport but 12-15 stories doesn't seem like it would interfere. The South Philly stadiums are at least as tall as a 12-15 story building. I was just thinking something just tall enough to be visible from 95 and other vantage points.

summersm343 · #**7902** Posted **Jun 30, 2015, 3:40 PM**

1200 Intrepid - Bjarke Ingels Group designed Navy Yard Building

http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/...liberty-property-trust-intrepid-ave.html

summersm343 · #**7903** Posted **Jun 30, 2015, 3:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by McBane

I know it's close to the airport but 12-15 stories doesn't seem like it would interfere. The South Philly stadiums are at least as tall as a 12-15 story building. I was just thinking something just tall enough to be visible from 95 and other vantage points.

If you look at the Master Plan, there is indeed plans for a ~12 floor building.

http://www.pidcphila.com/initiatives-projects/the-navy-yard

japmes · #**7904** Posted **Jun 30, 2015, 4:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by summersm343

If you look at the Master Plan, there is indeed plans for a ~12 floor building.

http://www.pidcphila.com/initiatives-projects/the-navy-yard

That's a lot of parking.

Yurkek · #**7905** Posted **Jun 30, 2015, 4:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by japmes

That's a lot of parking.

Such great place with a lot of potential, but parking is awful.

japmes · #**7906** Posted **Jun 30, 2015, 4:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by Yurkek

Such great place with a lot of potential, but parking is awful.

Extending the BSL to the Navy Yard should be a top civic priority.

skyscraper · #**7907** Posted **Jun 30, 2015, 4:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by summersm343

If you look at the Master Plan, there is indeed plans for a ~12 floor building.

http://www.pidcphila.com/initiatives-projects/the-navy-yard

And, apparently, recreational sailboats on the Delaware.

jjv007 · #**7908** Posted **Jun 30, 2015, 5:49 PM**

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Just rumors right now... but word in the halls of Jefferson is that they want to build a "tower of innovation"...ie... do what the science center is doing and build a remarkable building for it. We'll see!!!

Just curious, do you know what kind of tower they mean and where it might be? Couldn't find any info online.

summersm343 · #**7909** Posted **Jun 30, 2015, 6:03 PM**

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Hopefully on the site of that block-long orange shoe box of theirs on Chestnut!

I would prefer they build it right on the parking lot at 10th and Sansom or 9th and Chestnut. I would rather them fill up the parking lots before they start demolishing existing buildings.

cafeguy · #**7910** Posted **Jun 30, 2015, 6:14 PM**

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Just curious, do you know what kind of tower they mean and where it might be? Couldn't find any info online.

Faculty are talking about it after a faculty meeting. My guess is that it will be at the parking lot on sansom between 9th and 10th, but no details just yet. That's why I'm just saying rumors at the moment. You also have to remember the word "tower" could be small or large.

Cro Burnham · #**7911** Posted **Jun 30, 2015, 7:11 PM**

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I would prefer they build it right on the parking lot at 10th and Sansom or 9th and Chestnut. I would rather them fill up the parking lots before they start demolishing existing buildings.

Fair enough. The orange building needn't be nearly as awful as it is if, at very least, they reconfigured the ground floor street frontage for retail or just unblocked all the fuckin' windows at street level. They couldn't destroy the vibrancy of that block any more thoroughly if they tried. You'd think, just for the safety and quality of life of the faculty, staff, students and patients, it would be in their interest to make this simple fix and address this obvious and longstanding problem. I wonder why they seem to be ignoring it.

Beyond opening up the retail frontage, a simple reskinning - just about anything would be an an improvement - of the double-sized orange graph paper grid would be nice.

C'mon TJU, get it together! Your biggest contribution to the streetscape so far is Jimny John's.

cafeguy · #**7912** Posted **Jun 30, 2015, 7:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by Cro Burnham

Fair enough. The orange building needn't be nearly as awful as it is if, at very least, they reconfigured the ground floor street frontage for retail or just unblocked all the fuckin' windows at street level. They couldn't destroy the vibrancy of that block any more thoroughly if they tried. You'd think, just for the safety and quality of life of the faculty, staff, students and patients, it would be in their interest to make this simple fix and address this obvious and longstanding problem. I wonder why they seem to be ignoring it.

Beyond opening up the retail frontage, a simple reskinning - just about anything would be an an improvement - of the double-sized orange graph paper grid would be nice.

C'mon TJU, get it together! Your biggest contribution to the streetscape so far is Jimny John's.

Are you talking about chestnut between 10th and 11th? I mean... its not THAT bad. Sure, its a deadzone of no retail or building access, but so are the buildings across the street which are not Jefferson and are not vacant cause of Jefferson. Regardless, that building isn't going ANYWHERE. Its a very important part of the hospital and is there to stay. There was an agreement to put retail in there, but it never happened. Still, they have been pretty good across campus...renovating that tiny 2 story building to look cool enough for Inga, their 10th and 11th corridor is heavily trafficked due to hospital things, they renovated Hamilton square from a very unpleasant concrete wasteland, they redid the locust street building with more windows opening up student areas to the streets. Maybe a lack of retail stinks, but all in all, jefferson has done pretty good with their campus.

summersm343 · #**7913** Posted **Jun 30, 2015, 9:02 PM**

Made in America 2015

This is huge. Back to being a Philly only event as plans this year for LA have been nixed.

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The lineup for the fourth annual Budweiser Made in America festival has been announced, and the big star headliners are pop queen Beyonce, who also headlined in 2013 (and is married to festival curator Jay Z) and Canadian crooner The Weeknd (real name: Abel Tesfaye) who was also recently featured at the Roots Picnic.

The two acts will top the bill on the Labor Day weekend fest on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia on September 5 and 6. With both Beyonce and The Weeknd on board, this will be the first year that the fest does not feature one headliner from mainstream rock. This year, it's more of a hip-hop and R&B festival, that includes other genres, but does not emphasize them equally.

After going it alone in Philadelphia for its first two years, MIA expanded to Los Angeles to become a bi-coastal festival in 2014, happening simultaneously (if three hours behind schedule). Attendance reports were unimpressive, however, and reportedly problems with noise and crowd control in the city's Grant Park have nixed it this year.
Read more at Made In America 2015 lineup: Beyonce and The Weeknd to headline

jsbrook · #**7914** Posted **Jun 30, 2015, 10:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by cafeguy

Are you talking about chestnut between 10th and 11th? I mean... its not THAT bad. Sure, its a deadzone of no retail or building access, but so are the buildings across the street which are not Jefferson and are not vacant cause of Jefferson. Regardless, that building isn't going ANYWHERE. Its a very important part of the hospital and is there to stay. There was an agreement to put retail in there, but it never happened. Still, they have been pretty good across campus...renovating that tiny 2 story building to look cool enough for Inga, their 10th and 11th corridor is heavily trafficked due to hospital things, they renovated Hamilton square from a very unpleasant concrete wasteland, they redid the locust street building with more windows opening up student areas to the streets. Maybe a lack of retail stinks, but all in all, jefferson has done pretty good with their campus.

There may be retail yet. Between Brickstone and the 7th street apartments that will hopefully be built, I'd hope to see some stores fill both the Jefferson-owned and non-Jefferson owned vacant storefronts in the blocks between the two.

EastSideHBG · #**7915** Posted **Jul 1, 2015, 1:45 AM**

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Originally Posted by summersm343

This year, it's more of a hip-hop and R&B festival, that includes other genres, but does not emphasize them equally.

Huge mistake! I have gone every year since it has started and what I had loved about it was the diversity of the acts and the crowd and how so many genres basically had equal billing when you looked at the big picture; even acts not on the main stage had a pretty solid setup. My musical tastes are diverse and it was awesome being able to bounce around constantly to so many different things.

I am a big Rap/Hip-Hop fan but generally speaking it is pretty boring to watch live.

DIESELPOLO · #**7916** Posted **Jul 1, 2015, 7:20 AM**

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Originally Posted by japmes

That's a lot of parking.

So. Much. Parking.

Also, they're building a Class A, architectural gem on spec! What is this? 2005?

So I'm really trying to understand the success of the Navy Yard: Is all this building activity happening in the there due to the tax advantages of being a KOZ or are these particular companies interested in this low-slung suburban-esque environment...although the goal of the Navy Yard is not to be suburban, but it's seemingly manifesting that way...

apetrella802 · #**7917** Posted **Jul 1, 2015, 11:10 AM**

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Originally Posted by DIESELPOLO

So. Much. Parking.

Also, they're building a Class A, architectural gem on spec! What is this? 2005?

So I'm really trying to understand the success of the Navy Yard: Is all this building activity happening in the there due to the tax advantages of being a KOZ or are these particular companies interested in this low-slung suburban-esque environment...although the goal of the Navy Yard is not to be suburban, but it's seemingly manifesting that way...

http://www.navyyard.org/about-the-campus/master-plan

1487 · #**7918** Posted **Jul 1, 2015, 12:57 PM**

Brickstone building on Chestnut is topped out. The evergreen tree (more like a bush) was in place the other day when I walked by. I'm wondering when they will announce a tenant. Nothing has been announced for this project or East Market yet which I find surprising.

Insoluble · #**7919** Posted **Jul 1, 2015, 1:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by apetrella802

http://www.navyyard.org/about-the-campus/master-plan

This doesn't really answer the question though. This is the Navy Yard's PR publication. DIESELPOLO was more interested in why companies have chosen to locate there. I guess you'd have to ask the decision makers at those individual companies to be sure. But I suspect its a mix of things: tax breaks, being relatively easily accessible, influential people pushing it and advertizing it, etc.

McBane · #**7920** Posted **Jul 1, 2015, 2:41 PM**

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Originally Posted by 1487

Brickstone building on Chestnut is topped out. The evergreen tree (more like a bush) was in place the other day when I walked by. I'm wondering when they will announce a tenant. Nothing has been announced for this project or East Market yet which I find surprising.

I was pretty sure a TargetExpress was rumored to go into one or all of those retails spots. Then, it was reported that TargetExpress was coming to 19th and Chestnut, but that report had said they were looking for at least one other location in CC and so having one on 11th Street seems to make sense.