PHILADELPHIA | Highrise Development Thread IX

[summersm343]

KOZs proposed, renewed to lure Amazon to University City

Read more here:
http://planphilly.com/articles/2017/10/12/kozs-proposed-renewed-to-lure-amazon-to-university-city

[PhilliesPhan]

Originally Posted by UrbanRevival

Fantastic news. And piggy-backing on that report, Brookings released a report yesterday relative to the top urban US universities for research commercialization (the crux of the report is that urban universities themselves are generally better at research commercialization), and Philly has 2 in the Top 10 (Penn at #4 and Temple at #7), and 4 in the Top 25 (Jefferson at #12 and Drexel at #25).

It's worth noting that only New York City had the same number of universities within the Top 25, and Boston had 3.

Anyone who suggests that the Philly isn't full of incredible economic capacity and potential is lying.

https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/upl...wntown_universities_scott_andes_full.pdf

Temple is doing amazing work, and it will only become more apparent as the years go on! I'm currently a student in the Fox School of Business. Our rise in the rankings has been nothing short of amazing. We are now a top 50 undergraduate AND graduate business school, ranking higher than Smeal (Penn State), Lebow (Drexel), Lerner (UDel), and other area business schools. Additionally, certain programs, such as Actuarial Science, have consistently ranked in the top 10. The University itself has also been rising nicely in the rankings. This is one reason why I'm hopeful for more big development on North Broad: there is an incredible amount of human capital just north of City Hill.

Also, you are absolutely right about Philly having the economic capacity and potential! We have the location, infrastructure, and human capital necessary to compete with other innovative cities. This city has so many assets that it could leverage in order to attract companies to move to the city, both from inside and outside of the region. The time has never been better to capitalize on this, especially with so many major development plans in place!

[El Duderino]

^Temple's online MBA program is also very well regarded and is helping increase its national profile.

All of these recent reports are fantastic overall and tell the story of a thriving city. There is still an incredible amount of work to do for many people, but it's been great seeing good things afoot.

[summersm343]

How excited should Philly be about its growing office market?

Read more here:
http://planphilly.com/articles/2017/10/1...hilly-be-about-its-growing-office-market

[Nova08]

Facade of S. Broad St. health center building designated historic as developers bid for property

http://www.philly.com/philly/business/so...lth-center-facade-historic-20171013.html

...Because 1960's low rise architecture can't possibly be destroyed on South Broad. I get there is some history, but I am on the fence with this one.

[1487]

Originally Posted by Nova08

Facade of S. Broad St. health center building designated historic as developers bid for property

http://www.philly.com/philly/business/so...lth-center-facade-historic-20171013.html

...Because 1960's low rise architecture can't possibly be destroyed on South Broad. I get there is some history, but I am on the fence with this one.

this is ridiculous.

[mcgrath618]

Originally Posted by 1487

this is ridiculous.

Absolutely agreed. What an ugly building.

[summersm343]

Originally Posted by Nova08

Facade of S. Broad St. health center building designated historic as developers bid for property

http://www.philly.com/philly/business/so...lth-center-facade-historic-20171013.html

...Because 1960's low rise architecture can't possibly be destroyed on South Broad. I get there is some history, but I am on the fence with this one.

For fucks sake. There are hundreds of other buildings throughout Philadelphia that should be historically designated, and are not.... yet they waste their time designating this????

This building is nothing special at all. All we're doing is complicating development. Philadelphia LOVES to make development complicated.

[summersm343]

Photos: Inside and around CHOP’s Roberts Center for Pediatric Research tower

Read more here:
https://philly.curbed.com/2017/10/13/16464128/chop-research-tower-photos-tour

[skyscraper]

Originally Posted by Nova08

Facade of S. Broad St. health center building designated historic as developers bid for property

http://www.philly.com/philly/business/so...lth-center-facade-historic-20171013.html

This is horseshit. And so is the building.

[acenturi]

Originally Posted by kingtut

Holy sh*t Philly ranked 3rd.in nation by U.S. Chamber of Commerce for tech start ups .
https://www.uschamber.com/sites/default/files/itm_2017.pdf

More interesting is that Pittsburgh ranked in the top tier (#12). It somewhat confirms Pittsburgh's uniqueness as a small (compared to most other cities on the entire List) city, which significantly outweighs its peers in tech talent. Good for PA.

[Swinefeld]

Work Underway On Philly’s Rail Park

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Phase One of The Rail Park is sprouting in Philadelphia, as dozens of volunteers moved mulch, planted shrubs, and hugged newly installed trees.

The $10 million portion is the first quarter-mile stretch of the Rail Park. It rises from street level at Broad and Noble Streets, just above Callowhill, to near 11th and Callowhill Streets.

Story cont.

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2017/10/13/work-underway-on-phillys-rail-park/

[Urbanthusiat]

Originally Posted by acenturi

More interesting is that Pittsburgh ranked in the top tier (#12). It somewhat confirms Pittsburgh's uniqueness as a small (compared to most other cities on the entire List) city, which significantly outweighs its peers in tech talent. Good for PA.

Not only that, but both cities are moving up on the list. PA is luck to have two amazing research clusters in University City and Oakland. It's what is keeping us from having a dismal outlook like some other states that will not be named.

[hammersklavier]

Originally Posted by summersm343

For fucks sake. There are hundreds of other buildings throughout Philadelphia that should be historically designated, and are not.... yet they waste their time designating this????

This building is nothing special at all. All we're doing is complicating development. Philadelphia LOVES to make development complicated.

Fun fact: Some 🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵 designated that ugly monstrosity the United Way occupies on the Parkway historic. That's gonna be a major headache if (when?) somebody wants to redevelop that whole block, given that it occupies roughly half of it.

Originally Posted by Urbanthusiat

Not only that, but both cities are moving up on the list. PA is luck to have two amazing research clusters in University City and Oakland. It's what is keeping us from having a dismal outlook like some other states that will not be named.

Not only that, but we have universities in practically every midsize city in the state (Reading's got Albright, Lancaster's got um something named after some Revolutionary War guys I think, the Lehigh Valley's got Muhlenberg and Lehigh, Easton Lafayette, Scranton er Scranton, and so on) as well as an excellent midlevel public system. I kinda think our education system stacks up well against e.g. California's.

[MikeNigh]

Historical significance is relative. If a 3 story 🞵🞵🞵🞵 rubble of only 50 years and already abandoned is set to be replaced by a trophy building set to last 100 years then the new building is already more historically significant without even being built.

Imo there should be two levels of historical registration. Those buildings which are virtually irreplaceable and those which must be replaced with something set to be more historically significant.The former list should be extremely hard to get on, ie nothing less than 200 years old.

[BenKatzPhillytoParis]

Originally Posted by acenturi

More interesting is that Pittsburgh ranked in the top tier (#12). It somewhat confirms Pittsburgh's uniqueness as a small (compared to most other cities on the entire List) city, which significantly outweighs its peers in tech talent. Good for PA.

Indeed, glad to see that. Though the size of Pittsburgh's city proper is a bit misleading. The metropolitan area is 2.5 million people, so it's not so much of an outlier compared to some other cities on that list. I mean, I get your point, it is a little bit ;-)

[skyscraper]

Originally Posted by MikeNigh

Historical significance is relative. If a 3 story 🞵🞵🞵🞵 rubble of only 50 years and already abandoned is set to be replaced by a trophy building set to last 100 years then the new building is already more historically significant without even being built.

Imo there should be two levels of historical registration. Those buildings which are virtually irreplaceable and those which must be replaced with something set to be more historically significant.The former list should be extremely hard to get on, ie nothing less than 200 years old.

Even more annoying is the fact that it is just the facade that is designated as historic. That is completely odd to me: I'd like to see them try to designate the *interior* of a building as historic but not its facade, then they'd make the argument that you can't separate the two. So why can you separate them when it's the exterior in question? Either the building is historic or it isn't, you can't pick and choose.
Also it means that that 🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵 seafoam green exterior is going to have to be integrated into whatever is built there. Bad, bad move, Historic Commission.

[skyscraper]

Also, here is some ouija board and tea-leaf reading saying that Philly and Austin are the 2 top contenders for Amazon:
https://www.bisnow.com/national/news/off...usiness-and-phillys-great-location-80273

[Jawnadelphia]

The Liberty Title building conversion to Aloft Hotel really turned out great.









Hanover on N. Broad (15th Street side of the project) - continues:


One Franklin - PMC apartment conversion, getting close to the finish:

[GtownFriend]

^^^Thanks TallCoolOne for all the great pix