PHILADELPHIA | Highrise Development Thread X

[El Duderino]

let’s also not forget how ridiculously close these projects are to the river and all of the projects proposed within just a few blocks of here (in all directions). And if DiSimone gets their project just north of Spring Garden on Delaware Ave going, that will be another lot available right between these two new proposed buildings.

[3rd&Brown]

Originally Posted by El Duderino

let’s also not forget how ridiculously close these projects are to the river and all of the projects proposed within just a few blocks of here (in all directions). And if DiSimone gets their project just north of Spring Garden on Delaware Ave going, that will be another lot available right between these two new proposed buildings.

There's going to be something of a mini-skyline in a few years from the BFB Northward along 95 and the river.

[summersm343]

$500M mixed-use development proposed for NoLibs

Article behind paywall. Who can read it? Anything other info in here that we don't know yet?
https://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia...cx_testVariant=cx_8&cx_artPos=0#cxrecs_s

[philly_account12]

Originally Posted by summersm343

$500M mixed-use development proposed for NoLibs

Article behind paywall. Who can read it? Anything other info in here that we don't know yet?

Not a ton. Most of it is background on the companies involved and reasoning for why they're investing in this area of the city (linking Old City/NoLibs).

The mixed-use development will be built in three phases of which the first is expected to begin early next year and cost $300 million. It will involve constructing two apartment buildings — one at 200 Spring Garden St. and the other at 412 N. 2nd St. — and have a combined 750 units. Each building will have 20,000 square feet of retail space and the structures are expected to serve as bookends to the larger development.

Handel Architects, Morris Adjmi Architects, and MAJOR, firms Kushner and Killinger have worked with before, will design the project. The partnership continues to look for additional sites in Northern Liberties to buy to expand its presence and impact. It intends to break ground on the first phase during the first quarter of 2022 and envisions building out the project's three phases over the next three to five years.

There is an additional rendering of the entrance to the Spring Garden building that I haven't seen before.

[GtownFriend]

545 N Broad: I think we saw something on this, but can't locate it now..

The lot on the east side of Broad between Brandywine and Greene, is neary done demolition. The Goodyear is gone, there is only a partial shell of the Subway left.

Can someone remind me what this will be?

[PhilliesPhan]

Originally Posted by GtownFriend

545 N Broad: I think we saw something on this, but can't locate it now..

The lot on the east side of Broad between Brandywine and Greene, is neary done demolition. The Goodyear is gone, there is only a partial shell of the Subway left.

Can someone remind me what this will be?

It's going to look like this:




With this, LVL North, and the Toll Brothers apartment building to the south, the area surrounding Broad and Spring Garden will be much livelier in the coming years! Now, all we need is for Eric Blumenfeld to get 523 North Broad started.

[mcgrath618]

Originally Posted by PhilliesPhan

It's going to look like this:




With this, LVL North, and the Toll Brothers apartment building to the south, the area surrounding Broad and Spring Garden will be much livelier in the coming years! Now, all we need is for Eric Blumenfeld to get 523 North Broad started.

I love this design.


I find it funny that all the schlock is on the west side of Broad. Every building from the Philadelphia School District building to the LVL development is terribly designed with respect to Broad Street.

If anything, I take solace in the fact that JKRP will, when LVL is done, look across the street and see a new building that blows their crock of shit out of the water.

[PurpleWhiteOut]

I'm betting, assuming Philly's upward trajectory, the LVL project will be bought and replaced in 10 years

[skyhigh07]

Originally Posted by mcgrath618

I love this design.


I find it funny that all the schlock is on the west side of Broad. Every building from the Philadelphia School District building to the LVL development is terribly designed with respect to Broad Street.

If anything, I take solace in the fact that JKRP will, when LVL is done, look across the street and see a new building that blows their crock of shit out of the water.

Anyone know what the actual final design of LVL is? JKRP posted a new rendering on their Instagram a few months ago that appears to have been modified from the initial proposal. It actually looks somewhat tolerable. It was also posted on the engineer's site...

\https://bohlerengineering.com/blog/alterra-property-group-breaks-ground-in-north-broad/

[Urbanthusiat]

Originally Posted by skyhigh07

Anyone know what the actual final design of LVL is? JKRP posted a new rendering on their Instagram a few months ago that appears to have been modified from the initial proposal. It actually looks somewhat tolerable. It was also posted on the engineer's site...

Right so like we were saying, terrible.

[skyhigh07]

Originally Posted by Urbanthusiat

Right so like we were saying, terrible.

Trying to determine if the most recent renderings are indeed final or if they're some kind of marketing ploy. Its still not great, but slightly better than the original sardine can that was proposed.

[Jayfar]

Originally Posted by skyhigh07

Anyone know what the actual final design of LVL is? JKRP posted a new rendering on their Instagram a few months ago that appears to have been modified from the initial proposal. It actually looks somewhat tolerable. It was also posted on the engineer's site...

\https://bohlerengineering.com/blog/alterra-property-group-breaks-ground-in-north-broad/

I see in the PBJ article linked from the blog post, that this is to be modular construction above the ground floor steel and concrete podium.

Interesting too that it's named after their LVL 4125 development on Chestnut St in West Philly, but that development already has a new owner and a new name, Solo on Chestnut. According to another PBJ article last August, Alterra sold 4125 "to an undisclosed New York investor for $36 million."

https://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia...ty-apartment-complex-trades-for-36m.html

https://solochestnut.com/

[Mayormccheese]

Originally Posted by SEFTA

These are happening in Philly?
That's impressive density for that area.

200 Spring Garden Street

412 N 2nd Street

That 200 spring garden project is exactly what is needed at broad and washington

[PHLtoNYC]

Originally Posted by PurpleWhiteOut

I'm betting, assuming Philly's upward trajectory, the LVL project will be bought and replaced in 10 years

Very likely. Look at Liberty walk in Northern Liberties.

I also know of a few larger apartment buildings in Austin that hit the wrecking ball for more ambitious projects after ~15 years.

[Mr Saturn64]

So... it's been a while since I posted here. If anyone wouldn't mind, can I have a rundown of skyscraper developments here in the last year or so? Thanks.

[Urbanthusiat]

Originally Posted by Mr Saturn64

So... it's been a while since I posted here. If anyone wouldn't mind, can I have a rundown of skyscraper developments here in the last year or so? Thanks.

Just read through the page where everything is compiled. It's pretty comprehensive.

https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/tags.php?tag=philadelphia

[mcgrath618]

I plan on updating the OP of this thread tonight. It’s been awhile.

[SEFTA]

The "West End"
West End Proposals 6-3-21

The "EAST END"
East End Proposals 6-3-21

RED = Recent proposals (or not so recent)
BLUE = UC

[Nova08]

Drexel to keep labs in Center City after Iron Stone buys New College building
https://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia...ep-labs-in-center-city-as-new-owner.html

New College totals 600,000 square feet. Drexel currently occupies half of the space but under the new arrangement with Iron Stone, it will lease the entire building.

The deal with Iron Stone at New College will provide the university with the time it needs to plan, design and have constructed a new lab building near its campus University City, Greenberger said. The goal is to consolidate its labs from New College and Queen Lane into the new building, which will be developed by Wexford Science and Technology at uCity Square.

[PurpleWhiteOut]

Originally Posted by Nova08

Drexel to keep labs in Center City after Iron Stone buys New College building
https://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia...ep-labs-in-center-city-as-new-owner.html

That's amazing news! This is the outcome I was hoping for, and will be more convenient for Drexel as well.

Here's an Inquirer article for the same story