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Originally Posted by iheartphilly
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Well that's certainly unexpected. I would've thought they'd try to land a lead tenant first. It also seems to suggest the two Market Street sites (3400 and 3800) remain on the back burner.
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Originally Posted by summersm343
CDR Submissions are up for February!
Most exciting project is Cathedral Place, the development around the Basilica. Looks like it's going to be a great project, and include a Phase One 245' tower, and a Phase Two 685' tower.
https://www.phila.gov/media/20200122...08616698.1.pdf
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This is pretty impressive, all things considered. I was dubious from the beginning that the Archdiocese office building would come down (isn't the whole point of this endeavor to maximize their income from the property? In which case demolition of a perfectly serviceable extant office building and concomitant relocation of the offices it holds elsewhere, and the expense that incurs, runs contrary with this plan's ultimate goals).
I'm not really sold on the building's site orientation -- the apartment lobby will be facing the cathedral's back wall, and the apartment building's backside sits along 17th across the street from the Definitely-Not-A-Sheraton (TM) and next to the Archdiocese offices -- and I'm also dubious that the extensive landscaping they have planned is quite sufficient to make up for it. But that's my only real quibble with what's been presented here.
Also the site maps made me appreciate just how big the lawn next to the cathedral at 18th and Race is. I hope that doing something with that comes into the picture once Phase 2 comes to fruition.