PHILADELPHIA | Highrise Development Thread X - Page 136

PHL10 · #**2701** Posted **May 11, 2021, 6:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by TK2001

https://phillyyimby.com/2021/05/yimb...ladelphia.html

I love the blue color....super cool.

Porky · #**2702** Posted **May 13, 2021, 2:38 PM**

I think about how cool the Philly Skyline would be right now if 2008 never happened. Look at all the tall proposed buildings that we never got. Makes me sad.

mcgrath618 · #**2703** Posted **May 13, 2021, 3:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by Porky

I think about how cool the Philly Skyline would be right now if 2008 never happened. Look at all the tall proposed buildings that we never got. Makes me sad.

Oh no. Someone delete this before you-know-who brings up the you-know-which canceled project.

Plokoon11 · #**2704** Posted **May 13, 2021, 4:18 PM**

Thats almost if you say beetle juice 3x.

City Wide · #**2705** Posted **May 13, 2021, 8:15 PM**

Please, we haven't heard about it in a couple weeks.

TonyTone · #**2706** Posted **May 13, 2021, 10:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by City Wide

Please, we haven't heard about it in a couple weeks.

Oh god not again. Forget 2008 so much better things have happened since then.

Bach1685dude · #**2707** Posted **May 14, 2021, 6:01 AM**

Does Philly have the most (or one of the most) construction activity for an older, non-sunbelt city? It seems like everyday a new project starts or is proposed.

mcgrath618 · #**2708** Posted **May 14, 2021, 12:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by Bach1685dude

Does Philly have the most (or one of the most) construction activity for an older, non-sunbelt city? It seems like everyday a new project starts or is proposed.

New York kicks everyone in the ass, but outside of them, we’re definitely up there.

PHLtoNYC · #**2709** Posted **May 14, 2021, 1:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by Bach1685dude

Does Philly have the most (or one of the most) construction activity for an older, non-sunbelt city? It seems like everyday a new project starts or is proposed.

By number of new housing units recently (metro-wide), Philadelphia is ahead of Boston, San Francisco, and even Chicago. Not New York (sheer mass), and DC is always booming.

But Philadelphia is moving along, which is great to see.

TK2001 · #**2710** Posted **May 14, 2021, 1:19 PM**

There was a filming helicopter above the city during sunset, I saw it fly between the Liberty Place towers. Anyone have any information?

Groundhog · #**2711** Posted **May 14, 2021, 1:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by TK2001

There was a filming helicopter above the city during sunset, I saw it fly between the Liberty Place towers. Anyone have any information?

I saw a big fire in Point Breeze from a roof deck around that time and there was a news chopper covering that. Guessing that's what you saw.

TK2001 · #**2712** Posted **May 14, 2021, 2:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by Groundhog

I saw a big fire in Point Breeze from a roof deck around that time and there was a news chopper covering that. Guessing that's what you saw.

I was watching that fire as well, two news choppers stopped above it. But this filming helicopter kept doing circles around the Center City towers, from 1,000 feet high to 5,000 feet high. The callsign was N130SW

Boku · #**2713** Posted **May 14, 2021, 10:27 PM**

Lol, unreal:

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On a far larger scale, Stone solves some of the mystery behind Amazon’s HQ2 debacle, in which the company announced plans to build a giant new office complex in Queens, then pulled out in the face of local opposition. That New York City was even a possibility was the result of a decision by Bezos to throw out months of careful study — which had narrowed the choices down to Chicago, Philadelphia and Raleigh — and go instead with his gut.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/13/b...rad-stone.html

hammersklavier · #**2714** Posted **May 15, 2021, 6:36 AM**

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Originally Posted by Boku

Lol, unreal:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/13/b...rad-stone.html

Really adds fuel to the fire, doesn't it? (To be honest, though, I'm not sure whether we came out better or worse from not having Amazon, although it certainly would have helped get whichever major office-space project they preferred moving along.)

3rd&Brown · #**2715** Posted **May 15, 2021, 1:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by Boku

Lol, unreal:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/13/b...rad-stone.html

Well as written, the RFQ was an exact match for Philadelphia.

Then he just did what most executives do who are tasked with such decisions. He picked what he thought was the 'coolest' option.

Note: Most of these people are not cool.

mcgrath618 · #**2716** Posted **May 15, 2021, 2:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by 3rd&Brown

Well as written, the RFQ was an exact match for Philadelphia.

Then he just did what most executives do who are tasked with such decisions. He picked what he thought was the 'coolest' option.

Note: Most of these people are not cool.

Hell, he even chose two cities equidistant from Philadelphia. Almost as if to spite us.

PhilliesPhan · #**2717** Posted **May 15, 2021, 4:36 PM**

I was walking down North Broad and noticed that the seafood place at the corner of Broad and Melon is closed. Additionally, the for sale signage at the adjacent vacant lot is now gone. I think that the lot has been sold, and that we may see something tall near the corner of Broad and Ridge in the near future!

El Duderino · #**2718** Posted **May 15, 2021, 7:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by PhilliesPhan

I was walking down North Broad and noticed that the seafood place at the corner of Broad and Melon is closed. Additionally, the for sale signage at the adjacent vacant lot is now gone. I think that the lot has been sold, and that we may see something tall near the corner of Broad and Ridge in the near future!

the building and lot were being marketed as a 68-unit development site (CMX-4), so hopefully this means they changed hands and we will see something with some decent-ish height soon. North Broad/Ridge Ave/Spring Garden have changed so much recently and even so, they are going to be wildly different 5 years from now.

arkitect13 · #**2719** Posted **May 16, 2021, 4:07 AM**

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Originally Posted by Boku

Lol, unreal:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/13/b...rad-stone.html

Im gonna be completely honest, while amazon coming to philly would have done somuch for development and our skyline, im happy we missed out, because while the jobs were sorely needed, it could have ruined our cities decently affordable market, a portion of the city would have turned into NYC or seattle pricing-wise

Boku · #**2720** Posted **May 17, 2021, 1:17 PM**

Philly came closer to being selected for Amazon’s ‘HQ2’ than previously known, new book reveals

https://www.inquirer.com/news/amazon...-20210515.html

Basically, the search team in charge of collecting all of the data had Philly in the final three along with Chicago and Raleigh, and then the senior executives discarded the recommendations for their own personal preferences, including the next CEO who is a die hard Giants fan and said he would never live in Philadelphia. How'd those New York offices work out for ya, bud?