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summersm343 Oct 8, 2012 5:30 PM

PHILADELPHIA | Wanamaker Plaza | 214 FT | 14 FLOORS
 
Phase 1 of the Wanamaker Plaza redevelopment by the Goldenberg Group at the old John Wanamaker High School site next to Temple University has begun.

Phase 1 includes a 14 floor 214 foot residential tower aimed at students designed by Wallace, Roberts and Todd. Future phases may include more towers as well as a community center for local residents.

Title: Wanamaker Plaza North Tower
Project: 600 student beds in 180 units
Architect: Wallace, Roberts & Todd
Developer: The Goldenberg Group
Location: 1100 W. Montgomery Ave., Philadelphia, PA
Neighborhood: Templetown
District: North Philadelphia
Floors: 14
Height: 214 ft

http://www.wrtdesign.com/files/large/2350

Link to Renders
http://www.wrtdesign.com/projects/de...velopment-/205

Cost estimates put this project at $150mill
http://dodgeprojects.construction.co...VVviewprod.htm

summersm343 Oct 8, 2012 5:38 PM

Old John Wanamaker Middle School being demoed a few months ago
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6059/6...132d80ed96.jpg


Site prep after the demo
http://i1057.photobucket.com/albums/...3/IMG_3099.jpg

summersm343 Oct 8, 2012 5:39 PM

Work then halted for a few months. Original designs called for a reuse of the existing building. However, the building was deemed unfit and was demolished. New renders were released and work has begun again on the site.

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...14338171_n.jpg

Lecom Oct 8, 2012 9:16 PM

The old school had some nice mosaic murals facing Cecil B. Moore Ave. Oh well.

hammersklavier Oct 8, 2012 10:41 PM

What I heard is that Wanamaker was always a "sick" building. It was a handsome structure--an exemplar of Midcentury vernacular--but there was a reason it was closed a mere 30-some-odd years after it was built.

Oh well--the original site plan was IMO superior to whatever produces that Corbusierian panelák.

http://www.wrtdesign.com/files/large/879
Source

LMich Oct 9, 2012 7:20 AM

Interesting, though I think it'd look even better if the one wing was stacked atop the other.

summersm343 Oct 11, 2012 2:57 AM

Work is full steam ahead

Updates from today 10/10/2012

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...96279260_n.jpg

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...62124796_n.jpg

hammersklavier Oct 17, 2012 3:52 PM

I swung by there the other day. If I'm not misreading the construction, the first phase will run along the 12th St. side of the site all the way from Cecil B. Moore to Montgomery.

summersm343 Oct 19, 2012 8:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hammersklavier (Post 5869724)
I swung by there the other day. If I'm not misreading the construction, the first phase will run along the 12th St. side of the site all the way from Cecil B. Moore to Montgomery.

Hmm weird... I could have sworn this would was going to be along Montgomery.

hammersklavier Oct 23, 2012 5:14 PM

I probably misread it. I had initially read the shallow hole as the building core, but work is definitely clustered along Montgomery.

Cro Burnham Oct 23, 2012 8:24 PM

i think that 214 ft number must be off. this is a 14 story bldg. maybe the roof is 214 ft abve datum. but unlikely from street level.

summersm343 Nov 12, 2012 3:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cro Burnham (Post 5876826)
i think that 214 ft number must be off. this is a 14 story bldg. maybe the roof is 214 ft abve datum. but unlikely from street level.

No, it is 214 feet. I confirmed it with a construction worker.

summersm343 Nov 12, 2012 3:57 AM

New renders

http://www.wrtdesign.com/files/large/2350
http://www.wrtdesign.com/projects/de...velopment-/205

Cro Burnham Nov 12, 2012 5:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by summersm343 (Post 5898561)
No, it is 214 feet. I confirmed it with a construction worker.

Nice renderings.

But I think that worker is wrong. How could a 14-story student residential building be 214 feet? That's basically 15 feet per floor.

summersm343 Nov 12, 2012 6:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cro Burnham (Post 5898919)
Nice renderings.

But I think that worker is wrong. How could a 14-story student residential building be 214 feet? That's basically 15 feet per floor.

First floor will be about 18'5". All remaining 13 floors will be 13'5". Each slab between floors is the usual 7.5". In total that brings the building to 203 feet plus a 8 foot high roof brings it to 211 feet... and those are just assumed numbers... so this could easily and very well be 214 feet.

Austinlee Nov 12, 2012 8:42 PM

:cool: <--- I got sunglasses. Not because the tower is cool like fonzi, it's just so BRIGHT.

summersm343 Nov 14, 2012 12:56 AM

According to Wallace, Roberts & Todd's website, groundbreaking for this is next Monday.

http://www.wrtdesign.com/

summersm343 Nov 20, 2012 4:55 PM

Article on this today

http://www.philly.com/philly/educati...at_Temple.html

summersm343 Nov 20, 2012 8:09 PM

11/20/2012

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...47422769_n.jpg

hammersklavier Nov 21, 2012 12:06 AM

The new render actually shows a modest improvement...Annoying that WRT removed the old ones from its site...


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