PHILADELPHIA | Lowrise/General Developments Thread

[1487]

Originally Posted by Londonee

Does anyone know if Love Park reno is full speed ahead? I walked by there early last week and there wasn't a single sign of activity and there didn't seem to be a ton of progress made.

Is there daily construction activity and I just caught it on a weird day, or is this thing waiting for some state $$ to hit the coffers before construction begins in earnest?

There hasn't been daily activity for a while. There are numerous reasons, more than what has been announced to the press. Activity should pick up soon however.

[Jawnadelphia]

Glad to hear Love Park will be starting up again.

Side note--

Here's one of the new bus stops people were talking about a few pages back - I don't think anyone posted a pic of one:


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[Yurkek]

Originally Posted by Londonee

Does anyone know if Love Park reno is full speed ahead? I walked by there early last week and there wasn't a single sign of activity and there didn't seem to be a ton of progress made.

Is there daily construction activity and I just caught it on a weird day, or is this thing waiting for some state $$ to hit the coffers before construction begins in earnest?

They double fenced it last week and this week there are excavators working there. It looks like the project is back on track.

[Knight Hospitaller]

Originally Posted by TallCoolOne

Glad to hear Love Park will be starting up again.

Side note--

Here's one of the new bus stops people were talking about a few pages back - I don't think anyone posted a pic of one:


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Dull as dishwater.

[summersm343]

4514-22 Woodland Ave - University of the Sciences Dormitory - dorm/retail - 6 floors









CDR Submission PDF:
http://www.phila.gov/CityPlanning/pr...te_reduced.pdf

[Knight Hospitaller]

^ What's going on with the arched "window" at one corner? is that some sort of mural of bills posted permanently askew?

[summersm343]

Originally Posted by Knight Hospitaller

^ What's going on with the arched "window" at one corner? is that some sort of mural of bills posted permanently askew?

May be a partial preservation of the existing school building on site.

[Knight Hospitaller]

Originally Posted by summersm343

May be a partial preservation of the existing school building on site.

Existing mural?

[gdhenry23]

Originally Posted by Knight Hospitaller

Existing mural?

Yep.

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9438...7i13312!8i6656

[Knight Hospitaller]

Originally Posted by gdhenry23

Yep.

Thanks. Looks like the only part of the building worth incorporating!

[3rd&Brown]

Originally Posted by Knight Hospitaller

Thanks. Looks like the only part of the building worth incorporating!

Overall, it's a great addition for that spot. Should really enliven that stretch of Woodland Avenue.

[eixample]

Target was mobbed so I only breezed through without looking closely at anything. Good size and more food than I thought there'd be. Toys, pharmacy stuff, clothes -- they really packed a lot in. It runs all the way from Chestnut to Sansom and is narrower than I thought. Only bad part about this project is that damn surface lot. There isn't going to be a Target lot at the 19th and Chestnut location, right?

[1487]

Originally Posted by eixample

Target was mobbed so I only breezed through without looking closely at anything. Good size and more food than I thought there'd be. Toys, pharmacy stuff, clothes -- they really packed a lot in. It runs all the way from Chestnut to Sansom and is narrower than I thought. Only bad part about this project is that damn surface lot. There isn't going to be a Target lot at the 19th and Chestnut location, right?

yes

[Mikieman]

Anyone know what's happening at the site bordered by 5th and 6th, Ban Franklin Bridge and Race. They completed about 95% of the demo, then up and left well over a month ago. Nothing since.

[Knight Hospitaller]

Originally Posted by Mikieman

Anyone know what's happening at the site bordered by 5th and 6th, Ban Franklin Bridge and Race. They completed about 95% of the demo, then up and left well over a month ago. Nothing since.

Hopefully nothing.

[1487]

Originally Posted by Mikieman

Anyone know what's happening at the site bordered by 5th and 6th, Ban Franklin Bridge and Race. They completed about 95% of the demo, then up and left well over a month ago. Nothing since.

supposed to be an apt building on that site where a warehouse stood.

[Londonee]

Originally Posted by Knight Hospitaller

Dull as dishwater.

Yeah. Ya know how at Home Depot you can buy paint brushes in 3 categories - good, better, best - at significantly rising price points? I think that's the type of catalogue we buy our street furniture from. Paris and Chicago? Best. New York, better. Philly and Cleveland? Good. There's absolutely nothing interesting or nice about them other than the fact that they're not rusted out and painted hospital death green.

[Redddog]

Originally Posted by Mikieman

Anyone know what's happening at the site bordered by 5th and 6th, Ban Franklin Bridge and Race. They completed about 95% of the demo, then up and left well over a month ago. Nothing since.

Yeah, the consensus was that the project going in to that space is butt ugly. The dirt patch is nicer to look at than the proposed property.

[Larry King]

Originally Posted by Londonee

Yeah. Ya know how at Home Depot you can buy paint brushes in 3 categories - good, better, best - at significantly rising price points? I think that's the type of catalogue we buy our street furniture from. Paris and Chicago? Best. New York, better. Philly and Cleveland? Good. There's absolutely nothing interesting or nice about them other than the fact that they're not rusted out and painted hospital death green.

What do you want? it's a bus stop

[Knight Hospitaller]

Originally Posted by Larry King

What do you want? it's a bus stop

Like the man said: There are bus stops, and then there are Paris bus stops. Form follows function (and nothing more) is a little tired.