PHILADELPHIA | Highrise Development Thread X

[summersm343]

Whelp, update on 20th and Arch office building. Looks like Tenant is from out of state, which is huge because it could open up the possibility of Chubb going to 21st and Market or Schuylkill Yards

2000 Arch Street, Parkway Corporation. Robert Zirinsky presenting. Parkway Corporation has a 47 year history in Philadelphia and has 450 employees. This development (a LEED Platinum project) presents a once in a lifetime opportunity. They propose to build an office building for a single tenant who will commit to a 20 year lease. Parkway has held four meetings with near neighbors. The property (the old Avis parking lot) is zoned CMX 4. Parkway needs an-ordinance (not a variance) for an overlay height restriction relief. The historic gas station along 20th Street will be restored, relocated and funded for future maintenance. The new tenant is an out of state corporation; they are asking for no relief for existing signage restrictions. Parkway has entered into an agreement with Walden Walk as of today, to provide them amongst other things a private, funded, buffer outdoor space. They will continue to “mature our design process”. Renderings of the green wall, sky plane (step back) as of right, mechanical shields on top and sight visual impacts on adjacent buildings (Kennedy House) were shown. Numerous questions were asked about construction and delivery hours, solar shade studies and the impact on near by buildings (sight lines). Parkway noted that it will provide constant access (phone numbers) for near neighbors to address construction related issues (no deliveries between 10 pm and 5 am) and that it will enter into an NDA with LSNA. Construction is expected to take 14 months.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&p...mNlMzIyZjgzNjI

[DudeGuy]

Wow, that's great news!

[summersm343]

Wrong thread.

[dreadnought]

Originally Posted by summersm343

Whelp, update on 20th and Arch office building. Looks like Tenant is from out of state, which is huge because it could open up the possibility of Chubb going to 21st and Market or Schuylkill Yards



https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&p...mNlMzIyZjgzNjI

"Historic gas station"? not exactly Independence Hall, though, is it?

[3rd&Brown]

Originally Posted by summersm343

Whelp, update on 20th and Arch office building. Looks like Tenant is from out of state, which is huge because it could open up the possibility of Chubb going to 21st and Market or Schuylkill Yards



https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&p...mNlMzIyZjgzNjI

That's from the Spring, though, no? Could it just be that they're calling Ace/Chubb out of state as a sort of smoke and mirrors? One half of the two companies pre-merger was out of state.

[jsbrook]

Originally Posted by summersm343

Whelp, update on 20th and Arch office building. Looks like Tenant is from out of state, which is huge because it could open up the possibility of Chubb going to 21st and Market or Schuylkill Yards



https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&p...mNlMzIyZjgzNjI

Nice!

[acenturi]

Originally Posted by summersm343

Whelp, update on 20th and Arch office building. Looks like Tenant is from out of state, which is huge because it could open up the possibility of Chubb going to 21st and Market or Schuylkill Yards
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&p...mNlMzIyZjgzNjI

An interesting bit of this lot's history, particularly the Gas Station.
https://hiddencityphila.org/2015/03/...-logan-square/

[arkitect13]

Originally Posted by SEFTA

It would definitely fill a big hole in the area.
red represent recent proposals including the south end of East Market Development

1180 Sansom Street 2

if you dont mind me asking does anyone know what the website is called that you use to make these rough renderings or how to do them

[arkitect13]

Originally Posted by mcgrath618

Holy crap that looks great! Especially if that Brandywine tower across the street is going up!

sadly i think it bit the dust

[arkitect13]

Originally Posted by hammersklavier

The Goodyear and Subway on the site recently closed down and there's a conditional zoning permit there as well. The permit says the building is to be 96 stories high.

The developer must be confident, to have kicked the existing tenants out already.

Is their an article to link this?
96 stories would be amazing for the city tallest in the city and maybe one of the tallest or the tallest in the country

[Boku]

Originally Posted by arkitect13

Is their an article to link this?
96 stories would be amazing for the city tallest in the city and maybe one of the tallest or the tallest in the country

It's a typo, it's actually 196 stories tall.

[iheartphilly]

Re: Chocolate Marble Cake bldg (former Aramark Tower)

Men continuing their hard at work putting up Jefferson name. Looks good on the bldg now called Jefferson Tower.

[hammersklavier]

Originally Posted by Boku

It's a typo, it's actually 196 stories tall.

Nah, it's a space elevator that'll stretch 96% of the way to the Moon.

[Jawnadelphia]

Originally Posted by iheartphilly

Re: Chocolate Marble Cake bldg (former Aramark Tower)

Men continuing their hard at work putting up Jefferson name. Looks good on the bldg now called Jefferson Tower.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B5VXep8ggCo/

[Jayfar]

Originally Posted by iheartphilly

Re: Chocolate Marble Cake bldg (former Aramark Tower)

Men continuing their hard at work putting up Jefferson name. Looks good on the bldg now called Jefferson Tower.

Sorry, but you're behind the times. The name on the marquee signage (not yet installed when I passed by on Friday) is now to be "JEFFERSON CENTER," NOT TOWER.

https://li.phila.gov/#details?entity...%20MARKET%20ST

Permit Number
1010190
Application Type
ZONING/USE PERMIT
Permit Type
Z/U/S-ACCESSORY SIGNS
Date Issued
Wed Oct 09 2019
Work Description
FOR THE REPLACEMENT OF TWO (2) ACCESSORY, STATICALLY ILLUMINATED MARQUEE SIGNS (SIGN #2 ON PLANS; CHANGING COPY FROM "JEFFERSON TOWER" TO "JEFFERSON CENTER") ATOP THE MARQUEES OVER THE MARKET ST AND 11TH ST ENTRANCES TO AN EXISTING ATTACHED STRUCTURE, SIZE AND LOCATION AS SHOWN ON PLAN/APPLICATION; NO CHANGES TO ALL OTHER PREVIOUSLY APPROVED AND EXISTING SIGNS FROM AP#980027. SIGNS ACCESSORY TO ALL USES WITHIN THE EXISTING ATTACHED STRUCTURE.

[iheartphilly]

^
Ha! Thanks for keeping us in check and update to date.

[Knight Hospitaller]

Originally Posted by hammersklavier

Nah, it's a space elevator that'll stretch 96% of the way to the Moon.

One has to walk the rest of the way.

[Aaamazarite]

Originally Posted by Jayfar

JEFFERSON CENTER

Not to be confused with 1015 Chestnut, known as the Jefferson Building since the 1940s despite Jefferson never owning it, though it has leased space there since then. The original name of the building was the Shakespeare Building.

[Hrytsyu]

Originally Posted by hammersklavier

Nah, it's a space elevator that'll stretch 96% of the way to the Moon.

At that rate it is quite inappropriate to continue discussion of proposed space elevator on the skyscraper page.

[Busy Bee]

Originally Posted by Jawnadelphia

https://www.instagram.com/p/B5VXep8ggCo/

Movin on up...