PHILADELPHIA | Lowrise/General Developments Thread

[wondertwinalpha]

http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelp...-building.html

[summersm343]

Originally Posted by wondertwinalpha

http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelp...-building.html

Nice! Looks like the name is officially "The Dalian on Fairmount" and the groundbreaking is scheduled for this fall.

[philatonian]

Originally Posted by Insoluble

I really like the way this has the feel of three separate narrower buildings. Narrow street fronts make for a much better pedestrian feel. This fits in nicely with the White building to the West. I'd love to see more projects like this in the Market East area.

Agreed. It's not the most banging' design but splitting it up into three vertical elements makes it feel taller, like it belongs in the city.

[shadowbat2]

^I believe Brickstone bought the building with the three arches to the left, and are trying to acquire others on that block as well. I'm wondering of the newly purchased property will be used to expand this development eastward, meaning a design change could be in order? That could explain why this is taking long (steel piles for excavation are in place but the buildings are still up). On the other hand they could just keep this as is and build a new project next door. Anyone have inside info on what's going on here?

[Aaamazarite]

This is a newer rendering-- Shadowbat is right, they are also trying to get the property east of this.

[shadowbat2]

Ohh yeah I think I've seen that one posted here as well a while back. Thanks

BTW I read that Brickstone is buying a bunch of rundown buildings in the area, several of which were profiled on your site haha....

[shadowbat2]

Taken today:

15th and Walnut:


Project Home:


Aq Rittenhouse:


Eighth Street "parking plaza" renovations (slowly but surely):





(kinda liked that tile....)

[philatonian]

Originally Posted by shadowbat2

Taken today:

Whoa, what's Project Home? I thought that parking lot would be there forever.

*EDIT: Just looked it up. That's great new! That block desperately needs some life.

[Philly Fan]

Looks like this is almost--if not already--topped out (apologies if this previously has been posted):



http://www.facilities.upenn.edu/maps...ut-street-3901

[1487]

that AQ rittenhouse site has looked about the same for a couple of weeks it seems. I wonder why not much vertical action is taking place there.

[summersm343]

Can this be combined with the General Developments thread?

Looks like the old hotel site has been fenced off. Demo work should begin soon.

http://www.ocfrealty.com/sites/www.o...st%20fence.JPG


And another article on this:
http://philly.curbed.com/archives/20...cial-boost.php

[Kidphilly]

As the SRT continues to get better and the area around the river fills in - Would love to see some sort of a restaurant structure/lounge/bar right here. Wonder if the bridge could support an extension to the Southside of Market

just a crazy thought

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9544...70V5JHVBkw!2e0


also why I am on wish lists - I think 11th street between Washington and Bainbridge could use more development - including more restaurant frontage - sidewalks could be extended to make quite a festive outdoor area given the street width and bring back the 23 trolley - but take into the Pennsy cut and out to CH using the current RR line and long fairmont park on the northside

[summersm343]

AQ Rittenhouse update from Naked Philly

http://www.ocfrealty.com/naked-phill...hestnut-street

[1487]

Originally Posted by summersm343

AQ Rittenhouse update from Naked Philly

http://www.ocfrealty.com/naked-phill...hestnut-street

yeah its looked like that for a while now. I think those beams have been there 2 weeks or more.

[Aaamazarite]

7/22/14

Sugarhouse Expansion-related



East Laurel St. looking west from Frankford Ave



East Laurel St. looking east from Front



Front and Ellen St looking east. There seem to be new foundations next to the billboard



New Market and West Laurel



Front and Fairmount



Future home of One Water Street



Front and Quarry St



Front and Church



American Revolution Center

[josef]

Originally Posted by Aaamazarite

Various photos.

It's crazy how many random homes are being built around Front Street in that miscellaneous part of Northern Liberties. Those green-wrapped homes, you see those on the El between Spring Garden and Girard. That's some healthy infill.

And speaking of Old City, I saw this the other day walking to the Harbor Park. Seems like it's this lot at the corner of Hancock and Walnut.





Also about old city! Anyone know how long the buildings going up on the lot in front of the red building here been under construction? I see them from the El and PATCO, and they seem like they've been going up forever.

[rricci]

Originally Posted by 1487

yeah its looked like that for a while now. I think those beams have been there 2 weeks or more.

Can AQ Rittenhouse get its own thread? It's predicted to be 12 floors which I believe to be the minimum number.

[bopoqod]

Maybe the answer is already on here somewhere else, but does anyone know why City Hall doesn't show up on the Philadelphia skyscraper diagram (http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=326)?

It's on the timeline diagram (http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?...hname=timeline), so clearly the problem isn't that nobody's ever drawn it, but for some reason it's missing from the general diagram, even though it's the ninth tallest building in the city (for now anyway... it'll be 11th after CITC and FMC are done).

I feel like I can't have been the first one to notice this, so maybe there's a reason, it just seems weird that it's missing, especially since it was Philly's de facto height limit for such a long time.

[summersm343]

Originally Posted by bopoqod

It's on the timeline diagram (http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?...hname=timeline), so clearly the problem isn't that nobody's ever drawn it, but for some reason it's missing from the general diagram, even though it's the ninth tallest building in the city (for now anyway... it'll be 11th after CITC and FMC are done)

And will be bumped down to 13th once SLS and W are done

[summersm343]

PS. Thanks for the awesome waterfront updates Aaamazarite! Wow the waterfront is booming. It's really gonna be a great place in a couple of years if this pace continues.