PHILADELPHIA-CAMDEN-WILMINGTON-ATLANTIC CITY-READING | Metro Development Thread

[Sgalla04]

Originally Posted by Slyfox

Also I wish the SEPTA ran on weekends, as I understand it, it's only a weekday commuter train. I want to take it at 6PM Friday , head to a bar and return at 2AM Saturday morning, or at least at 11AM on a Saturday to a museum or restaurant.

SEPTA runs to the station at 100 French St, Wilmington, DE 19801 on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. Limited on Sat. & Sun. Last train back on a Friday is 12:48 AM and on Sat/Sun is 8:40 PM. It does not go to Churchman's Crossing and Newark station at all on weekends, or late night (after 8 PM) on Fridays.

http://www.septa.org/schedules/rail/w/WIL_0.html

[Jawnadelphia]

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[Justin7]

Originally Posted by summersm343

Anything happening in Collingswood, Haddonfield, etc.?

Nothing major, but a chef who worked at Zeppoli and then Vernick is putting up this this nicely designed (by Ambit) 3 floor restaurant/condo building on what was a vacant lot in Collingswood.

http://www.ambitarchitecture.com/pro...haddon-avenue/

[Nova08]

Originally Posted by 3rd&Brown

I think the project you are talking about is actually in Haddon Township near the Westmont Train Station.

Haddon Township, which is lovely, I think has felt left out of the party between Collingswood and Haddonfield. Thus, it is trying to make it's main street near the train station more urban and walkable.

Yes, across from the Westmont train station and walkable to at least 5 restaurants. It's a pretty big complex. Six buildings and the buildings that face Haddon Ave. will have retail.

The complex takes up this entire block, fields, temporary parking and all:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ha...!4d-75.0497448

[Mappy]

Collingswood:
- currently has a 3 story mixed use project under construction with a ground floor restaurant and condo/apt above it (mentioned above) in the center of town.
- McFarlands Market from Merchantville is buildings their second grocery store in the center of Collingswood too. It has had long delays for remediations, utility upgrades, and contractor schedules, but might be open sometime in 2017

Haddon Township / Westmont:
- the old Westmont theater just finished renovations and conversion to a new Planet Fitness.

- The Haddon "Towne Center" that will have 255 apartments, and only 12,000 sqft of retail is the big development that is under construction. I'd encourage anyone interested to go have a look and see how NOT to design TOD. 80% of the ground level frontage on Haddon Ave is apartments with large windows just a few feet from the sidewalk. All the buildings not fronting Haddon Ave are built on top of a parking podium open on all sides, and the entire. I believe there is a 1:1.70 parking ratio, and the center of the development is a large parking lot accessible by two driveways, and the large development has no through-streets. But it does include a club house and pool (even though the township's public pool is a 5 minute (1/4 mile) walk away.

[Slyfox]

Originally Posted by Nomad9

Is that 2% the wilmington city tax or is that specific to the riverfront?

City-wide.

I haven't looked in 3 years, so it may have gone up.... I'd like to say "or down", but taxes never do...

[Slyfox]

Originally Posted by Sgalla04

SEPTA runs to the station at 100 French St, Wilmington, DE 19801 on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. Limited on Sat. & Sun. Last train back on a Friday is 12:48 AM and on Sat/Sun is 8:40 PM. It does not go to Churchman's Crossing and Newark station at all on weekends, or late night (after 8 PM) on Fridays.

http://www.septa.org/schedules/rail/w/WIL_0.html

Thank you!

I must have mixed Newark with the Wilmington City Station. What site/link did you get the schedule from? I've tried finding it on Septa.

[Sgalla04]

Originally Posted by Slyfox

Thank you!

I must have mixed Newark with the Wilmington City Station. What site/link did you get the schedule from? I've tried finding it on Septa.

The schedule link is above the pic I posted.

[1487]

latest issue of philly mag has an article about suburban towns and areas like K of P trying to become more urban to attract the folks who are drawn to the benefits of urban living. Not sure if it's online.

[domodeez]

Wilmington Downtown Residence Inn - 1300 Market

We have windows.



website says opening June 2017 http://www.marriott.com/hotels/trave...gton-downtown/

[domodeez]

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[domodeez]

Originally Posted by OSJ825

First time post: Could this be it?
From: Architectural Alliance



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Yes this is it

[domodeez]

Originally Posted by Slyfox

I will say, if it didn't have a 2% income tax I'd be tempted to move to the Riverfront or the two high rises on the river. Also I wish the SEPTA ran on...

Wage tax is 1.25% not 2%

As for SEPTA, you're preaching to the choir. Service has gotten better the past 2 years with added weekday late(ish)night connections to Philly but has much room to improve.

[jonesrmj]

Originally Posted by domodeez

Wilmington Downtown Residence Inn - 1300 Market

We have windows.



website says opening June 2017 http://www.marriott.com/hotels/trave...gton-downtown/

Just wondering, when do you think they will start modifying the exterior walls? I kind of like the way it will look when they change it.

[summersm343]

Icahn selling Taj Mahal to Hard Rock; A.C. mayor calls for more investment

A buyer has emerged for the Carl Icahn-owned Taj Mahal – a group of investors led by Hard Rock International – in a deal that the Atlantic City Mayor Don Guardian says is the latest piece in the rebirth of the resort town.

Icahn, the 80-year-old activist investor who acquired the Taj out of bankruptcy court, announced late Wednesday a definitive agreement to sell the shuttered casino.

"All the pieces are coming back together one by one," he said. “Having professional investors like the Hard Rock International group invest in the Taj Mahal will reinvigorate that end of the boardwalk, which includes the Showboat and the Steel Pier. This is also great news for the entire South Inlet and all the projects going on there, like the Boraie housing development project and the reconnection of the boardwalk all the way to Gardner’s Basin."

"Now is the time to invest in our great city," he continued. "The price is right. We need to bring back thousands of jobs for our Atlantic City residents and for South Jersey. Today’s announcement is a great step in that direction."

http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelp...dian-acnj.html

[summersm343]

UHS unit to open billing office in Chester County, hire 50 people

Read more here:
http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelp...ce-hiring.html

[summersm343]

Home Depot plans to add 1,500 employees this spring in Greater Philadelphia

Read more here:
http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelp...yees-this.html

[summersm343]

The first new marine terminal in 50 years on the Delaware River opens in Paulsboro

The sun shone brightly on Paulsboro Thursday, where the first ship, the Doric Warrior, was docked at the new Paulsboro Marine Terminal on the Delaware River and 55,000 tons of steel slabs were being unloaded, headed to mills in Western Pennsylvania and Indiana.

N.J. officials, and representatives from the port community, local businesses and the terminal’s first tenant, an international steel company, gathered to celebrate the opening of the first new marine terminal in 50 years on the Delaware.

The 190 acres, directly across from Philadelphia International Airport, includes 21,000 feet of new rail track, an 850-foot wharf with two more berths planned, and a $23 million bridge over Mantua Creek that takes traffic directly from Interstate 295 to the riverfront.

n 2014, Holt Logistics was selected by South Jersey Port Corp. to be the Paulsboro terminal operator. The Holt family handles refrigerated and break-bulk cargoes at nearby Gloucester City terminal and they run the Packer Avenue Marine Terminal in South Philadelphia.

Norfolk Southern, whose trains will transport the steel to Farrell, Pa., and Portage, Ind., helped design the rail track which extends onto the wharf.

The Paulsboro terminal employs 40 to 50 currently, but the target over time will be close to 200, Leo Holt said.

In the last 24 months, 185 Gloucester County residents have been employed with Holt Logistics through training and hiring programs. “Today from Gloucester County we probably have 110 to 115 working in our system" in southern New Jersey, he said.

Read more here:
http://www.philly.com/philly/busines...Paulsboro.html

[summersm343]

Accolade Inc. to add 250 jobs in Plymouth Meeting

Read more here:
http://www.philly.com/philly/busines...h-Meeting.html

[skiesthelimit]

UD Creamery to open in Wilmington with more on menu

http://www.delawareonline.com/story/...gton/98587298/

WilmU to start building Concord Pike campus
http://www.delawareonline.com/story/...mpus/98489582/

Hhgregg closing all 3 Delaware stores, 85 other sites
http://www.delawareonline.com/story/...ores/98648488/