PHILADELPHIA | uCity Square Future Phases | 4 towers | 17, 17, 16, & 15 FLOORS
The University City Science Center and Wexford Science and Technology will build uCity Square on the old site of the University City High School. Total build out for the site will include 4 million square feet of office/lab/commercial, retail and residential space across 10 buildings. Four building will top 12 or more floors, the remaining six buildings will rise 4 to 10 floors in height.
uCity Square Office Tower 1: 17 floors uCity Square Office Tower 2: 16 floors uCity Square Office Tower 3: 16 floors uCity Square Hotel Tower: 15 floors http://cdn.phillymag.com/wp-content/...6th-Aerial.jpg http://cdn.phillymag.com/wp-content/...el-937x705.jpg http://cdn.phillymag.com/wp-content/...8th-Aerial.jpg http://ucitysquare.com/ Title: uCity Square Project: Office Space, Commercial space, lab space, retail, residential, elementary school, green space Architect: ZGF Architects Developer: University City Science center and Wexford Science & Technology Location: Between 36th, 38th, Filbert and Powelton Ave, Philadelphia, PA Neighborhood: University City District: West Philadelphia Floors: 17, 16, 16, 15 floors Height: ?? feet Quote:
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I'm a little confused. I didn't see any mention of the specific floor count or number of buildings that are going to be constructed now. I read it as more of a long term plan. Where did the "4 towers | 27, 15, 13 & 12 FLOORS" come from?
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North of Filbert, there look to be 10 buildings. The floor counts for the buildings look like 27, 15, 13, 12, 10, 10, 8, 6, 4, 4. We'll see what the official numbers are when they move forward. |
Hip to be uCity Square: Science Center Unveils Vision, New Name
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I have to think this is being developed with at least one or two somewhat sizeable tenants in mind.
Penn has a lot of partnerships brewing with Novartis and other pharmaceutical companies from what I know from my personal relationships (i.e. friends who are scientists at Penn). The partnerships are focused on commercialization of discoveries made in Penn Labs...I have to think that there is enough productive work being done in these labs at this point that there might be critical mass to co-locate pharma space nearby to keep the company scientists close to the academics. This has already happened in Cambridge with Novartis, Sanofi, and others who have only opened facilities in that area in the past ten years and now employ literally thousands. I just checked and Novartis has almost 3,000 employees in Cambridge. Sanofi has 1,600. Biogen has 2,600 and Pfizer has 1,000. MIT and Harvard were about 10-15 years ahead of Penn in establishing these relationships. In fact, I recall when Novartis built their first building in Cambridge...it may have been only 8 years ago. Something is definitely happening. And it could be huge. I don't think this contiguous space is being lined up for a bunch of small scale start ups (although that's needed as well). I think these massive blocks are being assembled/proposed/pitched with particular companies in mind. Here's to hoping. Now for Google. Time for them to open an office in town as well. Maybe Comcast can help with that. |
Can't wait for this whole thing to be built out, even though it's a long way off. Hope the design remains the same. I can only think that this will accelerate the increase in land values in Powelton and Mantua, making the capping of the railyards more feasible in the long term future. Hopefully this, and the various other tracts of land in UCity, will absorb office and residential growth over the next 30 years, and then we'll FINALLY be ready for the railyards.
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Massive $1B uCity Square Project Could Benefit Community
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Nashville developer selected to build first UCity Square apartment building
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Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/busines...QdLjDHKPPUD.99 |
A lot of machinery on site
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Not sure if they're actually getting ready to build anything or if they're just prepping the site, but work in progress signs are up.
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If the "Work in Progress" sign states an anticipated complete date as Fall 2015, I'm pretty sure it's not construction of anything.
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Hey Summersm, I'm a long-time lurker. I was wondering if you could link the other u-city square threads to this main thread, so it would be easier to get a full picture of the project.
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Wow. I havent been past here in over 2 years. Things are getting serious on this project, this is going to be crazy.
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I don't see anything in the renders that appears close to 27 stories. What am I missing?
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This project alone makes me want to invest in Mantua
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For instance, 3737 Market has 17' ceilings. Assuming this office building would be the same (same developers, architects), that means this building would be 255 feet tall. Residential buildings on the other hand, usually have 10 foot ceilings, which means we're likely looking around 270 feet for the residential building. |
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