Has anyone seen a rendering of this yet? We have floor counts, height estimates, budgets finalized--but no one has publicly scene what this thing is going to look like?

Good enough for me. Much respect for coming on here and responding to criticism in the manner that you did. I'm not sure I could have kept my composure like that.

I admit I was annoyed at the W brand for seemingly dangling their hotels in front of the city for the past few years, but I love this hotel idea and am all for it. It's such a great location too.

Article about why the W Hotel will be constructed, even with the current hotel owners in the banning against it
http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelp...n-w-hotel.html

Another article on this:

http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelp...tudy-on-w.html

Corbett giving $20 million to Lenfest.....
 

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/i...l-project.html

No Doubt now. The building is coming.

This is great news! :cheers:

anddddd City Council approves $33 mill TIF subsidy for the W Hotel :cheers:

So $33 mill from the city and $20 mill from the state. Looks like the W Hotel construction is a definite!! :tup::tup::notacrook::notacrook:

http://planphilly.com/articles/2013/...dy-for-w-hotel

Adding hotel rooms to the city is always a good thing. I can't wait for this thing to get built.

Another article about this:

http://philly.curbed.com/archives/20...hotel.php#more

So how long until we get renderings? :yes:

I wonder how the hotel will take to the kids congregating outside the Wendy's?

The article also mentions if approved by the full Council by November 21st (which is likely), construction should begin January 1st, 2014. I would imagine we will see renderings pretty soon.:notacrook:

That building was recently bought by another developer. I believe they're converting or renovating all of the upper floors and, when questioned about Wendy's, indicated they had to evaluate the changing rent on the block once they finished that conversion.

Obviously that leaves open the possibility that Wendy's stays, but it also might shift to take advantage of the proximity to a the tourist draw of love park, city hall, the new plaza and the ritz/W hotel developments.

Getting rid of the wendy's would help clean up that area a lot.

Another article on this:

http://nakedphilly.com/rittenhouse/e...dging-forward/

TIF financing approved for the W-hotel.:cheers:

http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelp...financing.html

See 6ABC video of W/Element Hotel in Philly. This video has a rendering of the building from Cope Linder.

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/video?id...77&pid=9358771 ;)

that rendering is shorter than we'd hoped. just clipping bill's hat would put this around 550 ft. 15th tallest in the city…not 6th. maybe thats not the final rendering. very good news tho.

The first rendering is a 1:03. So far it looks pretty good but I still want to see it in more detail.

Very cool. So this is clearly out in the media now. Anyone able to get their hands on a higher quality version?

I think this and the dilworth plaza are going to be serious improvements for this area. The next step is get the wendy's out of there.