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Awesome! Someone get a photo. If it's caisson installation, we'll move this one to under construction.
How can we be sure this is the correct site. This is a very confusing location with three projects started at once. The new Drexel medical building is drilling next door
     
     
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Old Posted Sep 20, 2020, 4:32 PM
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How can we be sure this is the correct site. This is a very confusing location with three projects started at once. The new Drexel medical building is drilling next door
I mean I got a good look at the site and I know how’s it’s supposed to lay out. I could distinctly see work being done on both sites, the Drexel building on the east side of 37th, and this site on the west side. But I was driving so I couldn’t get a photo.
     
     
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Old Posted Sep 20, 2020, 4:49 PM
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Some renderings from the architect, ZGF:





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How can we be sure this is the correct site. This is a very confusing location with three projects started at once. The new Drexel medical building is drilling next door
If you know the site layout, it's pretty clear what's going where.

Here's the site plan, which clearly labels where One uCity Square will sit, as well as the 3700 Lancaster Ave apartment building. The new Elementary school and new Drexel highrise are the gray shapes immediately to the right of this:

https://ucitysquare.com/wp-content/t.../site-plan.pdf
     
     
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I mean I got a good look at the site and I know how’s it’s supposed to lay out. I could distinctly see work being done on both sites, the Drexel building on the east side of 37th, and this site on the west side. But I was driving so I couldn’t get a photo.
Thanks for clarifying. I visited the site several times and am still not sure what is going where.
     
     
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Old Posted Sep 22, 2020, 1:51 AM
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This video of uCity Square is awesome:

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=37...ZGmk1FIVZWmXxz
     
     
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Well shiver me timbers-- building permit WAS issued. I saw a crane being erected at the UCity Square site from very far away over the weekend, I was too far away to tell what building it was for.

https://li.phila.gov/#details?entity...0N%2038TH%20ST
     
     
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Well shiver me timbers-- building permit WAS issued. I saw a crane being erected at the UCity Square site from very far away over the weekend, I was too far away to tell what building it was for.

https://li.phila.gov/#details?entity...0N%2038TH%20ST
Interesting, Drexel is the owner, period. I sortof wonder why they would build here and not in the SY's development.
This is 14 stories with 329 underground parking spots.
     
     
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Interesting, Drexel is the owner, period. I sortof wonder why they would build here and not in the SY's development.
This is 14 stories with 329 underground parking spots.
They have a different development partner here. Wexford/Ventas instead of Brandywine.
     
     
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Well shiver me timbers-- building permit WAS issued. I saw a crane being erected at the UCity Square site from very far away over the weekend, I was too far away to tell what building it was for.

https://li.phila.gov/#details?entity...0N%2038TH%20ST
Is this for One or Two uCity Square?
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Is this for One or Two uCity Square?
One.
     
     
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One.
Are you sure? The address the permit is assigned to looks like it's for 2 uCity Square.
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Address does make it seem like it's for Two uCity Square, but maybe because it's such a large parcel?

I'm assuming the permits are for One uCity Square though, which is a good sign either way. Build it!
     
     
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Well shiver me timbers-- building permit WAS issued. I saw a crane being erected at the UCity Square site from very far away over the weekend, I was too far away to tell what building it was for.

https://li.phila.gov/#details?entity...0N%2038TH%20ST
Probably for the new Drexel building? That's gotta be far enough along now to warrant a tower crane.
     
     
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Are you sure? The address the permit is assigned to looks like it's for 2 uCity Square.
That's because it isn't showing up as subdivided yet on Atlas. The descriptions match One UCity Square.
     
     
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Passed by the site today-- the crane is for the apartment building
     
     
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Passed by the site today-- the crane is for the apartment building
3700 Lancaster? Forgot that one was going up too!
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Drove by yesterday, but didn't have time to take a photo. This is absolutely under construction

Heavy machinery on site including excavators and drilling rigs, and there is loads of rebar/caissons on site and they're installing caissons now.
     
     
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Link to an awesome video posted on the Vimeo of this building:
https://vimeo.com/386303157/0cc1d190...esF08eQ2KMgmqI
     
     
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More Than Just Real Estate
Institutional developments reach beyond their walls to catalyze urban communities


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Philadelphia: Poster Child

Philadelphia’s University City, so named for its proximity and connections to the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University, has witnessed an evolution that roughly parallels its emergence as a leader in medical technologies, most recently cell and gene therapies.

“West Philadelphia,” says Grady, “is a good example where both residential and commercial communities are going through that transition.”

Wexford’s uCity Square is a 14-acre (5.6-hectare), 6.5-million-sq-ft. (600,000-sq.-m.) mixed-use community that provides laboratory, research and office amenities to 22 institutions in the cell and gene space. They include a new anchor tenant, New Jersey-based Amicus Therapeutics, which is leveraging a partnership with Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine.

With 45,000 sq. ft. (4,180 sq. m.) of green space currently going in, Wexford and partners Ventas and University City Science Center also have broken ground on One uCity Square. In a show of abundant faith, the 400,000-sq.-ft. (37,160-sq.-m.) project, which is to include robust lab space, is going up speculatively. Wexford also is collaborating on a new academic tower for the Drexel School of Medicine, a nearby middle school and a 460-unit residential complex.
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