PHILADELPHIA | Navy Yard Redevelopment | 10 towers | 205 - 150 FT | 15 - 12 FLOORS

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Title: Navy Yard Redevelopment
Project: Residential, hotel, office, lab, manufacturing, retail, commercial
Architect: Digsau
Developer: PIDC, Ensemble Real Estate & Mosaic Development
Location: A couple of dozen blocks encompassing 109+ acres in The Navy Yard in South Philadelphia
Neighborhood: The Navy Yard
District: South Philadelphia
Floors: 15, 15, 15, 15, 15, 13, 12, 12, 12 & 12
Height: 205, 195, 192, 188, 187, 163, 150, 150, 150 & 150 FT

Representing $350M of investment at the Navy Yard, Ensemble has amassed a substantial portfolio which it intends to leverage along with our experienced development team located onsite. Utilizing the surface parking lots of these assets to build parking structures for the new development, Ensemble can add more density on PAID owned land, uniquely positioning the Ensemble/Mosaic team to BUILD MORE BETTER FASTER. As a result of this strategy, Ensemble’s initial Phase includes, 600 residential units, 230 hotel rooms, 2 parking garages, and designing 175,000 sf of commercial office and life sciences space to immediately add not only new residents, but new jobs to the Navy Yard.

Site plan:

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PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT PLAN: PHASING PLAN

Ensemble/Mosaic’s phasing plan is one based on quickly creating a critical mass of residential, retail and amenity spaces coupled with immediate office and life sciences opportunities in an initial phase with future phases of mixed-use and life science development that capitalize on the Navy Yard’s momentum. Therefore, Ensemble/Mosaic intends to immediately commence a significant initial phase of development.

"Historic Core" Redevelopment Plan

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KITTY HAWK BLOCK

Envisioned to be developed in two phases; the north part of the block will contain a newly constructed mixeduse building including a two story podium with a groundlevel grocery store with dedicated parking on the second floor and 5 floors of residential above. The east side of the ground level will add small scale makerspace along the alley between the building and Building 624 offering an extension of Maker’s Row. The south portion of the block is envisioned to be the exclamation point on the Historic Core residential development – a 19 story residential tower on top of a podium. This tower development will retail along 13th Street and additional makerspace along the alley between the site and Building 624 promoting a connection of Marker’s Row to Building 611 and the waterfront.

Kitty Hawk South Tower Rendering

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Aerial view of Kitty Hawk Block and Kitty Hawk South Tower

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Section of Kitty Hawk South Tower and Building 624

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MUSTIN SOUTH DISTRICT

Capitalizing on the success of the Historic Core development where the retail and place leverage the Navy Yard’s ‘downtown’, the Mustin Waterfront will be a perfectly refined district where new buildings and spaces meet the water. The high design of the district’s buildings along with a robust retail and activation program featuring an abundance of restaurants, vibrant public spaces, and creative waterfront programing will make this Philadelphia’s most prized neighborhood.

Mustin South District Aerial

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Potential for 10+ total towers and 35+ buildings in total. At least ten of the currently proposed buildings will be over 12 floors, and over 150 feet tall. Estimated heights for each tower:

Historic Core Towers
205 FT - 15 FLOORS - HC-03 Residential Tower
195 FT - 15 FLOORS - HC-01 Residential Tower 1
192 FT - 15 FLOORS - HC-01 Residential Tower 2
188 FT - 15 FLOORS - HC-02 Residential Tower 1
187 FT - 15 FLOORS - HC-02 Residential Tower 2
163 FT - 13 FLOORS - W-10 Hotel Tower
150 FT - 12 FLOORS - W-11 Residential Tower
150 FT - 12 FLOORS - W-12 Residential Tower
105 FT - 12 FLOORS - W-13 Office Tower
105 FT - 12 FLOORS - W-13 Residential Tower

PDF link to Ensemble/Mosaic Proposal:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=...AAAAHQAAAAAQAw

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Additional renderings/images of the redevelopment project

Chapel Block of the Historic Core:

Screen Shot 2021-03-18 at 5.59.29 PM by Mr. Summers, on Flickr

Kitty Hawk Block of the Historic Core including Kitty Hawk South Tower on the far right:

Screen Shot 2021-03-18 at 5.59.09 PM by Mr. Summers, on Flickr

Mustin North District Aerial

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Mustin North District

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Mustin North District

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[Nova08]

All really awesome stuff. But I thought there was a height limit due to the airport flight path. The shipyard crane at 210 feet was once an issue.

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PIDC Selects Navy Yard Development Partner

PIDC, Philadelphia’s public-private economic development corporation, has selected a team comprised of Ensemble Real Estate Investments and Mosaic Development Partners as its development partner for 109 acres at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Selection of the Ensemble/Mosaic team is the culmination of a year-long competitive process that attracted interest from more than 35 development teams from across the country. The next phase of development will further establish the Navy Yard as a world-class business, manufacturing, R&D, and life sciences hub, and will include the creation of a vibrant mixed-use district including retail and makerspace. PIDC and the Ensemble/Mosaic team envision up to $2.6 billion of new private investment that will drive many thousands of new construction and permanent jobs.

“Today’s announcement marks a significant milestone for this long-term public-private partnership led by PIDC that has brought the Navy Yard from the uncertainty and job losses of the early 1990’s to a dynamic home to more than 175 companies and 15,000 employees,” said Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney. “The Navy Yard has fulfilled its initial promise of becoming a thriving center for business, innovation, investment, talent, and jobs, establishing itself as one of the city’s major engines of economic growth. The exciting new partnership with Ensemble/Mosaic will not only build on this track record, but will also bring new ideas and energy to the Navy Yard while ensuring that equity and inclusion are at the forefront of its next phase of development.”

“We are excited to join together with PIDC and Mosaic to achieve our collective vision of providing high-quality mixed-use and residential projects, compelling public spaces, and a nationally recognized Life Sciences campus that the city of Philadelphia can be proud of,” said Kam Babaoff, Chairman of Ensemble Real Estate Investments. “We recognize the immense responsibility it will be to steward the development of the Navy Yard so it can endure for the good of the community for generations to come. Our partnership with Mosaic, with their intimate local perspective, keen development expertise, and innovative approaches to engaging every demographic in Philadelphia, heightens this perspective and will greatly contribute to a successful development.”

Read/view more here:
https://www.navyyard.org/theyardblog...pment-partner/

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Philadelphia Navy Yard Development Team Releases Request for Proposals Seeking Firms to Update Master Plan

PIDC, Philadelphia’s public-private economic development corporation, in partnership with Ensemble Real Estate Investments and Mosaic Development Partners (“Ensemble/Mosaic”), has released a Request for Proposals (RFP) opportunity for large-scale comprehensive master planning at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. PIDC and Ensemble/Mosaic seek proposals from qualified, experienced, diverse, and inclusive planning, design, and engineering firms to develop and deliver a comprehensive master plan. The 2021 Navy Yard Master Plan Update will establish a dynamic, cohesive, and achievable placemaking vision and development framework as the Navy Yard embarks on its next phase of expansion and growth.

In July 2020, PIDC announced the selection of Ensemble/Mosaic as its development partner for 109 acres at the Navy Yard. Selection of the Ensemble/Mosaic team was the culmination of a year-long competitive process that attracted interest from more than 35 development teams from across the country. This next phase of development will further establish the Navy Yard as a world-class business destination with a focus as a life science hub including R&D and cGMP manufacturing space in addition to the creation of a vibrant residential mixed-use district including retail and makerspace. PIDC and the Ensemble/Mosaic team envision up to $2.6 billion of new private investment that will drive many thousands of new construction and permanent jobs.

The 2021 Update will reflect development that has occurred since the 2013 Navy Yard Master Plan Update, as well as incorporate and refine Ensemble/Mosaic’s conceptual plan for a new mixed-use program on 109 acres, including the first residential development at the Navy Yard. The 2021 Update will also include creative planning for PIDC-controlled sites, important common areas of the Navy Yard including the Broad Street gate, and public spaces and amenities. Efficient, sustainable infrastructure, multimodal transportation, and energy distribution systems will be critical components of the plan. The 2021 Update is expected to integrate each of these important features into a compelling and achievable framework that positions the Navy Yard to deliver a dynamic, expanded commercial and mixed-use campus with a distinctive, integrated sense of place that attracts businesses and creates a vibrant new multi-family residential community.

Read/view more here:
https://www.navyyard.org/theyardblog...e-master-plan/

[TonyTone]

Whats is the highest a building can be at the Navy Yard? Due to airport restrictions.

[summersm343]

Originally Posted by TonyTone

Whats is the highest a building can be at the Navy Yard? Due to airport restrictions.

Probably 200-250 FT as proposed. I would assume the PIDC and the selected development partners did their due diligence when drafting up this plan.

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New details emerge for $2.5B mixed-use development at Navy Yard

In an agreement with PIDC, the development team plans to focus its first phase of new construction on two life sciences buildings.

Can see a rendering in the link below of the first 2 new buildings. Article behind paywall here:
https://www.bizjournals.com/philadel..._8&cx_artPos=3

[Jawnadelphia]

wrong thread.

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New labs and offices to rise at Navy Yard as part of recently chosen team’s first $400M phase of development

Ensemble Real Estate Investments and Mosaic Development Partners are preparing to break ground on two new biotech buildings at the Navy Yard, their first projects since being selected last year to lead an expected $2.5 billion in fresh development over 109 acres of the former barracks in South Philadelphia.

The two life-science projects ― a lab and office building and a drug-manufacturing plant ― are part of a first phase of development under the deal that Ensemble and Mosaic struck with the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corp., which manages the Navy Yard on the city’s behalf.

That initial phase is expected to involve $400 million in new construction and to include the Navy Yard’s first residential properties, the companies and PIDC said in a release on Tuesday.

The team’s first new building is to be a three-story, 100,000-square-foot lab and office building that would rise at 1201 Normandy Place, near the Corporate Center Development, Ensemble and Mosaic said Tuesday.

It will be built as a “residulative” project, meaning that work will begin without having tenants lined up for the space, and is expected to be completed before the end of next year, the companies said.

Ensemble and Mosaic will also soon begin marketing another nearby property, at 333 Rouse Blvd., as a development site for life-science companies seeking a custom-built drug-manufacturing plant, the developers said.

That property can accommodate a facility of up to 120,000 square feet, they said.

The construction sites are near a 12-acre section of the Navy Yard that’s being called the Historic Core District, which PIDC has said would become the Navy Yard’s “downtown.”

The area, largely bounded by 11th and 12th Streets, between Flagship Avenue and Normandy Place, is seen as accommodating 1,000 to 1,500 apartments in restored buildings, along with restaurants and shops to serve residents and nearby office workers and lab techs, PIDC officials have said.

The other site in the new development push is being called the Mustin District, after the former Henry C. Mustin Naval Air Facility airfield that once occupied much of the tract. Its 97 acres extend east from League Island Boulevard.

Officials have said the district could support as much as three million square feet of new office, lab, and production space, emulating the Corporate Center’s atmosphere, and could also potentially accommodate residential buildings along its quarter-mile waterfront.

Read/view more here:
https://www.inquirer.com/business/en...23.html#loaded

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Life Sciences Buildings to Launch $400M Navy Yard Phase I

Two life sciences buildings will be among the first properties built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard by Ensemble Real Estate Investments and Mosaic Development Partners, in partnership with PIDC, Philadelphia’s public-private economic development corporation, as the team launches the initial phase of a $2.5 billion development plan.

The $400 million first phase will also include significant residential and hospitality initiatives after the completion of the two life sciences buildings. Ensemble/Mosaic plan to bring 3,000 residential units and nearly 3 million square feet of life science manufacturing, R&D, office, hotels, makerspace and retail space when complete.

Read/view more here:
https://www.cpexecutive.com/post/lif...ard-1st-phase/

[arkitect13]

I Love this project my 1 complaint is simply the amount of surface parking in the plan, they could so easily do underground or a few garages for the area, and develop the space more. But I like the amount of green space and the development already here.

[SEFTA]

Originally Posted by arkitect13

I Love this project my 1 complaint is simply the amount of surface parking in the plan, they could so easily do underground or a few garages for the area, and develop the space more. But I like the amount of green space and the development already here.

That was my complaint. I can see those lots getting filled in with more buildings and garages as the area densifies.
Mustin North District looks pretty generic but that all can change. Mustin North looks great! Very exciting

[TonyTone]

Originally Posted by SEFTA

That was my complaint. I can see those lots getting filled in with more buildings and garages as the area densifies.
Mustin North District looks pretty generic but that all can change

My Main issue with the new developed areas in cities for example Riverfronts and "Yards" is they don't continue with the city street layout they completey disrespect the block by block layout with curvy roads and lots so big they just build one big building which is a pain in the ass to walk because everything is farther and there are less restaurants, stores and etc to browse and see.

I understand its the new take on building by why not continue the streets and grow the area naturally.

[New2Fishtown]

The Navy Yard is a mixed bag in terms of urban design, and that's a function of both what they want to accommodate there use-wise as well as the lack of a subway.

To the first point, the historic core actually does continue the street grid from 11th to about 17th from the entrance down to the Delaware, and so once it's more filled in it will absolutely mimic the rhythm and scale of other parts of Philadelphia. The diagonal Rouse Blvd and the curved League Island Blvd introduce some non-traditional Philly elements, but it still feels cohesive and I think the addition of another hotel and a sh*t ton of residential will make the part of the Navy Yard that ties in to Broad Street feel pretty familiar. The thing with Mustin is that what they're hoping to attract is biotech manufacturing and other flex/industrial type uses, which require very large building footprints that are next to impossible to lay out in a way that creates a pedestrian scale. You could argue it's not the way to go, but biotech is Philly's most dynamic and promising industry at this point, and we're losing out on tenants because we don't have readily available facilities for them to occupy.

To the second point, the parking that goes along with them cannot be put underground at The Navy Yard (it's all land fill that used to be the river and it's all in the flood plain, so going down is prohibitively complicated). In the previous master plan, they raised the notion that parking lots could eventually give way to more buildings if the subway is extended. Without a subway extension or some other very high-frequency transit option, the truth is that it's going to be hard to get more than 10-20% of the Navy Yard workforce to arrive in something other than a car. I still don't peg the BSL extension as anything close to likely (despite Biden's infrastructure plan...SEPTA and the city have other priorities which I'd argue are quite valid), so for now I think the Navy Yard is probably doing the best it can by having both an urban center while trying to become a major epicenter for an industry that, if we don't screw it up, could become a primary driver of the regional economy.

[TonyTone]

Originally Posted by New2Fishtown

The Navy Yard is a mixed bag in terms of urban design, and that's a function of both what they want to accommodate there use-wise as well as the lack of a subway.

To the first point, the historic core actually does continue the street grid from 11th to about 17th from the entrance down to the Delaware, and so once it's more filled in it will absolutely mimic the rhythm and scale of other parts of Philadelphia. The diagonal Rouse Blvd and the curved League Island Blvd introduce some non-traditional Philly elements, but it still feels cohesive and I think the addition of another hotel and a sh*t ton of residential will make the part of the Navy Yard that ties in to Broad Street feel pretty familiar. The thing with Mustin is that what they're hoping to attract is biotech manufacturing and other flex/industrial type uses, which require very large building footprints that are next to impossible to lay out in a way that creates a pedestrian scale. You could argue it's not the way to go, but biotech is Philly's most dynamic and promising industry at this point, and we're losing out on tenants because we don't have readily available facilities for them to occupy.

To the second point, the parking that goes along with them cannot be put underground at The Navy Yard (it's all land fill that used to be the river and it's all in the flood plain, so going down is prohibitively complicated). In the previous master plan, they raised the notion that parking lots could eventually give way to more buildings if the subway is extended. Without a subway extension or some other very high-frequency transit option, the truth is that it's going to be hard to get more than 10-20% of the Navy Yard workforce to arrive in something other than a car. I still don't peg the BSL extension as anything close to likely (despite Biden's infrastructure plan...SEPTA and the city have other priorities which I'd argue are quite valid), so for now I think the Navy Yard is probably doing the best it can by having both an urban center while trying to become a major epicenter for an industry that, if we don't screw it up, could become a primary driver of the regional economy.

This is a pretty good break down big bro.

I do believe once more development is built it will start feeling like it has life to it, sh*t it already does feel like its an area with its own thing going on even though its gated off half the time.

I also think they will get the BSL extensions along with other extensions for the city did you see the Transit plan? plus Biden throwing the money for infrastructure looks like we will actually get it done.

I just don't see areas extending city grids and growing cities naturally like the 1900's mind you I wasn't around in that time, however its almost like they are scared to create more city because they don't want history to repeat it self and blight happens again.

I mean how hard is it to replicate the growth we have back in the day? Build new row homes and businesses? it worked before what's different now.

The main thing that killed cities before was "White flight" I don't see that happening ever again (knock on wood) so we can build areas just like we did before just with new knowledge.

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Architect of Race Street Pier chosen as lead planner for next phase of Navy Yard development

Philadelphia-based landscape architect James Corner, whose past projects have included the redevelopment of Race Street Pier on Old City’s Delaware River waterfront, has been selected to lead the next phase of planning at the Navy Yard in South Philadelphia.

Corner’s firm, James Corner Field Operations, will bring “a fresh, creative, and inclusive approach that will drive an ambitious plan for new development,” said Kate McNamara, senior vice president with the Navy Yard’s quasi-governmental overseer, the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corp., in a release announcing the selection Wednesday.

Corner has already made a mark on the former military base as designer of the landscaped Central Green recreational area at the core of the Navy Yard’s existing Corporate Center development.

As the leader of the master-planning-update process for the property, Corner will lead a team of 13 specialist firms, more than half of them minority- and women-owned businesses such as civil-engineering company David Mason & Associates.

The team also includes architecture firm Digsau, which has designed several buildings at the Navy Yard and in central Philadelphia, as well as in other cities.

Read/view more here:
https://www.inquirer.com/business/na...-20210408.html

[gjrip]

This is an exceptional project. Very excited to see this. They've executed very well on the development down there thus far. Want to see a BSL extension!

[iheartphilly]

When the Navy Yard gets fully developed, it will feel like a walled-in city in it of itself.

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Developers of huge project at Philly Navy Yard commit $1 billion for diversity

The developers pursuing a $2.6 billion project at the South Philadelphia Navy Yard say they are committing $1 billion of that money to hiring minority workers and contractors and taking other diversity measures over the next two decades.

“It will be incredibly inclusive at all levels,” said Gregory Reaves, co-owner of Mosaic Development Partners. Mosaic is developing the site with Ensemble Real Estate Investments.

The developers are building 610 apartments, pharma labs, a parking garage and a hotel in the first phase. They say they will employ a 35 percent diverse construction workforce with half of the workers coming from the Philadelphia region.

Plans for the apartments entail three buildings of between five and seven stories, Reaves said. They will be the first residential housing units on the site. “We need to make sure we brought the appropriate scale to bring a community,” he said. Mosaic and Ensemble said they had an “ongoing commitment to providing housing affordability for 15% of all residential units.”

The Mosaic/Ensemble plan a speculative 130,000-square-foot pharma lab. They also hope to build a custom pharma-manufacturing plant to boost the region’s growing life sciences sector.

Over time, the developers plan more than 1 million of life sciences and office space on the 109-acre site. There are plans for a hotel but they have not been finalized. The buildings in this first phase of the project are expected to open in 2023 or 2024.

Read/view more here:
https://www.inquirer.com/business/ph...-20210713.html