PHILADELPHIA | CHOP @ 730 Schuylkill Avenue | 350 FT | 19 FLOORS

mcgrath618 · #1 Posted **Jan 28, 2020, 3:23 AM**

Hopefully this blurry image will be replaced soon... hopefully.

Title: CHOP @ 730 Schuylkill Avenue
Project: CHoP Research/Labs
Architect: ??
Developer: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Location: 730-5 Schuylkill Ave, Philadelphia, PA
Neighborhood: Devil's Pocket
District: South Philadelphia
Floors: 19 floors
Height: 350 feet

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Originally Posted by PurpleWhiteOut

And yes, there was an internal email confirming the numbers/date. They also state that this phase will include green space as well as part of their community agreement with the neighborhood. The rest of the email just talks about the lab space including both wet and dry labs for collaboration.

summersm343 · #2 Posted **Jan 28, 2020, 11:56 AM**

Love it! Build it!

ScreamShatter · #3 Posted **Jan 28, 2020, 12:46 PM**

Great progress in the development along the Schuylkill. Loving this!

Groundhog · #4 Posted **Jan 28, 2020, 2:49 PM**

Curious how long this version has been in the works. I don't know much about the logistics around renderings, but it looks like that might be an incomplete Comcast building in the background.

JohnIII · #5 Posted **Jan 28, 2020, 2:58 PM**

This looks great; and the location is quite key.

I have to ask this; Will there be plans for anything opposite of this new tower on the west bank of the river because if so this tower will be a great gateway into downtown Philadelphia

FredrickHarris · #6 Posted **Jan 28, 2020, 3:09 PM**

Looks awesome for sure people are excited to have that place build as soon as posible.

mcgrath618 · #7 Posted **Jan 28, 2020, 5:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by JohnIII

This looks great; and the location is quite key.

I have to ask this; Will there be plans for anything opposite of this new tower on the west bank of the river because if so this tower will be a great gateway into downtown Philadelphia

There are plans for the lot across Walnut from the FMC tower, but other than that I don't believe so.

summersm343 · #8 Posted **Mar 1, 2020, 3:33 PM**

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is ‘essentially full,’ so it’s pumping $3.4B to expand

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Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, bursting at the seams on its University City campus, has unleashed a $3.4 billion building boom.

Outside of University City, CHOP’s plans include a second research tower across the Schuylkill River on land where the Roberts Center for Pediatric Research opened in 2017 and is home to 1,048 researchers. The second building there, slated to open in 2024 at a cost of $600 million, will expand CHOP’s capacity for traditional, or “wet-lab," research.

Read more here:
https://www.inquirer.com/business/he...-20200301.html

City Wide · #9 Posted **Mar 2, 2020, 8:06 AM**

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I wonder if CHOP has any plans to add to it's research tower on the west bank that was designed and built to accommodate additional height. I think it is called the translational research building; it was planned to be built in two stages, each of about 12-15 stories. It seems to me that not having to do any site work and foundations would be both a cost and time savings. But CHOP never seems to be hurting for money--------

Mark in Mount Airy · #10 Posted **Mar 2, 2020, 4:32 PM**

I am probably not the only person who was struck by the name of the neighborhood -- "Devil's Pocket" -- which is pretty vivid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil'...C_Philadelphia

Broadcastthatboom · #11 Posted **Mar 3, 2020, 1:18 AM**

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Originally Posted by City Wide

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I wonder if CHOP has any plans to add to it's research tower on the west bank that was designed and built to accommodate additional height. I think it is called the translational research building; it was planned to be built in two stages, each of about 12-15 stories. It seems to me that not having to do any site work and foundations would be both a cost and time savings. But CHOP never seems to be hurting for money--------

Yes you're right, the Colket Translational Research Building

https://www.research.chop.edu/about/...earch-building

City Wide · #12 Posted **Mar 3, 2020, 6:19 AM**

^^^^^^^
I'm hoping that some CHOP insider who posts on this site might have heard alittle bird talking about when this building might go vertical again.

Kevets · #13 Posted **Mar 3, 2020, 5:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by City Wide

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I'm hoping that some CHOP insider who posts on this site might have heard alittle bird talking about when this building might go vertical again.

I can pull up the time frame for it later today. I feel a little more comfortable discussing expansion plans now that it's all public in the Inquirer. The facilities documents I saw last year were clearly marked 'CONFIDENTIAL - DO NOT DISTRIBUTE'

Edit: It looks like it should be July 2022 - July 2023.

summersm343 · #14 Posted **Sep 5, 2020, 7:30 PM**

CHOP’s Roberts Center For Pediatric Research Phase 2 To Rise 350 Feet

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The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is in the process of a $3.4 billion expansion in West and South Philadelphia. The latest proposed structure is the Roberts Center for Pediatric Research Phase 2, a 350-foot-tall tower planned at 730 Schuylkill Avenue in South Philadelphia. The new structure will stand as a fraternal twin to the first phase of Roberts Center, a 375-foot-tall building completed in 2017. Project information remains sparse, but the design will likely be led by the office of Pelli Clarke Pelli, which designed the first phase.

Read more here:
https://phillyyimby.com/2020/08/chop...near-twin.html

mcgrath618 · #15 Posted **Feb 25, 2021, 7:13 PM**

From the highrise thread:

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Originally Posted by TempleGuy1000

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Among the biggest endeavors Moore is overseeing at CHOP is a new 22-story, 300-bed patient tower that is under design and expected to be completed by 2027.

Two other significant projects CHOP is working on are a $600 million, 470,000-square-foot Schuylkill Avenue research building and the Hub for Clinical Collaboration, a 19-story building scheduled to open mid-2022. The Schuylkill Avenue project will help CHOP add research capacity within its campus — a goal it set out in the master plan — and is expected to be completed in 2024.

The Hub is well underway and will allow the hospital to decamp some spaces at other buildings on its campus and shuffle some employees and departments so that it can demolish the Wood building, which is where the new patient tower will rise.

CHOP is also building a 175,000-square-foot facility at 63rd and Market streets that will serve as a centralized supply chain and logistics management site for materials, products, food and other items used throughout CHOP’s campus.

summersm343 · #16 Posted **Feb 25, 2021, 7:30 PM**

^^Thanks McGrath! Eventually we'll make new threads for these two. The Schuylkill Ave tower looks like it would be "690 Schuylkill Ave" or something like that.

wanderer34 · #17 Posted **Feb 28, 2021, 6:17 AM**

The current parking lot nearby the CHOP HQ was zoned to hold a second (or third) building and the plans thus far look great. Hopefully this becomes a reality for the next two years or so. Other projects and buildings I'm not fond of, but it looks good.

summersm343 · #18 Posted **Mar 8, 2022, 3:37 PM**

CHOP plans nearly $3.5B in capital projects by 2028

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We have a lot happening here in our Philadelphia campus. We just are in the process of opening a building called the Hub for Clinical Collaboration. That is a 17-story building that's 560,000 square feet. We're also in the process of doing all the pre-work for a new patient tower, which is a 1.3 million square foot building that will open in 2028, and a new, 17-story research building next door to our Roberts Center for Clinical Pediatric Research. We're building a services and logistics center right outside of West Philadelphia. We're also building two inpatient behavioral health units and a new behavioral health outpatient center. We have a just under $3.5 billion building projects budget that will create lots of stimulation for the economy between now and 2028.

Article behind paywall here:
https://www.bizjournals.com/philadel...arly-3-5b.html