PHILADELPHIA | Lowrise/General Developments Thread

[FiggyOlive]

Foster Penn Hospital Tower: Some project highlights are being passed down to employees, particularly to those who are being told their departments are to inhabit the new hospital.

What I've heard:

Cardiac unit moving.

Building primarily "beds"

Old hospital to be renovated for outpatient departments and nursing education.

Walls near beds to "be like iPads" where "things can be written"

All rooms to be private (one bed). This goes beyond trying to exceed industry standards. Apparently it has to do with limiting infection transmission.

[summersm343]

Article on 410 Society Hill by Toll Brothers

http://philly.curbed.com/archives/20...k-delivery.php

[summersm343]

Society Hill SuperFresh site development - some basic information

http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelp...h-site-in.html

Not sure why people in the neighborhood are complaining at all. Plenty of room to put a brand new Whole Foods here on the ground floor with underground parking and three or four floors of apartment above.

[iheartphilly]

Originally Posted by summersm343

Hancock and Sansom - Old City
New rows coming to this small street? Right next to the Ritz East in Old City taking out more of the surface lot.

Part of this surface lot will be closed in 2 weeks. Looks like this project is getting off the ground.

[summersm343]

Originally Posted by iheartphilly

Part of this surface lot will be closed in 2 weeks. Looks like this project is getting off the ground.

Awesome! Now there's only one section of this parking lot left. Hopefully we'll see a nice sized building in the 10 floor range to take up the remainder of the lot.

[summersm343]

3.0 University Place - 41st and Market - new renderings



Website here:
http://30universityplace.com/

[jsbrook]

3.0 University Place doesn't look half bad. I like that we are seeing more glass and less cheap and clichéd paneling than we've become used to seeing on many University City projects.

[Londonee]

Originally Posted by jsbrook

3.0 University Place doesn't look half bad. I like that we are seeing more glass and less cheap and clichéd paneling than we've become used to seeing on many University City projects.

It's ok... if you plopped that down in the middle of a parking lot off Swedesford Road it would look perfectly in place.

[Philly Fan]

Originally Posted by Londonee

It's ok... if you plopped that down in the middle of a parking lot off Swedesford Road it would look perfectly in place.

Except that the corners of this appear to slope outward as they rise up (pretty sure that's not just a perspective illusion), so there may be a bit more flair than you'd typically find in the 'burbs:





http://30universityplace.com/?page_id=21

[PhiLaw]

http://www.philly.com/philly/busines..._makeover.html

[McBane]

Originally Posted by Londonee

It's ok... if you plopped that down in the middle of a parking lot off Swedesford Road it would look perfectly in place.

Except instead of being surrounded by a massive parking lot, it has almost zero parking, is steps away from the subway, and is integrated with the surrounding streets.

I get that it's not a jaw dropping design, but I also recognize that 40th and Market is not CC (heck, it's not even UC anymore). It's bringing jobs to a badly needed area and is one thousand times better than what's there now: https://goo.gl/maps/kOQ7b

Approved!

[hammersklavier]

Agreed with McBane here. Spec office buildings don't always have the sexiest of designs, and while the chunk the Science Center's built on the 3701 block of Market are fairly blah on their own, they definitely help that stretch feel more urban than the Science Center's south side.

Incidentally, if the Science Center keeps developing at a rapid clip and both the Innovation District and UPA get off the ground, that will lead to a large concentration of modern science and tech-oriented offices along Market between 30th and 42nd, broken only by Drexel's campus.

[Insoluble]

Originally Posted by McBane

It's bringing jobs to a badly needed area and is one thousand times better than what's there now: https://goo.gl/maps/kOQ7b

That's 40th & Market. This is proposed for 41st which is even worse (currently a collection of surface lots). I completely agree that this project is terrific from an urban fabric perspective. 3.0 and the now complete 2.0 University Place are essentially creating dense urban fabric from thin air (or their urban equivalent: surface parking). This is definitely a huge improvement. And while the design may not be award winning, it certainly isn't ugly and depending on the quality of construction could end up being quite handsome.

[thisisforreal]

Originally Posted by McBane

Except instead of being surrounded by a massive parking lot, it has almost zero parking, is steps away from the subway, and is integrated with the surrounding streets.

I get that it's not a jaw dropping design, but I also recognize that 40th and Market is not CC (heck, it's not even UC anymore). It's bringing jobs to a badly needed area and is one thousand times better than what's there now: https://goo.gl/maps/kOQ7b

Approved!

Oops, Insoluble already pointed out it was the wrong intersection. Anyways, here is the right one.

[iheartphilly]

Originally Posted by iheartphilly

Part of this surface lot will be closed in 2 weeks. Looks like this project is getting off the ground.

A major chunk of the parking lot was taped off and no cars parked on it today. I heard only space for about 30 cars will remain in use while pre-construction/construction takes place. Another surface lot bites the dust!

[PhiLaw]

The Old Country Fresh Market



1720 Fairmount



Another Angle...



Mortgage Security Trust Bld

[PhiLaw]

5/31/15

[joemustardo]

Has anyone been to the New Carlos Bakery? I'm hoping the fact that Carlo's came to Philly means that places like Magnolia's, Georgetown Cupcake, Sprinkles, etc. will come to Walnut or even other parts of the city. IMO, if DC and Boston can have these, so should Philly.

[UrbanRevival]

Originally Posted by joemustardo

Has anyone been to the New Carlos Bakery? I'm hoping the fact that Carlo's came to Philly means that places like Magnolia's, Georgetown Cupcake, Sprinkles, etc. will come to Walnut or even other parts of the city. IMO, if DC and Boston can have these, so should Philly.

Careful what you wish for. Philly is definitely on the radar of well-known "foodies," but often times these more trendy/popular businesses (Georgetown Cupcake is a prime example) are much more hype and marketing than substance. There's nothing particularly appealing about spending $12.00 on a mediocre cupcake. I'll give Buddy Valastro a pass given his roots, but even the "Cake Boss" doesn't have the same "humble baker" charm as before (which is ironically what makes these types of places so popular in the first place).

That's not to say that it's not great to see outsiders invest in the city, but it's important for the Philly to maintain a healthy atmosphere of more authentic, homegrown, mom-and-pop type businesses (which is also why so many people are attracted to it in the first place).

[shadowbat2]

Lincoln apartments renovation:
043 by tehshadowbat, on Flickr

1100 Chestnut:
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077 by tehshadowbat, on Flickr