PHILADELPHIA | 4040 Walnut Street | 138 FT | 12 FLOORS

[summersm343]

Title: 4040 Walnut Street
Project: Residential, office, retail
Architect: Cube3
Developer: Campus Apartments
Location: 4040 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA
Neighborhood: Spruce Hill
District: West Philadelphia
Floors: 12 floors
Height: 138 feet

Update: 12-Story Mixed-use Apartment Tower Proposed at 41st & Walnut

Project site:


Project renderings:

Plans call for the demolition of three Walnut-facing buildings, with a 12-story, mixed-use tower to take their place. Featuring dark brick along the ground level, the upper portion of the tower is a mix of different shades of neutral paneling, with plenty of glass to complete the contemporary look. 136 units will make up those upper floors, with two commercial spaces taking up the ground floor along Walnut, and an office space taking up the entirety of the second floor. Campus Apartments will be taking up the office space here, which won’t be much of a move from their main office which sits immediately across the street from this project.

Read/view more here:
https://www.ocfrealty.com/naked-phil...at-41st-walnut

[summersm343]

CDR Submission PDF:
https://www.phila.gov/media/20221018...1-2022-CDR.pdf

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136-Unit, Mixed-Use Project Planned at 41st and Walnut in University City

Read/view more here:
http://www.rising.realestate/136-uni...iversity-city/

[mcgrath618]

What a completely unnecessary demolition of multiple historic structures.

[Justin7]

In a better world this thing is 3x as tall and built only on the parking lot.

[summersm343]

Renderings Revealed For 4040-50 Walnut Street

Read/view more here:
https://phillyyimby.com/2022/10/rend...ladelphia.html

[summersm343]

CDR is up:
https://www.phila.gov/media/20221122...6-2022-CDR.pdf

[City Wide]

Since many of us know from experience, the final built structure usually looks not as good as the drawings, I'm certainly not expecting very much out of cube of crap. I wonder if the City or the design review will do anything about the curb cut on Walnut St. It looks like it will be for both entering and exiting the building, which will be a mess at best. Plus, this pile has a large car entrance on 41st St. to serve the ground floor parking, and a drive heading south, so I don't know why the Walnut St. cut is needed. This building is one block from campus, I would imagine Penn related people will be the tenants, so hopefully there won't be tons of car trips in and out.
Is this site limited by zoning or otherwise, to this height and/or number of units? If they are going to this expense, I would think that the developer would want to take both the height and unit count to the max.

[summersm343]

Campus Apartments’ latest plans for Walnut Street in West Philly come into focus

The new headquarters for Campus Apartments, a national student housing business, got its public debut Tuesday.

The city’s Civic Design Review Committee — a board of architects, planners, and developers who offer nonbinding suggestions for major developments — praised the developers for conducting extensive community engagement in West Philadelphia and altering the project design accordingly.

The apartment building is planned for 41th and Walnut Streets, just off of the University of Pennsylvania’s campus. It would consolidate the company’s many offices in University City into one building, on the second floor of a 12-story tower.

The developer tweaked the building to add warmer design touches, such as wood-like paneling, in an attempt to have the building better match its surroundings.

Two residential spaces and a handful of parking spaces would be on the ground floor. The project includes 23 parking spaces overall. The 10 stories above will include 136 apartments with 295 beds, including a penthouse level.

The project needs no zoning relief, and neighborhood groups legally have little influence over its outcome, but Campus Apartments has met repeatedly with the Spruce Hill Community Association, other neighborhood groups, and Councilmember Jamie Gauthier’s office.

“We see the design as … superior to other similar-scale buildings in the immediate vicinity,” said Andrew Goodman, director of equitable development with Gauthier’s office.

Read/view more here:
https://www.inquirer.com/real-estate...-20221206.html

[mcgrath618]

This newer design is somehow even worse. At least the original had symmetrical windows throughout the building.

[PurpleWhiteOut]

Idk what CDR is smoking, because it looks significantly worse and cheaper to me too.

[summersm343]

Change in Design for 135-Unit Apartment Tower at 41st & Walnut

Old on the left, new on the right:


Old design:


New design:


Read/view more here:
https://www.ocfrealty.com/naked-phil...at-41st-walnut

[mcgrath618]

It was ugly before, it’s even uglier now.

[iheartphilly]

^
looks like re-design has wider windows and more of them. but yeah both designs are ugly.

[kool-ski]

ZONING PERMIT: ISSUED
ZP-2022-007683

FOR THE COMPLETE DEMOLITION OF ALL EXISTING STRUCTURES. FOR THE ERECTION OF A DETACHED STRUCTURE WITH A CELLAR AND ROOF DECKS AT THE THIRD AND ELEVENTH FLOOR LEVEL

STREETS REVIEW: ISSUED
SR-2022-014019

Demolition of existing buildings and parking lot from 4040 to 4050 Walnut Street. Construction of 12-story mixed use building with 1st floor parking and commercial, 2nd floor office, and 295 beds for group living on 3rd to 11th floors.

A meeting was held with Streets and PennDOT on April 20, 2022. Per that meeting, the driveway into the site has been adjusted to meet Streets regulations.

https://eclipse.phila.gov/phillylmsp...ctId=491811059

[PurpleWhiteOut]

This is the only other highrise besides the Rittenhouse monstrosity I can't get behind at all

[yuryphilly]

This whole saga reminds me of this part from Andres Duany lecture https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx9jPlU0s...zLtAb-RBD31dp1

[McBane]

First one was half decent. Second version is a quarter decent. But this one never really a stood a chance of support b/c of what it was replacing. Shame.