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The 1800 block of Ludlow Street in Center City – just west of 18th Street – is nothing to write home about. It’s definitely not one of those small, charming Philadelphia streets. Instead, it’s made up of a small surface parking lot, a bunch of blank walls, and some lowrise brick buildings. Around 4 years
In the post-Covid environment, developers in cities across the country are looking for ways to adaptively reuse urban office buildings as work from home has become more prevalent and companies have shrunk their office footprints. Although Philadelphia’s office real estate market is fairing better than other major cities such as San Francisco and Chicago, non
We’ve told you about a ton of parking lots in Philadelphia that have been developed into residential, mixed-use, and office buildings over the last several years. We even told you about plans to develop one in Chinatown earlier today. Projects that entail turning surface parking lots into homes for people and businesses are some of
Word broke late last year that the Rite Aid at 2301 Walnut Street in Center City would be replaced by a new residential building after the pharmacy announced the closing of the location. Now, in anticipation of the project’s hearing with the Civic Design Review (CDR), we have more information available about the plans. The
If you’ve been in Rittenhouse Square doing holiday shopping on Walnut Street recently, you probably noticed the gaping hole in the high-end commercial corridor. Three historic buildings at 1706, 1708, and 1710 Walnut Street were demolished in early 2021 as a result of arson that took place during the May 2020 protests. After the fire
If you live in Old City or follow Philadelphia real estate development in general, you’ve probably heard about several plans for the southwest corner of 2nd and Race Streets. The property was most recently occupied by a commercial kitchen supply store. Back in 2017, zoning permits were issued for a 5-story building with 13 residential
A 6-story, 65 foot tall, 70-unit building with ground floor commercial space and 13 parking spaces is being planned on the 11,678 square foot CMX-3 parcel at 416-24 Vine Street in Old City. The building will be clad in metal and cement fiber board panels with aluminum clad windows and beige retractable balconies accenting the
Something big is planned for the southwest corner of 7th and Chestnut Streets. A zoning permit was issued on Friday for the consolidation of the parcels at 700-02 and 704 Chestnut Street. The plans call for demolishing 704 Chestnut Street and putting an 8-story addition on top of the 6-story building at the corner of
Back in March of 2021, we told you about a 14-story overbuild / adaptive reuse project at 2300-2324 Market Street that included 222 residential units, 39,855 square feet of office space, 12,048 square feet of retail space, 8 onsite parking spaces, 52 offsite parking spaces, and 74 bicycle stalls. The developer behind that plan ended
We last mentioned Two Cathedral Square to you nearly 2 years ago when One Cathedral Square was going through the Civic Design Review (CDR) process. Since then, One Cathedral Square has broken ground and has risen high into the sky. We’ll have to do an update on that project in the near future, but if
It’s been a long road for the northeast corner of Broad and Pine Streets. Back in 2015, Dranoff Properties proposed a 23-story hotel with 78 rooms on the site. A couple of years later, the plans shifted to a 28-story building with 56 condominiums and 92 parking spaces. Well, it looks like the plan has
We’ve seen multiple parking lots in Old City developed recently and heard about plans to develop others. It looks like there’s another significant project in the works. Developers are planning to demolish a 3-story building at 211-213 Vine Street that has a surface parking lot in its rear. In its place, a 6-story, 61,694 square