PHILADELPHIA | AC Hotel by Marriott | 181 FT | 15 FLOORS
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http://www.phillyliving.com/images/i...resize_620.jpg Title: AC Hotel by Marriott Project: Hotel Architect: SPG3 Developer: Baywood Hotels Location: 13th and Florist St. Philadelphia, PA Neighborhood: Chinatown District: Center City Floors: 15 floors Height: 181 FT Quote:
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Whoa! Marriott took this over?! Nice!
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Let's hope for public space on the roof with trees like you see on Trump Tower on 5th Ave. I can think of so many ways the roof can be utilized, it's not funny! |
late art deco is sometimes called art moderne
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Slapping a tower on this building without any sort of integration is plain lazy architecture. I like the hotel, the height, and the energy that this will bring to an otherwise dilapidated and vacant building. And I get the rationale for the design: let's put this tower as inconspicuously as possible so that it doesn't alter the look of the original building from the street. But it just doesn't work. (And it doesn't work on the proposed tower on top of the Lit Bros building either.) And that's all besides the fact that the tower itself is fugly. Those beige panels? Uck!
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I don't think it's as bad as most think. It looks tall because it's slender, but it's still shorter than the Hampton Inn next door, and I think the office building across the street.
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Ugly and won't age well in my opinion but great for the area and spot on density wise I like it overall. Can always use more hotel rooms
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Oh no! That's gonna become a franchise holiday inn express within 12 years. Ew.
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The amount of lots around that area is ridiculous. I hope these kind of projects move along high rise developments. Its really an extension of the loft district in a way. I see condos and apartments; and location is great for easy access to just about every part of the city. I think the convention center creates a barrier to the rest of the city in a way but it can become its on little neighborhood I think
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It's certainly no looker. I'm reminded of the awful Home2 Sweets atrocity by the Reading Terminal. That being said, I love the added density and the fact that the existing structure is being preserved. This area is swimming in surface lots and can really use the infill. As ugly as it is, it can easily be ignored at the street level where the somewhat hansom Warner Bros. distribution building is all you'll notice.
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More long-term, if there's ever funding to even gradually cover Vine Street, that could also be a major arterial with high-rises on either side. |
Looks to me like interior demo has started on the interior structure. Didn't have a chance to stop as I was driving by, but zoning notices were up, C3 (Clemons Construction Company) signs were up, and it looked like work was going on inside.
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Just recently another old warehouse was torn down, but along with it a very cute apartment building. AFAIK, there are no plans for that site but more parking. The problem with this area is the surface parking owners are lowly taxed and make bank off having almost no overhead. All they pay for is a minimum wage employee (if one is even working) and barely maintaining the asphalt. The only time something gets developed around here is when something else gets torn down, or in this case, capped. I've seen single buildings torn down for no more than three parking spaces. They justify the demolition as a way to "clear the land" for speculative development, but if the property ever goes on the market they end up asking twice the value because the profit margin on surface parking is so high. It's messed up but it's literally cheaper in this neighborhood to demolish a building to construct something new. That just happened on Camac. I wish we still had some of the lofty warehouses that were here before the first leg of the PCC. If we were ever part of Callowhill, that was the time. As it stands, we should be an extension of the Loft District, but the CNA wants nothing to do with us. It's hard to blame them. Fighting SL-EZ lot is a Sisyphean task. At best we're under the PCDC but they're not the most progressive group. This corner of Center City has been the city's dumping ground for poorly envisioned civic projects for more than 30 years: The Gallery, the PCC, Market East Station. Right now the best we can hope for is hotels. |
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Possibly a new developer and 15 floors now?
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