PHILADELPHIA-CAMDEN-WILMINGTON-ATLANTIC CITY-READING | Metro Development Thread

[jonesrmj]

Originally Posted by domodeez

^ there is a separate thread for the Comcast building http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...09240&page=263

Okay. But I'm confused about how you upload images onto this website.

[summersm343]

Why these tech start-up founders are moving to Camden

Read more here:
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/ne...to_Camden.html

[summersm343]

Kimco Realty Buys Up Property To Expand Suburban Square Shopping Center

Kimco Realty has bought up a number of properties surrounding its Ardmore shopping center, Suburban Square.

The company published an announcement of plans for an expansion of the mall, with the first phase being a larger Trader Joe's and a new parking garage in place of a ground-level lot. The second phase, to be called Station Row, will be street-level retail and dining, with an outdoor plaza.

Read more at: https://www.bisnow.com/philadelphia/...xpansion-69943

[jsbrook]

Originally Posted by summersm343

Why these tech start-up founders are moving to Camden

Read more here:
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/ne...to_Camden.html

Bribes?

[domodeez]

Wilmington updates:

New riverfront apartment building underway:






BPG's Harlan Flats phase II 76-unit apartment project wrapping up on the Riverfront:

Looking NE from Harlan Blvd at the IMAX


Looking North from Harlan Blvd


More info here: http://www.bpgsconstruction.com/prop...flats-phase-2/




One of a few small rehabs on Market Street nearing completion, this one at 415 Market:






New sign up at Residence Inn Marriott at 13 x Market. No visible progress to exterior otherwise, but plenty of work happening on the inside.






Also, BPG has been converting a building at 9 x Orange (2 blocks west of Market) to 30 apartments now, right across the street from Mid-Town Park: http://www.bpgsconstruction.com/property/mkt-place/. I'll have to get pictures soon.

[skiesthelimit]

Whoah, whoah, what's going on the riverfront? or is that the theater expansion?

[Jawnadelphia]

Originally Posted by skiesthelimit

Whoah, whoah, what's going on the riverfront? or is that the theater expansion?

Maybe domodeez has more info... I didn't hear BP Group was moving along with a new apt building on the Riverfront as Harlan Flats--phase 2 wrapped up.

I had heard some rumors a few months ago that Capano might be getting into the Riverfront apt game?? Or maybe this is going to be the hotel BP Group announced they wanted to build about a year ago?

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"In February (2016), the Buccini/Pollin Group announced plans to build two new hotels – a 200-room Marriott and a 100-room Homewood Suites – but they have not said where on the Riverfront they will be built or when they might open. All the details haven’t been worked out yet. “We’re in a sensitive negotiating phase with our franchises,” said Sarah Lamb, Buccini/Pollin’s director of design and marketing.

“I don’t think you’ll see dirt moved this year (2016),” said Mike Purzycki, executive director of the Riverfront Development Corporation and currently running for Wilmington mayor (now the mayor!). Purzycki has been looking forward to additional hotel construction because increased capacity would make the Chase Center on the Riverfront a more attractive destination for larger conventions and meetings. Currently, the only hotel on the riverfront is the 180-room Westin, which adjoins the Chase Center and opened in 2014."

http://delawarepublic.org/post/wilmi...-over-20-years

[jonesrmj]

Originally Posted by domodeez

Wilmington updates:

New riverfront apartment building underway:

Yep, I saw this site as well about a month ago. I thought it was one of the 2 hotels planned by Buccini Pollin. (A few months ago, Buccini Pollin announced something about a 200 room and 100 room hotel on the riverfront).

New sign up at Residence Inn Marriott at 13 x Market. No visible progress to exterior otherwise, but plenty of work happening on the inside.

Sweet. I don't know why, but this project is something that I am really looking forward to.

[jonesrmj]

Also, can someone please tell me how to upload images from flickr? I tried and it doesn't work.

[skiesthelimit]

Originally Posted by jonesrmj

Also, can someone please tell me how to upload images from flickr? I tried and it doesn't work.

I personally don't use flickr, but you should be able to click on the image, right click it and click "copy image url", then paste it here within the tags [img][/img] for instance:

[img] img address goes here [/img]


And if you're unable to right click, look for a share button somewhere on the flickr site for the picture and it should have a copy url for you.

[summersm343]

Conshohocken: Five Tower Bridge put back on the market

Just over a year after putting Five Tower Bridge up for sale and then pulling it off of the market, a partnership that owns the office building in West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, has decided to make another go of it.

MIM-Hayden Real Estate Fund I, which is a partnership comprised of Hayden Real Estate Investments and Miller Investment Management, both of Conshohocken, bought the 8-story, 223,736-square-foot office building at 300 Barr Harbor Drive at the end of 2011 for around $70 million. Though the partnership received some attractive offers when it put the property up for sale in mid-2015, they weren’t as good as desired, said Tony Hayden Jr., a principal with Maguire Hayden Real Estate Investment Co.

There is a parcel adjacent to the office building the partnership received approval to build a companion office structure that would total up to 220,782 square feet and front the Schuylkill River. It would stand eight stories and is designed to sit atop a 3-story parking garage.

The partnership also said it figured once one of Five Tower’s anchor tenants settled in its expanded space, it would make the property a more desirable asset for investors.

Oracle Corp. renewed and expanded in 2015 in the building for a total of 84,000 square feet until 2026 and at $33 a square foot. The deal solidified Five Tower's overall occupancy on a long-term basis. Aside from Oracle, Five Tower is 96 percent leased to Hirtle Callaghan & Co., BTG International Inc., Wells Fargo and KRT Capital Partners.

http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelp...ffice-sal.html

[domodeez]

Originally Posted by TallCoolOne

Maybe domodeez has more info... I didn't hear BP Group was moving along with a new apt building on the Riverfront as Harlan Flats--phase 2 wrapped up.

I had heard some rumors a few months ago that Capano might be getting into the Riverfront apt game?? Or maybe this is going to be the hotel BP Group announced they wanted to build about a year ago?

Yes, this is the Capano project.

http://delawarebusinessnow.com/2016/...main-stagnant/

The biggest residential player in Wilmington is BPG, which has many developments in the works. However, Capano is joining the trend with an Avenue of the Arts apartment development near the Delaware Theatre Co.

[jonesrmj]

CSC Headquarters Progress (1/23/17):

[IMG]CSC Headquarters Project (1/14/17) by jonesrmj, on Flickr[/IMG]

You can see the stone base is completed at the bottom and the outside walls are slowly but surely being installed.

[skiesthelimit]

Originally Posted by jonesrmj

CSC Headquarters Progress (1/23/17):



You can see the stone base is completed at the bottom and the outside walls are slowly but surely being installed.

Hey jones, this is what you need for your img to show up: in the bottom right of the picture that says "share" then "BBCode" on Flickr.

Also does anyone have renders of Ave of Arts Apartments?

[Jawnadelphia]

I haven't been able to find any rendering for the Capano Ave. of Arts apartments. Capano is also building the apartments on Philadelphia Pike as part of the Darley Green development.
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Bad and sad news for Wilmington - Market Street, the Queen Theater is closing as of May - World Cafe Live is backing out. Hopefully someone will step in... it's a terrific venue, but as the article states ...Market Street's revitalization isn't quite there yet for WCL to stay.
B/P Group has so much invested in Market St, downtown and the Riverfront, and the new mayor is their man. ....hopefully something is worked out so the Queen is not closed for long.

http://www.delawareonline.com/story/...-may/96981768/
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In other news....

10 story building for Newark - University of Delaware:
"But a long-planned, 10-story office tower is just weeks away from rising at University of Delaware’s Science, Technology and Advanced Research Campus off South College Avenue."

http://www.delawareonline.com/story/...wark/96663000/

[jonesrmj]

Originally Posted by skiesthelimit

Also does anyone have renders of Ave of Arts Apartments?

Originally Posted by TallCoolOne

Haven't been able to find any rendering for the Capano Ave. of Arts apartments. Capano is also building the apartments on Philadelphia Pike as part of the Darley Green development.

I think I've found what you are looking for:

[domodeez]

101 avenue of the arts = two new residential mid-rise buildings. May also include a parking garage, can't recall.

[summersm343]

Originally Posted by TallCoolOne

I
In other news....

10 story building for Newark - University of Delaware:
"But a long-planned, 10-story office tower is just weeks away from rising at University of Delaware’s Science, Technology and Advanced Research Campus off South College Avenue."

http://www.delawareonline.com/story/...wark/96663000/

This is nice! Good for Newark

STAR Tower ready to rise in Newark

There has been no formal announcement or groundbreaking ceremony.

But a long-planned, 10-story office tower is just weeks away from rising at University of Delaware’s Science, Technology and Advanced Research Campus off South College Avenue.

“Technically, we’ve already started the preliminary site work,” developer Ernie Delle Donne said. “I expect we’ll start going vertical in April, and it should be topped out by homecoming.”

The $40 million structure, slated for completion by mid-2018, will house state-of-the-art classrooms and research facilities for the university while providing three floors of office space to some high-tech commercial tenants yet to be named.

Located just west of the former Chrysler administration building, the STAR Tower will be “prominent but not dominate,” Delle Donne said.

At 150 feet tall, the steel-and-glass structure will be the third-largest building in Newark, short of the 17- and 16-story Christiana Towers student dorms on the north side of campus.

The real impact, Delle Donne said, will be found inside the 120,000-square foot structure, which is slated to include virtual reality rooms, modular workstations and a maker space for new physical therapy gear.

The building also fits with the university’s long-term goal of transforming the former industrial site into an “urban-scale environment” of innovation and collaboration that includes a mix of commercial enterprises, research facilities, classrooms, housing, retail and green spaces.

Even as the STAR Tower begins to take shape, plans are already underway for additional projects, including a new train station, a parking garage and possibly even a hotel.

State officials and Amtrak struck a tentative agreement in early 2015 that could clear the way for a new $50 million Newark train station to be built along the tracks immediately north of the STAR Campus, starting in 2018.

UD, meanwhile, put out a call in October for potential partners interested in bringing a full-service hotel to the STAR Campus, most likely between the tower and the future train station.

http://www.delawareonline.com/story/...wark/96663000/

[summersm343]

King of Prussia Restaurant Renaissance

Two more food-and-beverage companies will join the King of Prussia Mall's growing food lineup over the next four months.

The King of Prussia Mall has added a number of eateries in the past year, most notably at high-end food court called Savor King of Prussia, which brought a slew of new restaurants like Shake Shack, sweetgreen, Shake Shack Philadelphia's Hai Street Kitchen & Co., and New Jersey's The Taco Truck, among others.

Now the retail destination is adding two more New York-based restaurants: café concept Bluestone Lane and Luke's Lobster.

Bluestone Lane in 2015 opened its first location outside of New York in Rittenhouse Square at The Warwick Rittenhouse Square. Another location opened at 1 S. Penn Square across City Hall.

The King of Prussia Mall café will be located near cosmetics retailer Clarins within the mall's new 155,000-square-foot expansion connecting what was once called the Plaza and the Court.

Bluestone Lane is scheduled to open in April. It will be the brand's first in-mall location.

Seafood restaurant chain Luke's Lobster — which opened a Philadelphia location in 2013 in Rittenhouse Square — will join the other eateries at Savor King of Prussia.

Luke's Lobster is scheduled to open in early May. The latest restaurant to open at Savor was The Taco Truck concept.

Two other concepts are slated to open at the mall over the next four months as well. Yard House and Outback Steakhouse will open in the former Sears Auto Center near Primark and Dick's Sporting Goods.

The Outback Steakhouse is set to open on Feb. 14.

Yard House will open on March 27. It will be the brand's first Pennsylvania location; there is a restaurant in Moorestown, New Jersey.

The King of Prussia area has been cultivating its food-and-beverage amenities recently.

Pizzeria Vetri in October opened adjacent to Urban Outfitters in the area anchored by The Cheesecake Factory. A concept called Mistral, which first opened in Princeton, New Jersey, will also make its KoP Mall debut this year, taking up about 3,700 square feet of space at the entrance between Neiman Marcus and Lord & Taylor.

Phoenix-based True Food Kitchen this summer will open its first Pennsylvania outpost near the Shake Shack. The restaurant is under construction.

"The feedback we've received so far regarding Savor from both customers and restaurant operators has been extremely positive and further confirms that unique dining experiences and a diversity of options are very important to customers," Kathy Smith, the mall's director of marketing and business development, said in an earlier interview.

The King of Prussia area is seeing a food renaissance overall.

At the King of Prussia Town Center — located just a short drive from the mall — the following restaurants have opened or will open: Naf Naf Grill, Mission BBQ, Founding Farmers, b.good, honeygrow, Davio’s Northern Italian Steakhouse, City Works, Paladar Latin Kitchen & Rum Bar, and Fogo de Chao.

Also located not too far from the mall is the Valley Forge Plaza Shopping Center, where New York-based Halal Guys opened and an outpost of Philadelphia-based Tiffin will also open.

http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelp...all-savor.html

[summersm343]

Upper Darby to get two new hotels

Two new hotels are coming to Upper Darby, township officials announced Tuesday.

A Comfort Suites and a Holiday Inn are scheduled to break ground this year, becoming the first brand names to open in the Delaware County township.

The planned 100-room, six-story Holiday Inn will be next to the Drexelbrook Catering & Special Events Center at 4700 Drexelbrook Dr. Micozzi said the project is expected to create 150 to 160 jobs during the yearlong construction. Once completed, the hotel will generate 31 full-time and 37 part-time jobs.

The Comfort Suites hotel will retrofit an existing four-story apartment building at 130 Garrett Rd., next to the Township Municipal Building.

In 2015, Studio Movie Grill opened a $6 million state-of-the-art digital theater complex with nine theaters and 900 reclining seats. H&M, Gap, Old Navy, Fresh Grocer, Ross, and Burlington Coat Factory also have opened in the 69th Street area in recent years.

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/r...wo-hotels.html