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Blatstein to reopen Showboat in Atlantic City next month

The shuttered Showboat boardwalk casino and hotel in Atlantic City will be reopened next month as a non-casino hotel, Philadelphia-based developer Bart Blatstein announced Friday.

Blatstein's Tower Investments will reopen the building as a hotel with 852 hotel rooms, making it the largest non-casino hotel in the state, the company said in a news release.

"There's a lot more coming, this is just the start," he said Friday. "This is the start of a much greater plan."

Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/ne...UUMsGuxPkt0.99

[Knight Hospitaller]

Bart has plans! Atlantic City is more doomed than ever.

[Philly Fan]

Originally Posted by Knight Hospitaller

Bart has plans! Atlantic City is more doomed than ever.

Surely you jest. Rooftop villages are JUST what AC needs.

[jsbrook]

Originally Posted by Knight Hospitaller

Bart has plans! Atlantic City is more doomed than ever.

Yep

[202_Cyclist]

Could Atlantic City's airport get a train station?

Updated: June 7, 2016
By Emily Babay, Staff writer
Philadelphia Inquirer


Will travelers flying into, and out of, Atlantic City someday be able to take a train directly to the airport? And, will Philadelphians be able to hop on board from 30th Street Station?

That could be in flyers' future, if a bill that cleared an Assembly committee this week advances.

The measure would direct the state Department of Transportation and N.J. Transit to build a rail station at Atlantic City International Airport in Egg Harbor Township. The station would connect the Atlantic City Rail Line to the airport.

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/i...n-station.html

[Knight Hospitaller]

Originally Posted by 202_Cyclist

Could Atlantic City's airport get a train station?

Updated: June 7, 2016
By Emily Babay, Staff writer
Philadelphia Inquirer


Will travelers flying into, and out of, Atlantic City someday be able to take a train directly to the airport? And, will Philadelphians be able to hop on board from 30th Street Station?

That could be in flyers' future, if a bill that cleared an Assembly committee this week advances.

The measure would direct the state Department of Transportation and N.J. Transit to build a rail station at Atlantic City International Airport in Egg Harbor Township. The station would connect the Atlantic City Rail Line to the airport.

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/i...n-station.html

If only NJT didn't take such a roundabout route through the city and across the River Delaware. A link via Center City and Camden would've been huge.

[MReiser]

Originally Posted by DIESELPOLO

But where will this be though? I can't picture this at all.

The Asplundh Cancer Center is going to be located at 3941 Commerce Ave in Willow Grove on the sie of the former Creekwood Center outpatient mental health center. It's basically right where Maryland Rd dead ends on Commerce Ave (as opposed to where Commerce Ave dead ends on Maryland Rd) adjacent to the Schilling Campus and Dixon School of Nursing.

We have the Asplundh Center on one side and the new Thompson Lexus dealership on the other side of the Abington Hospital campus there.

[Larry King]

Originally Posted by Knight Hospitaller

Bart has plans! Atlantic City is more doomed than ever.

He says it should be the American Ibiza which I think is actually a great and not so unrealistic goal. I'm glad he's over there, AC needs every believer it can get

[shadowbat2]

Kennedy Health expansion, Cherry Hill:

Kennedy Health Cherry Hill Addition Construction by John, on Flickr

[DIESELPOLO]

Originally Posted by MReiser

The Asplundh Cancer Center is going to be located at 3941 Commerce Ave in Willow Grove on the sie of the former Creekwood Center outpatient mental health center. It's basically right where Maryland Rd dead ends on Commerce Ave (as opposed to where Commerce Ave dead ends on Maryland Rd) adjacent to the Schilling Campus and Dixon School of Nursing.

We have the Asplundh Center on one side and the new Thompson Lexus dealership on the other side of the Abington Hospital campus there.

Thank you!

That whole area (encompassing the office parks) could easily be updated for new urbanism.

[EastSideHBG]

There is a rather large apartment building under construction in Norristown near the Plymouth Meeting line, killer views for some of the units all the way to Center City (yes that's right, you can see a few of CC's taller buildings from spots in Norristown and beyond):

http://www.luxorapartments.com/gallery.aspx

The immediate area around this building has been rapidly changing over the last year or so however, it is still contained and not progressing much further at this point and a few blocks away is still pretty rough.

And the irony of this new building is it is sitting right next to an empty condo building, also with killer views, that has been plagued with trouble since it first opened...I feel really badly for the owners of the units:

http://articles.philly.com/2014-07-2...-sean-kilkenny

https://www.facebook.com/Residents-o...-227813120807/

[hammersklavier]

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

It's worth point out that these four towns all lie along the old railroad line that ran from Philly to Bethlehem. SEPTA last provided service in 1981, and there was a study that service to Perkasie or Quakertown was feasible as well.

Despite being called "sleepy", Souderton and Perkasie in particular have handsome main streets, much like Lansdale's, Ambler's, and Doylestown's.

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Apartment project continues Wilmington's resurgence

http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelp...ni-pollin.html

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Tropicana completes $40M renovation

http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelp...enovation.html

[Urbanthusiat]

Toll Brothers is finishing up a 349 luxury apartment complex in Phoenixville called Riverworks. Unfortunately they're not particularly attractive (withholding judgement until they're finished) in the renderings, but the location is great - in the walkable downtown area on a former brownfield and right on the Schuylkill River Trail (and if SEPTA ever restores regional rail along the 422 corridor, the train station). With the Phoenix Village development putting out 275 units only a few months before across the street, I worry that it will take a while for these to fill up; that makes 624 lux units delivered in Pville in only a few months! In the long-term though I trust these will get filled as walkable towns in the suburbs have a lot to gain these days so long as the schools in the city are perceived as worse than the suburbs and young urban people move out to start a family.

Article on Riverworks here: http://www.dailylocal.com/article/DL...NESS/160619907

[3rd&Brown]

Originally Posted by Urbanthusiat

Toll Brothers is finishing up a 349 luxury apartment complex in Phoenixville called Riverworks. Unfortunately they're not particularly attractive (withholding judgement until they're finished) in the renderings, but the location is great - in the walkable downtown area on a former brownfield and right on the Schuylkill River Trail (and if SEPTA ever restores regional rail along the 422 corridor, the train station). With the Phoenix Village development putting out 275 units only a few months before across the street, I worry that it will take a while for these to fill up; that makes 624 lux units delivered in Pville in only a few months! In the long-term though I trust these will get filled as walkable towns in the suburbs have a lot to gain these days so long as the schools in the city are perceived as worse than the suburbs and young urban people move out to start a family.

Article on Riverworks here: http://www.dailylocal.com/article/DL...NESS/160619907

It's not bad for the suburbs. Certainly better than most apt complexes out there.

[Jawnadelphia]

Summers beat me to it - Wilmington news:

My take: Glad Wilmington is getting a major new development on a gigantic hole in the center of downtown -- but it' s a suburban style apartment complex basically...

I guess beggars can't be choosers.

BPG should do better than this (perhaps a warning Philly, they have entered Philly city limits with the National project, hoping it's not as cheap looking as some of their buildings).

http://www.delawareonline.com/story/...gton/86145158/

[summersm343]

A 151-unit apartment complex begins to rise by Warminster Station

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

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Primark sets opening at Willow Grove

http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelp...july-2016.html

[DIESELPOLO]

Originally Posted by 3rd&Brown

It's not bad for the suburbs. Certainly better than most apt complexes out there.

I'm actually quite fine with the architecture, but its urban design is nothing different than all the other suburban apartment complexes that induce driving and don't contribute to walkability.