PHILADELPHIA | 8th & Walnut - Penn Medicine at Washington | 12 Stories | 260 FT - Page 5

summersm343 · #81 Posted **Jun 26, 2012, 7:05 PM**

Update from today 6/26/2012

Cro Burnham · #82 Posted **Jul 14, 2012, 12:11 AM**

aro1419 · #83 Posted **Jul 15, 2012, 5:45 AM**

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I can't wait to see what this building will look like once some of the cladding is put up!!!

summersm343 · #84 Posted **Jul 30, 2012, 5:01 AM**

Photo update from today 7/30/2012

dlg569 · #85 Posted **Jul 31, 2012, 1:59 AM**

This is a nice little building. It's really going to fill in that area.

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Photo update from today 7/30/2012

Pennsgrant · #86 Posted **Jul 31, 2012, 2:11 AM**

How many more stories? Having trouble picking up where the addition began? This is visible from the Girard Point and Platt Bridges.

summersm343 · #87 Posted **Jul 31, 2012, 3:06 AM**

should be only one or two more floors unless they added some floors

Pennsgrant · #88 Posted **Jul 31, 2012, 3:46 AM**

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should be only one or two more floors unless they added some floors

You can see the red brick sample panels on the last photos you took.

Just curious why you dont go with all glass- dark tint being that ST James Tower is right across the street.

aro1419 · #89 Posted **Jul 31, 2012, 5:03 AM**

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You can see the red brick sample panels on the last photos you took.

Just curious why you dont go with all glass- dark tint being that ST James Tower is right across the street.

At least those brick panels are a bit more original and modern than the typical faux brick panels installed on buildings throughout the city e.g. Symphony House

Cro Burnham · #90 Posted **Aug 1, 2012, 5:56 PM**

Phillydude · #91 Posted **Aug 2, 2012, 1:59 AM**

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How many more stories? Having trouble picking up where the addition began? This is visible from the Girard Point and Platt Bridges.

That's it. All the vertical steel is in place. All twelve stories are up and there is a partial mechanical floor that's a about a story and a half higher on the right side of the building. If you look at it from Market Street you can see where the occupiable stories end and there are some taller beams sticking out -- those are for the mechanical floor.

I saw the cladding today. I myself would have rather seen the faux brick but the jury is still out on that. I want to see the color of the glass and how the glass curtain on the front looks. It might all come together.

Also, does anyone have any definitive word on whether the 7-11 is going to move. I asked those folks numerous times and a) got screamed at by the first people who owned it and 2) conflicting stories by the people who own it now. So I don't know and I gave up on asking.

Pennsgrant · #92 Posted **Aug 10, 2012, 2:59 AM**

Kidphilly · #93 Posted **Aug 10, 2012, 1:56 PM**

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And the lot at 8th and markets just begs for development...

Cool pic though

summersm343 · #94 Posted **Aug 10, 2012, 4:22 PM**

Nice pic. This is a nice addition to the area. Gives the St. James some company from this angle.

volguus zildrohar · #95 Posted **Aug 11, 2012, 8:43 PM**

The glaziers have begun work on the south facade:

August 11:

summersm343 · #96 Posted **Aug 12, 2012, 8:36 PM**

Nice pic. Is that glass going up?

volguus zildrohar · #97 Posted **Aug 12, 2012, 10:16 PM**

It is. I didn't think the glaziers were on site yet. The project is moving pretty fast.

slow-v6 · #98 Posted **Aug 14, 2012, 2:57 AM**

I am fine with filling in that section of center city with some 250-350 foot buildings. I would love to look at center city from the north or south and just see a wall of high rise buildings from river to river..

Cro Burnham · #99 Posted **Aug 15, 2012, 12:47 AM**

dlg569 · #**100** Posted **Aug 16, 2012, 2:28 AM**

Are there plans to cover that hideous parking garage it sits on? I hope so.