Comcast, FMC towers rising... (Philadelphia, Liberty: 2015, to buy, construction)

[MB1562]

Originally Posted by cpomp

Don't forget my new home at 500 Walnut!

So your the one buying that $18M penthouse at the top.

[RightonWalnut]

Philadelphia is booming currently. Here is a list I made of everything over 10 floors at least to the site prep stage.


Philadelphia Highrise Construction

Completed Since 2013

Evo at Cira Centre South – luxury apartments/retail – 33 floors – 430 feet
2116 Chestnut – luxury apartments/retail – 34 floors – 379 feet
Morgan Hall – Temple University dormitory/retail – 27 floors – 312 feet
Family Court Building – Government/court/municipal – 15 floors – 265 feet
Penn Medicine at Washington Square – office/retail – 18 floors – 260 feet
3737 Market – office/retail – 13 floors – 221 feet
Chestnut Square – Drexel University dormitory/retail – 19 floors
The View at Montgomery – luxury apartments/retail – 14 floors
1900 Arch – luxury apartments/commercial/retail – 14 floors
Drexel University LeBow College of Business – academic – 13 floors
2040 Market – luxury apartments/commercial/retail – 13 floors
AQ Rittenhouse – luxury apartments/retail – 12 floors


Under Construction

Comcast Innovation & Technology Center – office/hotel/retail – 59 floors – 1,121 ft
FMC Tower at Cira Centre South – office/residential/retail – 49 floors – 730 feet
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia at 700 Schuylkill – office – 23 floors – 375 feet
1919 Market – luxury apartments/office/commercial/retail – 29 floors – 337 feet
3601 Market – luxury apartments/retail – 28 floors – 320 feet
Penn Medicine South Tower– office/medical/research/academic – 19 floors – 302 ft
Buerger Center for Advanced Pediatric Care – medical/retail – 14 floors – 292 feet
The Summit – Drexel University Dormitory/retail – 25 floors – 279 feet
3737 Chestnut – luxury apartments/retail – 25 floors – 278 feet
One Water Street – luxury apartments – 16 floors
Museum Towers II – luxury apartments – 16 floors
1924 Arch – 1900 Arch expansion – luxury apartments – 11 floors
The Study at University City – hotel/retail – 10 floors
Dalian on the Park – luxury apartments/commercial/retail – 10 floors


Site Prep

SLS International Hotel and Residences – hotel/luxury condos - 47 floors – 590 feet
W & Element by Westin – two hotels/retail – 52 floors – 582 feet
500 Walnut – luxury condos/retail – 26 floors – 380 feet
1601 Vine – luxury apartments/retail – 32 floors – 370 feet
1900 Chestnut – luxury apartments/retail – 27 floors – 315 feet
East Market – luxury apartments/retail – 21 floors – 281 feet
One Riverside – luxury condos – 22 floors – 260 feet

[asiandudeyo]

Call me a sucker for tall building, but I did not know that SLS will be that tall! It is awesome.

[kyb01]

Originally Posted by MB1562

So your the one buying that $18M penthouse at the top.

Someone will buy it. The developer is doing what he did for his Rittenhouse tower: advertise in the New Yorker and Sunday New York Times real estate section. No other local developer is doing what this guy does to attract buyers.

[kyb01]

Originally Posted by cpomp

It is part of the 1900 Arch rental complex. The steel topped off last week I believe. Side note, that building is way to stubby for its location.

True. But it beats the surface parking lot that had been there for decades.

[kyb01]

Originally Posted by PhillyPhan95

Yeah, quite an exciting time indeed! The first wave was in UCity with 3737 Chestnut, the Summit, and 3601 Market, and now CTIC and FMC tower are the first of the major projects to rise, then there will be SLS and the W which start to rise, along with (as mentioned) Museum Towers, Market East, Brickstone's projects in "Midtown Village" (as they like to call it), the Dalian, the Mormon Apartment Tower, One Riverside, 1900 Chestnut, and a slew of smaller projects. We're finally past the proposal and approval stages for a lot of these projects, and now it's time for them to rise. Can't wait for them to be fully built so the city can really feel their true economic and social impact. Should be fun to watch over the next few years!

Just an oversight, I'm sure, but there's also Evo right next to FMC.

[kyb01]

Originally Posted by Clark Park

Just hours ago I was on Broad and Spruce St., across from the Kimmel Center, and I was surprised how quickly the building there was demolished. The Market East demolition at 11th and Market seems to be taking a month, but on Broad the building there disappeared in a matter of days.

Probably the fire at Phila. International Records was worse than was reported and the building was just a shell.

[asiandudeyo]

Originally Posted by kyb01

True. But it beats the surface parking lot that had been there for decades.

Can anyone take a picture of it?
Or I know philadelphia development has thread for developing building. But I cannot find the link.
Can anyone kindly put te link here?
I do not know what bldg is being referred here.

[cpomp]

Originally Posted by asiandudeyo

Can anyone take a picture of it?
Or I know philadelphia development has thread for developing building. But I cannot find the link.
Can anyone kindly put te link here?
I do not know what bldg is being referred here.

It is the short blueish building in the center of the picture with the white crane. The Comcast site is teh giant hole next to it.

[kyb01]

Originally Posted by asiandudeyo

Can anyone take a picture of it?
Or I know philadelphia development has thread for developing building. But I cannot find the link.
Can anyone kindly put te link here?
I do not know what bldg is being referred here.

It's a short walk. Well... I don't know where you are, of course.

Just walk north on 19th St to Arch St. Turn left(or go west). The sidewalk is blocked so you will have to be on the north side of Arch.


There are rumors that Comcast wants to buy the land where the Russell Byers School is, in the same block, for
a third tower.