Philadelphia vs Pittsburgh (Carnegie, Franklin, Wall: mover, rail, teach)

[kyb01]

Originally Posted by MarketStEl

The article itself won't be up on Phillymag.com for at least a week if not longer, but the May issue should be on a newsstand near you by Friday if you live in the Greater Philadelphia region.

I'll give you its title here:

"The Good News Is, One City in Pennsylvania Is Poised to Crush the 21st Century. The Bad News?"

Is there a philly mag policy that is preventing you from giving us a preview now?

[RightonWalnut]

Philly’s 13 tallest buildings by 2020, mapped
Read more here:http://philly.curbed.com/maps/philad...lest-buildings

Nasdaq PHLX Trading Floor Now Open at FMC Tower
Read more at Nasdaq PHLX Trading Floor Now Open at FMC Tower

These 8 Startups Are in Ben Franklin’s First Fintech Accelerator Class
Read more at These 8 Startups Are in Ben Franklin

[RightonWalnut]

Philadelphia - Mapping North Broad's development boom
Read more here: http://philly.curbed.com/maps/north-...pment-projects

PMC's Schuylkill-side towers are approved by city commission in step forward for project
The project will be built on a parking lot along the Schuylkill River in Center City's Logan Square neighborhood. It includes luxury apartments and retail in a 31 and 28 story tower. Read more here: PMC's Schuylkill-side towers are approved by city commission in step forward for project

Center City health tech company acquires MontCo firm following major investment
Company moved from Princeton, NJ to Center City last year and has already grown from 30 to 80 employees. They have now acquired a MontCo tech company and will grow to 110 employees at their Center City office. Read more here: http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelp...alth-care.html

[Blackbeauty212]

Fyi

recycling firm moving from ny to pittsburgh

a recycling startup plans to relocate its headquarters and about 30 employees to pittsburgh from new york and expects to hire 40-50 locally by year-end.

Roadrunner recycling ceo graham rihn said he is close to signing a lease of about 20,000 square feet in an undisclosed location in pittsburgh.

The three-year-old company raised $8.8 million last month in a financing round led by sewickley-based adams capital management with some angel investors. The money will go toward establishing the headquarters, hiring and product development, plus increasing the number of cities where roadrunner does business. At present, it operates satellite offices in pittsburgh, philadelphia and washington, d.c. Rihn wants to add another five cities by the end of the first quarter of 2018. He did not identify the sites.

http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburg...h.html?ana=twt

amazon hiring software engineers in pittsburgh for promotions platform

amazon.com is ramping up hires of software developers at its pittsburgh office in the city’s southside works development, increasing technical staffing around its promotions platform.

The seattle-based ecommerce giant has about 20 openings here and is looking to add several software development engineers for the promotions platform. This unit, which is managed by brandon chang, a carnegie mellon university alum, is responsible for creating, messaging and calculating discounts for promotional campaigns for all amazon websites around the world

http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburg...eers-here.html

bny mellon cutting in philly, moving some operations to pittsburgh

the bank of new york mellon corp. Is moving some business support functions to pittsburgh as it cuts staff on the other side of the state.

Bny mellon (nyse:bk) is laying off 280 employees at its offices in philadelphia effective oct. 9, according to a worker adjustment and retraining notification act notice filed with the commonwealth.

http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburg...e.html?ana=twt

forget the potentially damaging lawsuit—uber is hiring like mad for its driverless-cars business

https://qz.com/962670/uber-is-hiring...phabets-waymo/

comcast consolidates operations in pittsburgh, moves 78 central pennsylvania tech support jobs

as comcast moves to combine its workforce operations teams in the region, 78 positions in lancaster will be moved to a new, centralized facility in pittsburgh.

The philadelphia-based company filed a legal notice with the state's department of labor and industry in advance of the change, which goes into effect may 17, 2017.

Comcast consolidates operations in Pittsburgh, moves 78 central Pennsylvania tech support jobs | FierceCable

[RightonWalnut]

Originally Posted by Blackbeauty212

Fyi

Your BNY Mellon article cutting jobs in Philly is from 2015 - nice try sneaking that in there. The office space they let go of in the BNY Mellon Center in Philly that housed those 280 employees has already been 100% re-leased for well over a year now.

...and your Comcast article about them moving 78 jobs from Central, PA to Pittsburgh is from December, 2016 and I'm pretty sure has already been posted by you in this thread. Comcast is adding about 100 new employees a month in Philadelphia.

The recycling firm one is really the only significant and interesting news. Keep on trying to embellish though lol.

[MarketStEl]

Originally Posted by kyb01

Is there a philly mag policy that is preventing you from giving us a preview now?

No, no policy; it's just that articles in the print mag aren't immediately posted to the website. When it goes up, I'll post it.

[MarketStEl]

Originally Posted by cpomp

Is it a trick title? King of Prussia? Conshohocken?

Again, I can't post a link yet because the article isn't posted on the website, but I can tell you that the print edition article opens with a two-page spread of the Golden Triangle, an aerial photo looking towards the point.

[kyb01]

Originally Posted by MarketStEl

No, no policy; it's just that articles in the print mag aren't immediately posted to the website. When it goes up, I'll post it.

Okay, but I assume you already know what's in the article and what it's about. Tell us.

[MarketStEl]

Originally Posted by kyb01

Okay, but I assume you already know what's in the article and what it's about. Tell us.

Well, the headline and photo are a good teaser, but you're right that they don't get to the substance.

I can sum it up in a quote from Drexel President John Fry* that appears in the article. He's speaking to the Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia about cities competing to be the "first movers" on the cutting edge of technology commercialization in the decades ahead. Both Pittsburgh and Philadelphia have all the ingredients in place to be one of those two dozen or so cities, but Fry dinged Philadelphia as being too complacent:

"There are other cities that are as close as Pittsburgh...and they do have a sense of urgency. And they don't suffer from complacency. And as we sit down to breakfast, they're planning to eat our lunch."

The article from this point on reads as though Blackbeauty212 herself could have written it. (And the quote appears past the jump. The article up to that point describes the high-tech ferment in the 'Burgh, the yeasty sourdough for which Carnegie Mellon University is the starter, and the hard-charging University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, now housed in the city's tallest skyscraper, the former HQ of U.S. Steel, and its plans to encroach on Penn Medicine's turf in the not too distant.)

Put simply, both of Pennsylvania's principal cities now have economies built on bedrock that consists of eds and meds. But Pittsburghers are pushing theirs to do more than just teach and heal, where we're content to let ours go on doing well what they've long been doing well. (I exaggerate: Pennovation Works and Schuylkill Yards aren't chopped liver. But the one's nascent and the other's still blueprints. The spinoffs are already coming fast and furious in Pittsburgh. One of them, mentioned in the article, began in the mind of a Philadelphian but couldn't gain traction in this city's tech-startup community, which it seems is more narrowly focused on certain sectors. Guess where it's located now?)

And there's that "who you know matters more than what you know" aspect to this city's various business, media, political and financial communities. That's an obstacle to real innovation, and some Philadelphians quoted in the article point that out.

*I think you know that I think Fry learned a lot of valuable lessons about universities as economic development engines in getting knocked about during his trial run at Penn and has been applying them where he's gone since. Drexel's definitely punching above its weight now, and I attribute that to one part Fry's leadership and one part a Board of Trustees (or whatever Drexel calls its governing board) larded with overachievers.

[kyb01]

Originally Posted by MarketStEl

Well, the headline and photo are a good teaser, but you're right that they don't get to the substance.

I can sum it up in a quote from Drexel President John Fry* that appears in the article. He's speaking to the Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia about cities competing to be the "first movers" on the cutting edge of technology commercialization in the decades ahead. Both Pittsburgh and Philadelphia have all the ingredients in place to be one of those two dozen or so cities, but Fry dinged Philadelphia as being too complacent:

"There are other cities that are as close as Pittsburgh...and they do have a sense of urgency. And they don't suffer from complacency. And as we sit down to breakfast, they're planning to eat our lunch."

The article from this point on reads as though Blackbeauty212 herself could have written it. (And the quote appears past the jump. The article up to that point describes the high-tech ferment in the 'Burgh, the yeasty sourdough for which Carnegie Mellon University is the starter, and the hard-charging University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, now housed in the city's tallest skyscraper, the former HQ of U.S. Steel, and its plans to encroach on Penn Medicine's turf in the not too distant.)

Put simply, both of Pennsylvania's principal cities now have economies built on bedrock that consists of eds and meds. But Pittsburghers are pushing theirs to do more than just teach and heal, where we're content to let ours go on doing well what they've long been doing well. (I exaggerate: Pennovation Works and Schuylkill Yards aren't chopped liver. But the one's nascent and the other's still blueprints. The spinoffs are already coming fast and furious in Pittsburgh. One of them, mentioned in the article, began in the mind of a Philadelphian but couldn't gain traction in this city's tech-startup community, which it seems is more narrowly focused on certain sectors. Guess where it's located now?)

And there's that "who you know matters more than what you know" aspect to this city's various business, media, political and financial communities. That's an obstacle to real innovation, and some Philadelphians quoted in the article point that out.

*I think you know that I think Fry learned a lot of valuable lessons about universities as economic development engines in getting knocked about during his trial run at Penn and has been applying them where he's gone since. Drexel's definitely punching above its weight now, and I attribute that to one part Fry's leadership and one part a Board of Trustees (or whatever Drexel calls its governing board) larded with overachievers.

The new Fed budget, plus the sanctuary city issue, will probably greatly impact both cities so it remains to be seen how damaging that could be over all.