The North Philadelphia skyline is about to transform in a significant way thanks to The Legacy on Broad, a 329-foot, 28-story-tall high-rise proposed at 1518-28 North Broad Street next to the Temple University campus. Designed by Cube 3 Studio and developed by Landmark Properties, the tower will surpass Temple’s nearby 302-foot-tall, 28-story Morgan Hall North at 1601 North Broad Street to become the tallest building in North Central Philadelphia. The development will span 360,798 square feet and offer 289 residential units, comprised of 147 group living units and 142 multi-family apartments. The residences will be geared primarily to university students and will hold a total of 868 beds. The project will also include over 21,079 square feet of ground-floor retail space, parking for 78 cars and 100 bicycles, and over 6,000 square feet of outdoor public space.
Legacy on Broad at 1518-28 North Broad Street. Building rendering. Credit: CUBE 3 Studio LLC via the Civic Design Review
Legacy on Broad at 1518-28 North Broad Street. Building rendering. Credit: CUBE 3 Studio LLC via the Civic Design Review
Legacy on Broad at 1518-28 North Broad Street. Building rendering. Credit: CUBE 3 Studio LLC via the Civic Design Review
Legacy on Broad at 1518-28 North Broad Street. Building rendering. Credit: CUBE 3 Studio LLC via the Civic Design Review
Legacy on Broad at 1518-28 North Broad Street. Building elevation. Credit: CUBE 3 Studio LLC via the Civic Design Review
Legacy on Broad at 1518-28 North Broad Street. Site plan. Credit: CUBE 3 Studio LLC via the Civic Design Review
Legacy on Broad at 1518-28 North Broad Street. Ground floor plan. Credit: CUBE 3 Studio LLC via the Civic Design Review
The project, also known as Legacy on Broad (without the preceding article), will consist of an 11-story, 117-foot-tall podium, consistent in scale with a number of nearby structures, and a signature tower that will face its broad side toward Broad Street (pardon the pun). Residential amenities will include lounge areas, study rooms, a fitness center, a dog wash, and a roof deck with a pool. The parking garage will be situated underground.
The Legacy on Broad will be a much-welcome addition to Temple University and North Philadelphia as a whole. The development will add nearly a thousand beds to a campus with an acute need for student housing, fitted onto a relatively small plot of land situated at a prime location next to the Cecil B. Moore station on the Broad Street subway line and adjacent to ample retail and entertainment facilities (Avenue North, a two-story, approximately 90,000-square-foot commercial building containing retail and an AMC movie theater, sits across the street to the north).
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Philadelphia is developing a new urban core outside Downtown/University City; and this has great promise in the coming decades.
Yup!
North Philadelphia as a when will actually be nodal in the future. With the Time area, the Northern Liberties/Lower Fishtown node, the Broad & Erie area, North Philadelphia Station area and it’s apparent that the American Street corridor between John and Lehigh Ave is destined to become a destination.
Yup!
North Philadelphia as a whole will actually be nodal in the future. With the Temple area, the Northern Liberties/Lower Fishtown node, the Broad & Erie area, North Philadelphia Station area and it’s apparent that the American Street corridor between John and Lehigh Ave is destined to become a destination.
Awful!
Looks great for its location.