The 7th place on Philadelphia YIMBY’s December 2021 Development Countdown goes to the 460-foot-tall, 32-story office tower planned at 1301 Market Street in Market East, Center City, half a block to the east of City Hall. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and developed by the Oliver Tyrone Pulver Corporation, the building will yield over 700,000 square feet, with floor plates at the lower levels measuring over 25,000 square feet and those at the upper floors at over 17,000 square feet.
1301 Market Street. Credit: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
1301 Market Street. Model by Thomas Koloski
1301 Market Street will represent a significant expansion of the business core, both at the skyline level and in terms of square footage, to the east of City Hall, as the majority of office skyscrapers are currently located in the western section of Center City. Features such as floor-to-ceiling windows and landscaped outdoor terraces will provide a major attraction to office tenants, as few to none of the commercial structures in the immediate vicinity offer similar perks.
The developer maintains an active website advertising the proposal, which focuses on features such as its nigh-unparalleled transit accessibility (the City Hall Station on the Broad Street Line, the 15th Street Station on the Market-Frankford Line, and the 13th Street trolley station all sit directly next door, and the Jefferson Station of the regional rail is located two blocks to the east). However, no permits have yet been filed, and, as expected, our site visit revealed no construction activity, with the parking lot still operating at the site.
1301 Market Street. Photo by Jamie Meller. December 2021.
1301 Market Street. Photo by Jamie Meller. December 2021.
1301 Market Street. Photo by Jamie Meller. December 2021.
1301 Market Street. Photo by Jamie Meller. December 2021.
1301 Market Street. Photo by Jamie Meller. December 2021.
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This is a good place to site an office building until you can convince law firms to consider taking space in Don Pulver’s well designed building with ease of access to public transportation and the Regional Rail. It just takes ONE law firm to have the balls to sign on the dotted line for space!
More glass…
Any news on Groundbrake? This Would Be a great addition
In 1959 my boarding school bussed us to the site’s Family Theatre to see Keys of the Kingdom, a book in our sophomore English.
More than a few parents were horrified we went to an all-night three films for a dollar moviehouse.
We lads babbled excitedly all the way back to Devon Prep how we talked to winos seated all around us, gave them our change
Wasn’t Chubb insurance supposed to build a new HQ in Philly?
As long as welfare children run a muck in our city nobody renting in philly, I’m embarrassed to call it my birthplace
The city won’t clean out the homeless from 13th and Market. This the perception of dirty filthy winos laying on the sidewalk hurts Pulver’s efforts to find businesses to take over floors
You clean out trash, not human beings. I would take the homeless over a building full of lawyers any day of the week.
in response to Mayor Keeny: Mayor, pif that is your position what are you doing to housing the homeless..?? talk is cheap, now as the end of the year is here, make a statement of how many homeless singles and families the city has housed during 2021.