Many developments near Rittenhouse Square are about to transform the local skyline. At number four on Philly YIMBY’s December 2020 Development Countdown is 113-121 South 19th Street, a slender tower proposed at a site that spans five properties, all of which will maintain their façades within the new tower’s base. This Center City tower will rise 567 feet and 49 stories high and is designed by DAS Architecture and Planning and developed by Pearl Properties, which has a handful of developments in progress across the city. Philly YIMBY’s recent site visit captures the buildings that currently stand at the site.
The façade will have a mix of stone, metal, and glass cladding all around the tower. The building will have a very slim profile with estimated dimensions of 75 by 70 feet, with the wider faces on the north and south sides, and will yield 267,874 square feet of space and 183 residential units with balconies on most floors of the south side of the tower.
The plans for the building were recently revealed last month in a Civic Design Review document.
113-121 South 19th Street. Credit: Thomas Koloski
113-121 South 19th Street from the corner of South 19th Street and Sansom Street. Photo by Thomas Koloski
Future space for the slender tower at 113-121 South 19th Street. Photo by Thomas Koloski
The tower will stand just half a block away from Pearl Properties’ other development, the 272-foot Harper project that was completed in 2019. The site of the building is located two blocks to the north of Rittenhouse Square, a park that spans six acres and was completed in 1683. A concept for a similarly sized tower was recently leaked for the CVS Pharmacy to the north of the site at 1826 Chestnut Street.
No completion date has yet been announced.
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I previously worked at the corner building when it was a night club@ The Mansion @ Rittenhouse..curious would anyone have pics of that establishment when it was thriving as a night club?????