Philadelphia YIMBY’s recent site visit has noted that construction work has not yet begun at the site of a 42-story-story high-rise proposed at 1826 Chestnut Street in Rittenhouse Square, Center City. Ostensibly developed by Goodman Properties. The development’s location next to the proposed high-rise at 113-121 South 19th Street suggests a height of around 550 feet.
Philly YIMBY’s recent site visit has observed that construction continues to progress at Broad and Washington, a 15-story, 1,111-unit complex at 1001 South Broad Street in Hawthorne, South Philadelphia. Designed by the BKV Group, the development will span an entire city block at the northeast corner of the intersection of Broad Street and Washington Avenue. The 1,516,218-square-foot project will cost nearly $306 million to build.
Philly YIMBY’s recent site visit has observed that construction is underway at a 149-unit mixed-use development at 1314-32 Spring Garden Street in Callowhill, Lower North Philadelphia. Designed by Volumetric Building Companies, the new building will feature ground-floor commercial space and a green roof.
Philly YIMBY’s recent site visit has observed that construction is nearly complete at a four-story, nine-unit residential structure at 608 South American Street in Queen Village, South Philadelphia. The new structure replaces a joined pair of prewar rowhouses on the west side of the block between South Street and Bainbridge Street. Designed by Gnome Architects, the new building will span 9,173 square feet and will feature a basement and two private roof decks. Permits list Cassidy McGrath as the contractor and specify a construction cost of $1.2 million.
A recent site visit by Philadelphia YIMBY has noted no signs of new development at a pair of parking lots spanning nearly two entire city blocks at 1222 Vine Street in Chinatown, Center City, just north of the Convention Center, held by the Parkway Corporation as a potential development site. Parkway is notable for holding and operating parking lots throughout the city and beyond and, when a favorable opportunity arises, redeveloping them, whether on their own or with a partner. The case at 1222 Vine Street appears to be the latter, as the site is listed on Parkway’s “opportunities” page. The combined site spans somewhere between 52,728 to 62,840 square feet and, under its CMX-4 zoning, may by right yield well over 600,000 square feet of development space it built to a floor-area-ratio of 12 to 1.
