Six Philadelphia Center City office buildings being converted into apartments

what the fuck is a "small footplate"? dumbass

"downtown Philadelphia"?

get the fuck outta here. no one calls it that.

Small footprint easily riled r1?

For the homeless and poor?

Phoot-place.

Where I puts my phoot up Donald's ass before pee on him.

When he good.

Wheech seldom.

Likely not, likely more $3000 studios that the city really doesn’t need.

I would still rather be in Deplorable Haven. FL than [italic]ever[/italic] live in Philly.

Philly is a hole.

The city does need it, r6. Apartments are running close to capacity in the area. There’s been an influx of younger people coming in for years.

Fuck the Philadelphia Inquirer. I just got a notice on Tuesday saying the cost of an e-subscription will rise from $165/year currently to $285/year.

Obviously, they're looking to drive subscribers away and/or go out of business.

Those office buildings should be filled with workers!

R10 many of the workers are for the most part home working now

Nothing regarding affordable housing though. So many abandoned homes in the city that have potential for affordable housing but they’re either bulldozed and/or turned into overpriced condos or apartments.

More cities should be doing this.

r7, happy not to encounter you then, bitch

It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

We have a ton of empty office buildings in Boston that could be converted to housing.

The cost factor is the current excuse but I think that affordable housing in vacant office towers seems reasonable.

I’m not creating an account just to see the buildings

Can you post the list here

To R9-the Inquirer fucking blows, do not pay for that. Why does anyone read the Philly newspapers at all?

If you do, I will find out where you live& show up at your home and slap you viciously across your face.

because we live in philly and the paper is good

You don’t need an account to see the buildings?

17 Market West at 1701 Market St

Three Parkway at 1601 Cherry St.

Public Ledger Bldg at 101 S. Sixth St.

Bellevue on S. Broadway

2100 Arch St

400 Market St.

Some are under construction, some are half completed and people already moving in, a couple not yet begun. No info re size/rent.

The buildings being converted are:

1701 Market St. 3 Parkway Public Ledger Building The Bellevue, South Broad and Walnut (the office portion is being converted to apartments) 2100 Arch St. 400 Market St.

Just yesterday, part of the old Hahnemann Hospital complex was sold to a developer for conversion to apartments/hotel.

No word on the huge, vacant Wanamaker building and the largely vacant Center Square East and West buildings.

For the ones that have too large a footprint, sell/rent them out as artist spaces.

Thak you for re-typing South Broad St& Walnut St., not Broadway.

Can someone create a non-paywalled version please?

The spell check on my iPad is super aggressive with the latest iOS release. The Bellevue formerly known as the Bellevue Stratford and home to the original outbreak of Legionnaires Disease is located on S. BROAD.

I hope this comes with more traffic and retail at street level. What makes Philly do depressing is the lack of street retail and all these huge empty commercial spaces in new construction.

"I hope this comes with more traffic and retail at street level."

Why? The well-heeled residents of Center City will still jump in their cars to shop out at King of Prussia Mall.

Face it, KofP Mall is the retail headquarters of Metro Philly now, not Center City.

This has been happening since well before COVID. Offices began shifting to telework in the 2010s and before/ The commercial office market began cratering in the suburbs during that period because most of those buildings can't easily be converted into anything else. The urban office market also has been in decline, although because older buildings in downtowns often can be converted to housing, the situation isn't as bad. These conversions have been happening in quite a few cities.

All in all a good thing

All Section 8 by 2028.

The public leger building is stunning