A milestone has been reached, if at least digitally. The Divine Lorraine website has launched. And so the plan continues to convert the Divine Lorraine Hotel into a mixed-use development consortium of residential, restaurants, and retail.
Digital Development: New Divine Lorraine Website Plus Pics – Development Watch – Curbed Philly.
For Dave Kyu, the messages hovering over Philadelphia would represent almost two years of work. But his masterpiece would literally fade away in minutes.
Midday Sunday, five World War II-style aircraft took off from Long Island to make the 45-minute trip to Philadelphia to realize Kyu’s project, Write Sky.
The planes would spell out three messages, composed by teams of people who live and work in Philadelphia’s Callowhill neighborhood, above the entire city.
Why you may have seen ‘typed’ letters above Philadelphia yesterday – Technical.ly Philly.
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The Loft District is looking less and less like the “Eraserhood” every day. This fall, Franklin Mortgage and Lemon Hill alum Mike Welsh will open Brick & Mortar, a neighborhood American tavern, at 314 North 12th Street. Welsh, who has partnered with a cohort of industry vets on the project, is targeting early November for the launch of the full-service restaurant with full bar.
Brick & Mortar: New Loft District Bar From Franklin Mortgage Alum Mike Welsh | cocktails – Zagat.
Billy Procida, a real estate lender from Englewood Cliffs, N.J., is coming to the rescue of the stalled Divine Lorraine project on North Broad Street, agreeing to lend $31.5 million to kick-start a conversion of the graffiti-scarred historic building.
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The Rail Park goes live tomorrow morning [Earth Day!], April 22 at 10am, for a conversation with Marty Moss Coane on WHYY’s Radio Times. Friends of the Rail Park’s Leah Murphy, Paul Levy of Center City District, and co-editor of Hidden City Daily, Nathaniel Popkin, will discuss the past, present, and possible and take your calls. Tune in to 90.9 FM
Callowhill Neighborhood Association
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Caryn Kunkle has lived in [the] neighborhood since 2006, and she’s heard all the stories: the homeless people who’ve gone inside to live; the Temple kid who fell through a floor and broke his legs; the numerous fires that break out there each year. She wants to put an end to all those dangers.
But that’s not all she wants.
After years of organizing, raising money, and drafting proposals, their efforts – and those of the politicians and professional planners who joined the cause – finally appear ready to bear fruit. Without fanfare, the city and the state have included millions of dollars in their latest budgets toward the first phase of the project: transforming the quarter-mile railroad “spur” that curves through the city’s burgeoning Loft District and dead-ends onto North Broad Street.
A new eatery opening in Center City in Philadelphia will have an unusual business model.
The founders are creating the business as a cooperative — where profits will be shared among the business’s employees.
They’ll have what everyone’s having: Coffee bar co-op planned for the Eraserhood — NewsWorks.
Now on the way is W/N W/N, a combo coffeeshop by day and bar by night, and it will occupy the long-vacant Siam Lotus space at 931 Spring Garden St. Target date is June 1, but the lease was just signed.
According to the L&I Map, plans are now in motion for six new buildings on this site. Each building will be four stories tall, and will contain four apartments. Two parking spots will be included with each property. Parking will be accessed via Hamilton Street, where a couple of older buildings are being demolished. Harman Deutsch is doing the architecture work.
A Bundle of Apartments Getting Started on Noble Street | Naked Philly.
