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PHILAPHILIA: Dead-Ass Proposal of the Week - Enterprise Heights
This complex at 46th and Market could have renewed energy in an extremely sorry area of the city, but it just never happened. To be fair, an extremely down-scaled version of this might actually be built, so not all hope is lost.
PHILAPHILIA: Dead-Ass Proposal of the Week — Enterprise Heights
This time, the plaza would be a 100,000-square-foot building with large retail spaces and three floors of offices. Rumors swirled that the anchor tenant would be the Citizen and Immigration Services Office. Then ... all news about this project seemed to go kaput. The page of the TEC-CDC website about it went blank. Citizens and Immigration Services committed themselves to the new office building with the dumbest named ever, 2.0 University Place, slated for 30 N. 40th St. Last fall, some of the land that the Plaza at Enterprise Heights would be sitting on was cleared of old buildings, but other than that, there's been no news. Will this motherfucker EVER happen?
Meanwhile, the neighborhood is now showing new signs of life, and the TEC-CDC has been up to plenty of other good shit. Recently, they've created an urban farm near the 46th Street (FARRUGUT STREET!) El stop, and they're in the process of creating a Center for Culinary Enterprises out of a crappy old supermarket on 48th Street. The Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company Building will soon become home to the Philadelphia Police Department, which will change the area in a myriad of ways. Still, it's sad that the Enterprise Heights Complex wasn't able to get off the ground. If it had been built on schedule, it would have transformed the neighborhood by now. Here's hoping that the Plaza part can get going some time soon.
Meanwhile, the neighborhood is now showing new signs of life, and the TEC-CDC has been up to plenty of other good shit. Recently, they've created an urban farm near the 46th Street (FARRUGUT STREET!) El stop, and they're in the process of creating a Center for Culinary Enterprises out of a crappy old supermarket on 48th Street. The Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company Building will soon become home to the Philadelphia Police Department, which will change the area in a myriad of ways. Still, it's sad that the Enterprise Heights Complex wasn't able to get off the ground. If it had been built on schedule, it would have transformed the neighborhood by now. Here's hoping that the Plaza part can get going some time soon.
It was even going to incorporate old buildings on its Market Street side!
Last week's story: Empty Lot of the Week — Abbott's Drexel Hole
Comments (2)
It's at least nice that the Provident Mutual Life building's getting used for the police station. That building is too amazing to let sit vacant, and the police department deserves a regal as hell building for its headquarters.— thegreengrass- Actually, Farragut St. changes its name to 46th St. north of Market St., so the station's name is not entirely inappropriate.— littleguy
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