Like the university next to it, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has designs on land on the east bank of the Schuylkill: in its case, a nearly 2.2-million-square-foot office/research/commercial development on the site of the former John F. Kennedy Vocational School at Graduate Hospital’s western edge.
CHOP representatives gave a presentation on the hospital’s plans to area residents at the South of South Neighborhood Association’s May 7 meeting. When completed sometime after 2022, the project will have 1.562 million square feet of office and research space in three towers, 1,440 parking spaces, and open space that will tie into the Schuylkill River Trail extension currently being built by the Schuylkill River Development Corporation.
The first phase features a 23-story, 559,000-square-foot office tower, the tallest of the planned three towers. According to the presentation, 546,000 square feet of the tower will be office-based research space. Also in the first phase are 17,000 square feet of interim commercial space and 167,000 square feet of support space, including a 600-space parking podium, plus a plaza adjacent to the South Street bridge that will include Schuylkill River Trail access.
While most of the space in the development will be used by CHOP, the complex may also include a hotel down the road. No date for groundbreaking on the first phase has yet been set, as the project is now in the design review phase. Because of this, the images and renderings shown here, which are from the CHOP presentation to SOSNA, are conceptual; the actual structures and their sitting may be different after review and approvals.
Source: Philadelphia Real Estate Blog
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