Projects

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Size: 950,000 SF
Cost: $400,000,000
Completion: 2018

Bounded by Market, Chestnut, 11th & 12th streets, East Market bridges Philadelphia’s historic and business districts. The $400 million first phase of the residential-retail-office project re-imagined an ageng and underutilized section along Market Street, the city’s primary east-west corridor, into a dynamic full block of leading stores and popular restaurants. Phase one comprised 175,000 square feet of new Class A, LEED-certified creative office space in a reskinned former department store, now known as 1100 Ludlow, and more than 560 luxury apartments in two towers, the Ludlow and the Girard. The Girard, has 180 market-rate apartments as well as 60 furnished suites operated under the ROOST extended stay hotel brand. The two towers on their retail bases are connected by a reinvented, pedestrian-friendly Ludlow Street streetscape and a 35-foot wide pedestrian walkway spanning Market Street to Ludlow, and, in subsequent phases, to Chestnut Street. We were subsequently reponsible for the architectural design of the Ludlow and were architects of record for the Girard. The historic Girard building was converted into a hotel as a part of the second phase.

East Market is helping redefine and enhance the entire district east of City Hall and turn the area into a magnet for working, living, and enjoying all of the benefits that a great city like Philadelphia has to offer.