American Commerce Center

14Mar08

Oh snaps!

Late-breaking news on phillyskyline:

“Garrett Miller knew this going into concept: ‘it has to be engaging at the street level, or else it is a failure.’ The pedestrian fabric is as much a part of American Commerce Center (ACC) as is its height. Along 18th Street, following the natural direction of (vehicular) traffic, the pedestrian is greeted with a mini-plaza that will be home to a café and the three-story lobby of the hotel. At 19th & Arch, the main entrance of the office tower amplifies the corner by the tower’s massing being sliced — chamfered — back from the street corner.”

The city’s abuzz with this new development, timed perfectly-so at the heels of the Comcast Center. More for now found below, though certainly there’s much more to come:

Phillyskyline – the journalist
Walnut Street Capital – the developers
Kohn Penderson Fox – the architects
ACC Tower – the official site
Skyscraper Page – the professionals
Phillyblog thread – the public

*Update from DAG*   The American Commerce Center (the proposed new 63 story skyscraper at 18th and Arch) will be presented at DAG at our next monthly meeting on Thursday, April 3, 8AM at Temple University Center City (1515 Market Street). Garrett Miller, the President of Walnut Street Capital and architects Bill Louie and Lloyd Sigal of Kohn Pederson Fox, will make the presentation.

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