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Planning and development, a look back at 2012
It's been a busy year for planning and development in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia City Planning Commission added more detail to Philadelphia2035, the city's comprehensive plan, by adopting three district-level plans that…
Planning Commission approves plan for Canal Street entertainment complex, with conditions
The Philadelphia City Planning Commission voted on Tuesday to approve—with a handful of key conditions—the Plan of Development for “Canal Street North,” the proposed complex at Delaware and Frankford avenues which…
Canal Street life cycles: creek to development spine
Tiny, meandering Canal Street feels like a place that time forgot. But that is about to change thanks to developer Michael Samschick’s recently announced big plans for Canal Street North, off…
Eyes on the Street: Canal Street life cycles ... creek to development spine
Tiny, meandering Canal Street feels like a place that time forgot. But that is about to change thanks to developer Michael Samschick’s recently announced big plans for Canal Street North, off…
Core Realty presents plan to re-use the former Ajax Metal Works building as a music venue, bowling alley and restaurant
Philadelphia planning commissioners and Fishtown residents seemingly have similar, mostly fond feelings about Core Realty's proposed development for the former Ajax Metal Works and dry ice building.They like the plan…
Waterfront developer plans 3,000-person music venue, restaurants, a bowling alley and a distillery at Ajax Metal Works site
Developer Michael Samschick hopes to transform the former Ajax Metal Works, at Frankford and Delaware avenues in Fishtown, into a 3,000-person music venue, a bowling alley, two restaurants and a distillery.…
Central Delaware Advocacy Group hopeful that Samschick's waterfront plans will be good fit for the Central Delaware
Members of CDAG are hopeful that the plans of a developer who owns a significant swath of the Central Delaware Riverfront will line up nicely with the city's goals.As detailed…
Inside Pennthouses | Church of the Assumption case at Common Pleas | WCRP's bank demo, development draws ire | O'Brien on Harrisburg
Developer Michael Samschick took PlanPhilly’s Kellie Patrick Gates around his residential reuse of the auto-storage buildings at Brown Street and Delaware Avenue. Samschick showed off the building’s “smart” tech features, talked…
Apartments fashioned from former auto storage buildings launch a large, mixed-use development with major riverfront implications
When developer Michael Samschick first toured the former auto-storage building he is converting into rental apartments, he cut a hole into a fifth-floor wall.Through it, he saw the Delaware River…
Will Penn Treaty Village reuse more waterfront industrial buildings?
What is Michael Samschick planning for his Penn Treaty Village development? Is O Havana real? Like River Ward neighbors, our curiosity is piqued. PlanPhilly’s Kellie Patrick Gates has been following the…
Will Penn Treaty Village reuse more waterfront industrial buildings?
What is Michael Samschick planning for his Penn Treaty Village development? Is O Havana real? Like River Ward neighbors, our curiosity is piqued. PlanPhilly’s Kellie Patrick Gates has been following the…
Developer working on Master Plan for his Delaware Avenue properties
Philadelphia developer Michael Samschick is developing a master plan for the properties he owns along Delaware Avenue.Among Samschick's holdings: The 1000 and 1100 blocks of North Delaware Avenue, which includes…
Confab with waterfront developer could shed light on hotel mystery
Fishtown and Northern Liberties community leaders hope to find out next week what plans Michael Samschick has for his Delaware Avenue properties – and whether or not he is working with…
What the heck is O Havana?
Is there a new luxury waterfront hotel coming to the Delaware Waterfront? Kellie Patrick Gates has a wild story on PlanPhilly today about O Havana, a mysterious development that has residents…
Old nautical supply building in Fishtown on its way to a new life
Developer Michael Samschick hopes to revitalize and re-use the Edward Corner Marine Building and fill in the rest of the now-vacant block on the west side of Delaware Avenue at Shackamaxon…
