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Neighborhood: <span>Logan Square</span>

It is named for Logan Square, one of the five "squares", or parks, central to William Penn's design for Philadelphia. The square itself, originally called Northwest Square, was named for James Logan, an eighteenth-century mayor of Philadelphia. Nestled between the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and Philadelphia's beautiful Rittenhouse Square Park, Logan Square is in walking distance to The Art Museum, Fairmount Park, Center City and more.  Logan Square has fantastic restaurants, retail shopping, and nightlife.  Other close neighborhoods include Fitler Square, Graduate Hospital, Grays Ferry, Center City.  Home to Temple University's Moore College of Art and just minutes from the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) and Drexel University areas via the Market Street bridge.

Newly Designated Historic Buildings Will Stick Around at 17th & Race

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Jan, 23, 2023 | No Comments | Logan Square
We here at Naked Philly like to bang the drum for increased density, increased height, increased commercial presence, and basically increased everything when it comes to land use, especially in Center City. However, not all proposals that would lead to these outcomes are built the same. Nary a tear is shed when a surface parking lot disappears or a dilapidated building is demolished and replaced with a good-looking project that better serves the needs of [...]
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Callowhill Apartments Getting Close to Completion on a Lonely Block

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Dec, 05, 2022 | No Comments | Logan Square
Seemingly every day, more and more of greater Center City - defined here as river to river, from Girard Ave. to the north and Tasker St. to the south - becomes denser, with vacant lots, parking lots, and other underutilized spaces biting the dust. The property at 1823 Callowhill St. is rising on one of those former lots, where The Baldwin is adding 57 one- and two-bedroom apartments to the fold. As you can see [...]
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Edgewater II Progressing Well on Former Logan Square Parking Lot

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Nov, 01, 2022 | No Comments | Logan Square
If you get off the harrowing 23rd Street exit from 676, you'll whiz past a property at the corner of 23rd & Summer, and until quite recently, you probably wouldn't have given it much thought. A surface parking lot until just recently, plans have long been in place for a residential tower to rise as a second phase to the Edgewater apartments, which were completed back in 2003. However, in January of this year, we [...]
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115 Units Above Ground Along Busy 23rd Street in Logan Square

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Oct, 10, 2022 | No Comments | Logan Square
It was just a couple weeks back when we stopped by a little sliver of development in Logan Square, where a mixed-use tower is slated to rise. While we were over there, we cruised up N. 23rd St. to check out the action nearby. Things are nearly wrapped up at the two-tower Riverwalk project that fronts the river, but another project at the northeast corner of 23rd & Cherry has joined the construction mix. While [...]
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Chubb Office Tower Will Replace Parking Lot at 20th & Arch

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Sep, 28, 2022 | No Comments | Logan Square
You may know this by now given the hundreds of times this has come up previously, but we are none too fond of surface parking lots, most especially in and around Center City. So it was with delight that we reported in April on the lot at 2000-24 Arch St. making a turn from parking to office. We knew at the time that the historic gas station currently on site would make a shift north [...]
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Signs of Activity Near the Tracks for Curvy Logan Square Tower Proposal

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Sep, 22, 2022 | No Comments | Logan Square
As we make the shift from summer to fall, we try to appreciate the remaining warm, sunny days before the inevitability of cold, dark, rainy evenings enter our day-to-day lives. And what better place to do that than along the glorious Schuylkill Banks? We are apparently not alone in that thinking, as huge projects are popping up all along Center City's western waterfront. One such project is proposed at 2301 JFK Blvd., where we reported [...]
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Update: A Walkthrough of the Brand-new Renderings for Calder Gardens

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Sep, 14, 2022 | No Comments | Logan Square
It was only a week ago when we dropped new renderings for the eagerly anticipated Calder Gardens, a brand-new gallery coming to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. We had some idea of what was to come, but details were scant, which was especially intriguing giving the unorthodox design featuring a mix of structured subterranean galleries and lush gardens to showcase Alexander Calder's works. But thanks to a recent submission to the Art Commission, we now have [...]
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Update: Calder Gardens on the Parkway Looks to Reinvent What a “Museum” Can Be

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Sep, 07, 2022 | No Comments | Logan Square
It was just last week when we dropped the news that things appeared to be moving forward for the Alexander Calder "sanctuary" that had long been planned for the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. We had zoning documents to give us some idea of what to expect, but we are happy to report that thanks to an Inquirer article from Inga Saffron, that blurry vision has now come into focus. We had mentioned that plans from Herzog [...]
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Permits Issued for Alexander Calder “Sanctuary” on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway

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Aug, 30, 2022 | No Comments | Logan Square
The Benjamin Franklin Parkway is one of the more striking boulevards in the entire country, if we may offer up a rather Philly-centric perspective. It's great, with all the trees and museums and such, evoking the Champs Elysees but lacking a giant arch. Yeah, we know it's a challenge to navigate for cars and pedestrians alike. And it ain't too great for folks on bikes, either. Thankfully, there is a push by the City to [...]
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Historic Gas Station Will Move for Logan Square Office Tower

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Apr, 05, 2022 | No Comments | Logan Square
It can be quite interesting to see what people consider historic. While large, highly-ornate buildings from centuries ago are usually easy to spot as being "contributing" from an architectural standpoint, other times it can be difficult to identify why a smaller or less grand structure might be worth keeping around forever. On 20th Street, there's a small building on the west side of the street between Cuthbert and Arch, standing sentry beside a surface lot [...]
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