Plans have shifted for the Broad Street Diner site in South Philadelphia. Owner Michael Petrogiannis now intends to develop a 110-key Hyatt Studios hotel at 1135-43 S. Broad St., replacing his previous plan for a five-story, 31-unit residential building with restaurant space. The hotel will rise five or six stories and include surface parking. The… Read more »
Rivers Casino in Fishtown plans to open a 62-suite boutique luxury hotel with an indoor basketball court this year inside The Battery, the $154 million redevelopment of a former PECO power plant along the Delaware River. Riversuites could be accepting reservations as early as the fall, Rivers Casino said Tuesday, and is expected to open by the… Read more »
The city is again seeking developers to revitalize the former Family Court building on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway after talks with the Peebles Corp. about turning the property into an upscale hotel ended last year. The Philadelphia Industrial Development Corp. on Friday issued a request for qualifications soliciting interest in redeveloping the nearly 250,000-square-foot building… Read more »
