September 2012

Plaza renovation at Commerce Square is complete

Commerce Square, the complex of two gray-granite 41-storey buildings at 20th and Market Streets, has just finished renovating their plaza for the first time since the complex was built in the early 1990s.  The renovation, designed by Commarts/Stantec, has much more outdoor seating, new benches, umbrellas, and landscaping and the fountain was rebuilt. The most exciting feature, however, is a 22′ by 20′ “media wall”, or jumbotron TV screen, along one of the walls of the plaza.  In front, on the Market Street sidewalk, there are two illuminated 42′ pylons to create an entrance from Market Street.  The management of the complex is adding a new restaurant as well.  All this makes the plaza at Commerce Square feel similar to The Piazza, in Northern Liberties, or the plaza and lobby of the Comcast Center.  And, this will be right across the street from the newly renovated 2040 Market Street, which will have retail and 275 new apartments.  This is all very good news for the neighborhood around Riverwest.

Entrance to Commerce Square plaza

The new Commerce Square plaza and jumbotron

New taco place opens up on Chestnut Street

Pure Tacos, a restaurant serving quality Mexican food made from sustainably grown ingredients, just opened a location at 1935 Chestnut Street a couple of months ago.  Pure Tacos started on the Ocean City boardwalk.  They specialize in healthy, but fast, food made from sustainable ingredients.  They primarily serve tacos and nachos, as well as salads, but with different and new ingredient combinations.  Their prices are in line with similar locations in Center City with the same kind of quality food.  Their new location seats about 25 customers.  You can find out more about Pure Tacos at their website www.puretacos.com.

Front of Pure Tacos @ 1935 Chestnut Street

LISTINGS:

Riverwest #1123, studio, all utilities included, currently rented for $975 per month, but could be owner-occupied  $139,000

August 2012

Intermix fashion boutique soon to open on Rittenhouse Row

Intermix, fashion’s leading multi-brand retailer, is about to open its newest location right here at 1718 Walnut Street.  The new store will be a 2,500-square-foot space and will open this autumn.  Intermix first opened in Manhattan in 1993 and presently has 30 boutiques scattered across the U.S. and Canada.  Regarded for its philosophy of mixing fashionable pieces in unexpected ways, Intermix offers the most sought-after styles from the industry’s best brands. The Intermix Philadelphia store on Rittenhouse Row will offer on-trend must-haves from designers such as rag & bone, Helmut Lang, ALC, Diane von Furstenberg, J Brand, Equipment, Herve Leger, Alexis Bittar, Sergio Rossi and Mulberry.

The selection of both up-and-coming and established designer apparel, as well as a wide assortment of jewelry and accessories at various price points, are specifically tailored to the personal sense of style of the “Philly customer.”

Site of the new Intermix store @ 1718 Walnut Street

New apartment building, “The Sansom”, to begin construction soon on the 1600 block of Sansom Street

A new nine storey apartment building is about to be built on the 1600 block of Sansom Street, between the Hotel Palomar and the Oakwood Apartments.  The Sansom, built by Pearl Properties and designed by DAS Architects, will contain 104 newly constructed apartments and stores on the ground floor.  The apartments include one bedrooms, one bedrooms with dens, two bedrooms, and studios.  The apartments feature finishes such as granite countertops, stainless steel kitchen appliances, hardwood floors and in-unit washer/dryers.  Building amenities include a doorman, residents’ lounge, fitness center, and bike parking.  One bedroom units will start at $1,895.  The new building will create a continuous shopping district along Sansom Street, from 15th Street to 18th Street.

Rendering of The Sansom

Construction site of The Sansom

View of Liberty Place and Comcast Center from The Sansom construction site

LISTINGS:

Riverwest #1123, studio, all utilities included, currently rented for $975 per month, but could be owner-occupied  $139,000

June/July 2012

Barnes Foundation opens, with much fanfare, on the Parkway

The Barnes Foundation has officially opened up on the Ben Franklin Parkway.  The opening was on May 19, with a big celebrity gala the night before.  This is the culmination of a decade of efforts to relocate the collection of more than 9,000 works of art from the original location in Merion.

The Barnes collection was compiled by Dr. Albert Barnes over many decades.  It has artwork from all over the world, but it is most known for its collection of French Impressionist artwork, the largest collection of such artwork in the United States.  This collection is valued at between $6 billion and $25 billion.  The collection was housed by Dr. Barnes in his home in the suburb of Merion.  He arranged the paintings and sculptures, that he chose to exhibit, on the walls of many of the rooms.  The Foundation board decided to move to a new facility in Philadelphia about a decade ago in hopes of attracting more visitors to see the collection.  After years of litigation, the museum finally started building that new facility a couple of years ago and has finally completed the move of the vast amount of artwork.

The new building design, by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, was unveiled in October of 2009.  It is designed to resemble Dr. Barnes’s home in shape and massing, but has a contemporary design and features that Dr. Barnes’s home could never have.  It is about 93,000 square feet (12,000 square feet will be gallery space), and two stories, with an entrance facing 21st Street and the Rodin Museum across the street.  The building is covered in Ramon limestone, with traditional looking wooden windows to mimic the light patterns of the original museum.  It is designed to be a “gallery in a garden” and to be surrounded by several courtyards and the existing London plane trees that run along the Parkway.  There is a large courtyard on the corner of 20th Street and the Parkway, with a modern fountain, and an outdoor cafe on the north side of the building surrounded by a garden.  These gardens resemble the gardens and arboretum that Dr. Barnes had around his home.  The new gardens and courtyards are intended to encourage contemplation and provide some tranquility from busy city streets.  There will, also, be parking on the north side (which I hope will be replaced with an underground garage and plaza when they have the money) and a bus loop on 20th Street.

The most striking feature of the new museum’s design is the glass pavilion on top that will cantilever over the 21st Street entrance.  It will allow light into the front lobby, or court, and it will light up at night, creating a unique visual presence on the Parkway.  The new museum will have features that the original didn’t, or couldn’t, have.  It will have a 150 seat auditorium, classrooms, conservation and research rooms, and a 5,000 square foot special exhibitions gallery.

This is a huge development for the Ben Franklin Parkway and surrounding neighborhoods.  With this great new museum, the Ben Franklin Parkway has arguably the largest concentration of fine art on display anywhere in the world!  This will make the Parkway a must see for any serious art lover and add to the desirability of the neighborhoods around the Parkway, including CityView.

Barnes Foundation

The Barnes from 20th Street

Inside the Barnes

 

Renovations to Walnut Street Bridge progressing

Walnut Street Bridge is being renovated to accommodate more pedestrians and bicycle traffic.  The existing sidewalks are being widened to 12 feet, from the current 8 feet, to give more room for pedestrians.  The auto traffic lanes will be reduced from four to three, and a new bike lane created.  The new sidewalks will have bricks along the side.  The large signs will be replaced with smaller ones and new pedestrian lighting will be added.  The south sidewalk is being replaced now and the north side will be done when the south sidewalk is complete.  The work is funded by the state and the federal economic stimulus and must be completed by the end of the year to receive the full amount of funds.

Rendering of the improved sidewalks of the Walnut Street Bridge

Work being done on the Walnut Street Bridge

LISTINGS:

Riverwest #1123, studio, all utilities included, currently rented for $975 per month, but could be owner-occupied  $139,000

April/May 2012

New restaurant at 20th & Sansom

A new restaurant is opening up at 20th & Sansom Streets.  This new place is called the Shake Shack, and is a chain of upscale burger and milkshake shops based in New York City.  The spot was the home of several businesses that have relocated.  Shake Shack specializes in gourmet burgers, hot dogs, and milkshakes with outdoor seating in busy urban neighborhoods.  They, also, like to use locally and sustainably grown ingredients.  The restaurant should be open by summer.  You can see more about Shake Shack on their website, here.  While the site is under construction, the builders have put an interesting “green” wall around the site, with plantings hanging off the plywood walls.  Check out the cool picture below.

Construction of Shake Shack, with “green” walls

Chestnut Park, @ 17th & Chestnut Streets, is renovated and renamed for its designer, John F. Collins

Chestnut Park, a pocket park at 17th and Chestnut Streets, has recently been renamed for its designer, famed landscape architect John F. Collins.  Collins who was a native of Conshohocken and studied landscape architecture at Penn State and Harvard, helped found the landscape architecture firm, The Delta Group.  He designed several Center City parks, including Chestnut Park in 1978.  Chestnut Park was once a parking lot, that was bought by The William Penn Foundation in 1978, and officially opened in 1979.  The Delta Group won a design competition with their design, with the theme of celebrating indigenous plants and the Native-American cultures of the Delaware Valley.  The three totems represent the three tribes of the Lenni Lenape people.  There are native plants and gneiss mica schist, often called Wissahickon schist, because it is common in the Wissahickon Valley and was commonly used in the construction of northwest Philadelphia homes.  There is, also, a waterfall, benches, and a wrought iron gate depicting local wildlife designed by artist Christopher Ray.  The park was renovated last year by the Center City District and renamed for Mr. Collins, shortly after his death.  The Center City District maintains the park and has a small vending kiosk there, as well as concerts, during the warm weather.

Front gate of John F. Collins Park

Interior of John F. Collins Park

LISTINGS:

Riverwest #1123, studio, all utilities included, currently rented for $975 per month, but could be owner-occupied  $139,000

Riverwest #1414, studio, all utilities included, furniture included  $150,000

March 2012

New restaurant at 20th & Chestnut Streets

Another new restaurant is about to open up along Chestnut Street, one of many new restaurants in the neighborhood.  The new restaurant, at 1930 Chestnut Street where Hollywood Video used to be, is called Jane G’s.  It will serve Asian cuisine for lunch and dinner.  There will be outdoor seating and a raw bar inside.  Opening day will be very soon; I saw workers finishing up the other day.  A large new restaurant, with outdoor seating, at this location will add a lot more life to this stretch of Chestnut Street and this end of the Rittenhouse neighborhood.  You can find out more about the restaurant at janegsrestaurant.com.

Jane G's restaurant, under construction, @ 20th & Chestnut

Commerce Square plaza, @ 20th & Market Streets, is being renovated into a neighborhood gathering place

Commerce Square, the complex of two gray-granite 41-storey buildings at 20th and Market Streets, is being renovated for the first time since the complex was built in the early 1990s.  The renovation, designed by Commarts/Stantec, includes an exciting renovation of the public plaza between the two towers.  The newly revamped plaza will have more outdoor seating, new benches, umbrellas, and landscaping and the fountain will be rebuilt. The most exciting feature, however, will be a 22′ by 20′ “media wall”, or jumbotron TV screen, along one of the walls of the plaza.  In front, on the Market Street sidewalk, there will be two illuminated 42′ pylons to create an entrance from Market Street.  The management of the complex plans to add a new restaurant as well.  All this could make the plaza at Commerce Square feel similar to The Piazza, in Northern Liberties, or the plaza and lobby of the Comcast Center.  And, this will be right across the street from the newly renovated 2040 Market Street, which will have retail and 275 new apartments.  This is all very good news for the neighborhood around Riverwest.

Commerce Square plaza under construction

Rendering of the new Commerce Square plaza

Another rendering of the new plaza at Commerce Square

LISTINGS:

Riverwest #1123, studio, all utilities included, currently rented for $975 per month, but could be owner-occupied  $139,000

Riverwest #1414, studio, all utilities included, furniture included  $150,000

January/February 2012

New 12-storey apartment building replaces derelict building on 2000 block  of Chestnut Street

Another apartment building is soon to be built in the blocks surrounding the Riverwest Condos and The Condo Shop office there.  This time, the new building is replacing the most blighted property on Chestnut Street, west of Broad, at 2017-23 Chestnut.  That boarded up building was an extension of the YWCA building next door, which is now the Freire Charter School.  The abandoned building was owned by the Redevelopment Authority, which chose Aquinas Realty to develop it.  Aquinas’s plan is to build a 12-storey luxury apartment building with a ground floor restaurant and space for the Freire Charter School in the basement of the new building.  Their building is being considered by the Zoning Board and Philadelphia City Planning Commission, so construction won’t begin until at least the middle of the year.  The developers are still deciding the materials for the facade and the design of the windows, but they likely will be putting bay windows and louvres.

This is the third luxury apartment building being built in this immediate area.  There is, also, a 13-storey apartment building being built at 21st & Market Streets and a 34-storey apartment building at 2116 Chestnut Street.  The total of these buildings will bring hundreds of new apartments and hundreds of new residents to the neighborhood, while redeveloping blighted properties and bringing new retail to the area.

Rendering of new apartment building @ 2017 Chestnut

New sushi restaurant coming to the neighborhood, around the corner from Riverwest Condos

A brand new sushi restaurant is soon to open at the corner of 22nd & Walnut Streets, around the corner from the Riverwest Condos.  It will be replacing the Millenium Cleaners and Jack’s Camera Shop, that both recently went out of business.  This sushi bar joins several others in the neighborhood, such as Tampopo, Mizu, Fuji Mountain, Vic Sushi Bar, and Yamaki Sushi; but this will be west of those restaurants and will attract people from near the Schuylkill waterfront and Fitler Square.  The building it will be in is the historic Walnut Plaza, once called The Madison, that was built in 1916.  No word on when the new restaurant will open or the name, but it likely will be a popular addition to the neighborhood and will help improve a currently drab corner.

Site of new sushi restaurant @ 22nd & Walnut

LISTINGS:

Riverwest #1123, studio, all utilities included, currently rented for $975 per month, but could be owner-occupied  $139,000

Riverwest #1414, studio, all utilities included, furniture included  $150,000

Riverwest #1212, one-bedroom, all utilities included, newly renovated, currently rented, but could be owner occupied   $189,900

November/December 2011

Einstein’s brain samples to be displayed at Mutter Museum

Samples of Albert Einstein’s brain, saved and preserved after his death in 1955, are about to be displayed publicly for the first time at our very own Mutter Museum on 22nd Street, around the corner from the Riverwest Condos and our Condo Shop office at 21st and Chestnut Streets.  The samples are thin slices of the famed physicist’s brain that have been stored and preserved on glass slides.  They are among several batches of samples that have been studied and researched for decades at various hospitals.  The Mutter exhibit was recently announced on local television and is already on display.

The slides show the contours of Einstein’s brain, often dyed to display the chemicals that constitute the human brain.  The samples show that Einstein’s brain did not age the way most people’s brains do, perhaps a sign of his intellectual strength and genius.  Scientists have been studying the samples of Einstein’s brain to learn more about the human brain and find out what made him such a genius.  Through this research, neurologists would like to discover ways to improve cognitive function and, perhaps, make future generations of Einsteins.

The Mutter Museum is a unique museum dedicated to medical specimens, which have been preserved and displayed, including a tumor removed from President Grover Cleveland and samples of tissue from Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth.  Obviously, brain samples of, possibly, history’s most famous genius are unique specimens that our neighborhood is honored to be hosting.

I have a link to an article in the Inquirer, which has pictures and a video, about the exhibit, here.  And you can go to the Mutter website, here.

Mutter Museum, @ 22nd and Chestnut Streets

Mutter Museum sign

Comcast Holiday Spectacular is back for 2011

A new annual holiday tradition, the Comcast Holiday Spectacular, is back for the 2011 holiday season.  The show is in the lobby of the Comcast Center and is shown on the world’s largest hi-def video screen.  It lasts about 20 minutes and includes various holiday themed dancing and music montages, as well as, a dizzying digital-animated sleigh ride and flyover of the Philadelphia skyline.  It is shown at the top of the hour, except 5Pm on weekdays, during the day and evening.  The Holiday Spectacular was started a few years ago and has quickly become a holiday tradition similar to the Wanamaker light show, at what is currently Macy’s, as well as, a new holiday tourist attraction.  This year’s show will have some changes, most notably a new scene from Pennsylvania Ballet’s The Nutcracker, which is also a holiday tradition performed at the Academy of Music.  I have a link to Comcast’s website, with info about the show, here.

Scenes from The Nutcracker, shown in this year's Comcast Holiday Spectacular

 

Another apartment building being built across the street from Riverwest

Market Street West is the heart of the city’s corporate community, with the largest and tallest office buildings either on, or adjacent to, the thoroughfare.  The stretch of Market, from City Hall to 22nd Street, is like a canyon flanked by walls of glass, granite and concrete.  In recent years, the blocks between 20th & 23rd Streets, and adjacent blocks, have seen new residential development.  Now, developer Ron Caplan, and his company PMC Properties, are developing the property at 2040 Market Street into high-end rental apartments.

2040 Market was the former mid-Atlantic headquarters for AAA.  When they moved to Wilmington, Delaware, the building was left vacant and has been for several years.  It was owned briefly by the megalomaniacally-named company World Acquisition Partners, who proposed adding supporting columns to convert the building into a 53-storey condo tower.  World Acquisition Partners proposed several large developments that didn’t get close to being built, so 2040 Market was eventually sold to PMC and Caplan.  The building, built in the late 1970s, has an unusual design for Market Street.  It is only five storeys and the second floor cantilevers over a garden surrounded by a wall along the sidewalk, much like a suburban office building.  The first floor has large windows and had the AAA service center inside.  It was designed to have additional floors built on top of it, because it was always intended to be a bigger building.

So, PMC plans to build eight additional storeys on top of the original building to, of course, make it a 13-storey building.  But, PMC won’t stop there.  They plan to build two additional, 13-storey wings onto the back of the building, along Ludlow Street.  The overall plan, designed by Steven Varenhorst Architects (the same firm that designed the apartment building about to be built on the southwest corner of 19th & Arch Streets),  will have 275 high-end rental apartments, 32 of which will be two bedroom apartments, at the request of the Center City Residents Association, and it will increase the size of the building from 120,000 square feet to 300,000 square feet.  The facade of the original building will be clad with panels that will create bunches of windows, rather than the seamless ribbon of windows it currently has.  All parking will be underground, some of it in the existing building, and some of it under the new additions.  There will be two entrances to the underground parking, one on Ludlow and one, that apparently couldn’t be avoided, on Market.  At the Planning Commission meeting, the only concern about the whole project was left turns on Market Street, into the parking garage.  I’m sure they’ll figure something out. And, the loading dock for the retail will be on Ludlow.

The retail in the building could be very significant.  The wall and garden, along the sidewalk, will be removed.  The entrance to the retail will be on the corners, and the wall will be replaced with a series of bay windows and alcoves on 21st & Market Streets.  There will be at least one large restaurant, so the alcoves will be perfect for outdoor seating, a first on the sidewalk of Market Street West.  The developers say they definitely want to have that kind of outdoor seating.  The retail space could, also, be perfect for some kind of use that requires a lot of space, such as a furniture store or car showroom.  There will, also, be a small courtyard on Ludlow Street, again at the request of the Center City Residents Association.

The developers have begun construction.  This building, and others such as the 34-storey apartment tower across from Riverwest and a 14-storey apartment tower about to be built at 19th & Arch, will likely bring new retail to the largely empty retail spaces on Market from 20th to 23rd Streets and encourage major new development on these blocks of Market.  Adding two new high-end apartment buildings, with fancy new retail to the immediate neighborhood, will likely add to property values and home prices in coming years, including at Riverwest.  If you need help in buying or selling a condo or townhouse in Rittenhouse, you can send me an email at gabriel@thecondoshops.com and sign onto my Facebook realtor page at Gabriel G. Philly Realtor.  And you can check out The Condo Shop website at www.thecondoshops.com.  I have pictures, below, of the 2040 Market site and the model of the renovation and expansion of it, from Steven Varenhorst Architects, that was shown at the Planning Commission meeting recently.  And you can check out this video, by PlanPhilly, of the presentation to the Planning Commission a few months ago.

Model of the expanded 2040 Market apartment building, from the front

2040 Market from the front

Cantilever over the front retail space; restaurant with outdoor seating will be here

Looking down 21st Street, with 2040 Market on left and Riverwest on right

October 2011

Welcome to Rittenhousenews, a new newsletter for the Rittenhouse (and Logan Circle) neighborhoods, brought to you by The Condo Shop.  At The Condo Shop, we help people buy and sell houses and condos for home and investment, and we have an office at the Riverwest Condos at 21st and Chestnut Streets in Rittenhouse Square, Center City, Philadelphia.  We would like to share with you great happenings, neighborhood improvements and unique features of the Rittenhouse and Logan Circle neighborhoods, near our Riverwest office.

Philadelphia Film Festival Main Box Office at The Condo Shop Riverwest office

The 20th anniversary Philadelphia Film Festival has just begun on October 20 and will last until November 3, 2011.  The Condo Shop is a sponsor and we are happy to have the main box office for the festival at our Riverwest office at 21st and Chestnut.  With over 120 films, the Philadelphia Film Festival allows viewers to see independent and artistic films that are not found at your typical movie multiplex.  The films will include several special gala screenings, which include discussions with the film makers and/or actors, including Roland Emmerich’s Anonymous, a film about controversy surrounding William Shakespeare, Simon Curtis’s My Week with Marilyn, about the relationship between Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier, and Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist, a black-and-white film that was all the rage at the Cannes Film Festival.  The festival opened with the screening of Drake Doremus’s Like Crazy, a film about an international love affair starring Felicity Jones and will close on October 29, with the screening of the tragicomedy, The Descendants, starring George Clooney (although films can be seen through November 3).

The main box office, at Riverwest Condos, will be open through the end of the festival on Monday thru Friday, from 12PM to 8PM, and Saturdays, from 12PM to 5PM.  You can get your tickets, and a badge, from Sara Jewett, ticketing manager.  Tickets are mostly $12, but are $6 for weekday matinees and $15 for gala premiers.  For more info, you check out the film festival’s website, www.filmadelphia.org.

New apartment tower, across from Riverwest, will add to the neighborhood

Working at The Condo Shop office at 21st & Chestnut Streets, I am often looking out at the Sidney Hillman Medical Center, a senior medical center for former apparel manufacturing workers, on the corner of Chestnut and Van Pelt Streets.  The building was built in the 1950’s by one of the garment worker unions that eventually became part of UNITE.  The exterior has an unusual granite facade and a diagonal shape.  Now, Chicago developer John Buck Company and UNITE have teamed up to demolish this building, across from my office at the Riverwest Condos in the 2100 block of Chestnut, and replace it with a gleaming, 34-storey, glass apartment tower.  The new tower would have a new space for the Hillman Center and retail spaces along Chestnut Street.

The construction of this tower will start very soon, as it has received approval from the city, and the developers just completed the purchase of the Hillman Center last week.  As many may know, it would be the first residential highrise to start construction in Center City in more than two years, since the super upscale 1706 Rittenhouse broke ground at 17th & Rittenhouse Square Streets.  This new building would be among the first of several proposed buildings which will be built in the coming years as the nation recovers from the recession.  This building will be rentals, which are popular now in Center City, due to the difficulty of obtaining financing for condominiums and the fact that the vacancy rate for rentals in Center City is less than 2%.  The vacancy rate for rentals went as high as 4.5% in 2009, which is almost unheard of in Center City.  But as the economy recovers, rental vacancy in Center City clearly is getting back to normal.

The new tower, designed by Chicago firm Hartshorne & Plunkard Architects, will have 307 upscale apartments in 34 storeys.  It will have retail, with likely a restaurant or two on Chestnut, that will enliven that end of the 2100 block.  The total cost is about $100 million to build (including $10 million from the state – another sign it is likely to be built soon), and rents will likely be in the thousands per month, as is normal in Rittenhouse Square for new luxury rentals (at Riverwest, condos rent for $1050 per month for studios to $2000 per month for two-bedrooms).  It has been modified a bit from its original design.  There was concern among the Unitarian Church across the street about losing sunlight through their stained glass windows, so the developers set the building back above the second floor to preserve sunlight.  They, also, are providing a courtyard for use by the residents of the small historic buildings next door on 22nd Street.

The new tower will be a shiny new addition to the west Rittenhouse neighborhood and will be the start of the next round of highrise construction here, and will add more luxury housing and new retail to this end of the Rittenhouse neighborhood, which will undoubtedly increase property values in the western end of the Rittenhouse neighborhood.  If you are interested in purchasing or selling a home or investment property in Rittenhouse, then feel free to contact me at gabriel@thecondoshops.com or check out our website, www.thecondoshops.com, or our Condo Shop facebook page here.

Current Sidney Hillman Center

Rendering of the new tower @ 2116 Chestnut Street, across from the Riverwest Condos

Our Condo Shop office, across the street, @ the Riverwest Condos...feel free to stop by

Hello world!

This is the new newsletter, called Rittenhousenews, about the Rittenhouse Square (and Logan Circle) neighborhoods surrounding The Condo Shop office at Riverwest Condos, @ 21st & Chestnut Streets in Rittenhouse Square, Center City, Philadelphia.  In this newsletter, we will talk about new events, developments, and businesses in the Rittenhouse and Logan Circle communities where Condo Shop has a presence.  I hope you find it interesting and if you are looking to buy or sell a home or investment property (house or condo) in Philadelphia, please check out our website at www.thecondoshops.com or our facebook page, or contact me , Gabriel Gottlieb at gabriel@thecondoshops.com or check out my facebook realtor page, Gabriel G. Philly Realtor.