Two surface parking lots in Philadelphia’s City Center area will be built into two mixed-use buildings that contain about 340 resident units.
Madison has been awarded work on the project and will provide a total of 13,000 cubic yards of concrete and 160,000 square feet of elevated structural slabs for the two buildings’ foundations, walls, columns, shear walls and post-tensioned concrete slabs.
Madison will also perform the foundation excavation. The new mixed-use buildings, a project dubbed as “Hanover North Broad,” will feature about approximately 340 residential units, 18,000 square feet of retail and parking for 380 cars.
One of the buildings, the larger of the two, will be built on the lot at the southwest corner of Broad and Callowhill. This building will have 229 studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments, 11,024 square feet of retail space, 256 parking spaces (130 for building residents) and 77 bicycle parking spaces.
The smaller building will be located at the southeast corner and will contain 110 studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments, 6,122 square feet of retail space, 114 parking spaces (58 for residents) and 38 bicycle parking spaces.
The Hanover North Broad project will incorporate various sustainable design strategies. The project’s design team is planning to specify regional materials within 500 miles of the site to reduce shipping distance and greenhouse gas emissions.
Mechanical and electrical systems will also incorporate sustainable practices such as using high-efficiency heat pumps and using both LED and compact fluorescent technology. Low VOC materials will also be specified.