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East of Broad gets a boost

PHILADELPHIA -- The area called East of Broad Street in Center City, long in the shadow of its more successful, fast-changing brother -- West of Broad -- is on the verge of coming into its own. A bevy of current and anticipated activity covering a…
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September 26, 2006
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Arts Tower will go condo

PHILADELPHIA -- Crescent Heights has paid $30 million for the Arts Tower, making it the fourth residential project the Miami-based real estate company has taken on in Center City. Crescent Heights plans to convert the Arts Tower, a 16-story apartment building at the corner of…
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July 10, 2006
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Land Owners ‘Flip’ Projects

PHILADELPHIA -- A budding trend in the Center City real estate scene is putting a new twist on the practice of flipping real estate. While the red-hot real estate market enticed investors to flip -- buying condominiums or fixer-uppers in hopes of seeing values quickly…
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June 6, 2006
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$7 million sale of the Lincoln

PHILADELPHIA -- One Presidential Blvd., the 120,000-square-foot building in Bala Cynwyd where Aamco Transmissions Inc. has its headquarters, is in limbo. When Aamco announced March 8 that it would be bought out by Cottman Transmission Systems Inc., it meant that Aamco will no longer need…
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March 27, 2006
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Future of Aamco’s Bala Cynwyd headquarters is up in the air

PHILADELPHIA -- Allan Domb Real Estate bought two buildings along Walnut Street — Philadelphia’s premier High Street retail corridor — from Pearl Properties. The real estate company paid $8.5 million for 1423-1427 Walnut St., a 17,748-square-foot building, and $8 million for 1421 Walnut St., a…
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March 27, 2006
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Retailer Revival

PHILADELPHIA -- Retail rents along Walnut Street have reached a new threshold -- $100 a square foot and above -- in a clear sign retailers are willing to pay up to reside along a key Center City shopping corridor. The high rents underscore the rise…
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October 24, 2005
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Moreland sells 1900 Chestnut to Kenneth Gross for $2.78M

PHILADELPHIA -- Moreland Development sold 1900 Chestnut St., a three-story, 7,100-square-foot building in Center City that it bought 14 months ago with the intention of putting in a Walgreens pharmacy. When neighborhood opposition mounted, Moreland decided drop its plans and sell. "We got an offer…
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October 3, 2005
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$11.5M paid for building that has 15th century Italian flair

PHILADELPHIA -- An architecturally significant structure at 15th and Walnut streets in Philadelphia, the Drexel Building, that was home to one of the city's major financial institutions, was sold for $11.5 million. The deal was between two local private partnerships that didn't divulge their identities.…
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September 5, 2005
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Full of Old City enthusiasm, Yaron has eye on expanding

PHILADELPHIA -- Yaron Properties is expanding its presence in Old City by adding two additional residential projects, switching its successful Merchants' Row apartment complex into condominiums, and breaking out a new concept for the building that housed MTV's "Real World" cast. Yaron has already amassed…
MPN Realty
August 15, 2005