The Delaware Waterfront Corporation announced Friday that Jefferson Apartment Group and Haverford Properties will team up to develop the Spring Garden Street site along the Central Delaware River waterfront. The announcement also named Cecil Baker + Partners as the architecture firm that will design the multi-use development. Landscape architecture firm Olin will take on the public spaces, which will include access to and along the river and a public art program.
The conceptual site plan should be made available by the end of the year, but here's what we know so far about the development, by the numbers:
550: The approximate number of residential units planned
30,000: Square-footage of retail expected
11: site's total acreage
1: Number of development phases
8: millions of dollars it's expected to cost the developers to make geotechnical improvements to the site to support the development.
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