Posts Tagged: University City

Century Therapeutics nearly tripling planned space at One uCity Square

Century Therapeutics Inc. has expanded the amount of space it will occupy at One uCity Square to 90,000 square feet. The fast-growing company initially signed in 2020 to take a single floor totaling 32,500 square feet in the building in the University City neighborhood of Philadelphia. Century will now occupy space across the top three floors of… Read more »

How real estate deals are fueling the University City Science Center’s shift to ‘amplifying’ its impact

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University City Science Center Board Chairman Mike DiPiano draws a parallel between his organization and Motown. Before the storied music label could start pumping out chart-topping hits, founder Berry Gordy had to build out a physical space to house offices and recording studios. Since its founding in 1963, the Science Center has worked to establish a similar… Read more »

Science Center sells building in uCity Square for $45M

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A partnership involving the University City Science Center has sold 3440 Market St., a 118,000-square-foot building in the University City neighborhood of Philadelphia, for $45 million. Ventas Inc., a Chicago real estate investment trust that is partnering with Wexford Science & Technology and the Science Center on the development of uCity Square, bought 3440 Market…. Read more »

Gwynedd Mercy University sells 150 acres to Boston firm for $31.5M

Gwynedd Mercy University has sold 150 acres for $31.5 million to Beacon Capital Partners, a Boston real estate investment firm that intends to use the property to expand its life sciences footprint in the Philadelphia suburbs.  Beacon already has a presence roughly two miles down the road from the university at Spring House Innovation Park,… Read more »

Center City office building hits the market in life sciences play

Stoltz Management, a Bala Cynwyd real estate company, has put up for sale 2300 Chestnut St., a Center City office building that could sell for an estimated $40 million.  Stoltz bought the 103,905-square-foot office building in 2017 for $28.75 million and invested in upgrades to the lobby and elsewhere. The building is 77% leased to… Read more »