After repairing its sidewalk on 32nd Street between Arch and Winter, SEPTA is upgrading its fence. The new row of posts is being installed next to the sidewalk:
A Mighty Sound
The Drexel campus may be figuratively quiet this week, but it is literally loud in front of the Korman Center, as the foundation supports are being drilled for an addition:
The final product will look like this:
Happy New Year!
16 Hoods
Tennessee Ernie Ford sang “sixteen tons, and what do you get?…” In Drexel’s newly completed laboratories for the Chemistry Department, from 16 chemical fume hoods you get research in synthetic chemistry:
The Study at University City
The Study at University City, a 212-room boutique hotel on the Drexel campus, will be opening in January 2017:
Bob & Marlene Buckley
The Buckley name adorns the newly-renovated entrance to Drexel’s Daskalakis Athletic Center. Bob Buckley, who chaired the Buildings & Properties Committee of the Board of Trustees for twenty years, has given generously to support Athletics over the years, himself a three-sport star as a student-athlete at Drexel:
Vue 32
The joint development between Drexel and the Radnor Property Group, Vue 32, is scheduled to open in August 2017. Steel is up to the 10th floor:
The Rush Building
Drexel installed architectural lighting on the Rush Building in 2010. Rush and its next-door neighbor, the Armory, were emblematic of the streetcar suburb in 1931:
Autumn at Drexel
You may recall that many of the honey locusts were on the verge of succumbing to aphids this spring, including the stand at 32nd & Cherry. They were treated in May. Compare these photographs from November 6th and August 26th. The color in other species may be muted this fall, but the honey locusts have been spectacular:
Epilepsy Awareness
Drexel is observing Epilepsy Awareness Month in November by lighting the grove of river birches in the Cohen Garden section of Perelman Plaza in purple:
Play Ball
Drexel’s athletic fields have not always been at 42nd Street & Powelton Avenue. In 1901, just seven years before the previous World Series victory by the Cubs, the athletic field was across Chestnut Street from the Main Building, where the Chestnut Square residential tower now stands:
Drexel Master Plan 