Logan Square

Logan Square  also known as Logan Circle is a name given to the area in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that lies north Market Street, south of Spring Garden Street, west of Broad Street, and east of the Schuylkill River. This contains the Franklintown neighborhood. It also contains Penn Center and much of Philadelphia's Central Business District. It is named for Logan Square, one of the five "squares", or parks, central to William Penn's design for Philadelphia. The square itself was named after James Logan an eighteenth-century mayor of Philadelphia.

 

Looking to the future, it seems that the vibrancy and change that have been a consistent theme in the Logan Square neighborhood's past will continue. Due to be completed in 2008 is the largest mixed use complex in the city at 1601 Vine Street. The project is planned to include a 1.2 million square feet of residential, hotel and retail space. The Central Library is poised to add a 180,000 square foot glass-covered expansion by Moshe Safdie. After a complex legal battle, the way appears to be paved to bring the Barnes Foundation Museum to its new home at 20th and The Parkway. The Barnes holdings include the second largest collection of Impressionist art in the world. There are also many proposed plans for the area.  Funds are being raised to install a skate park with an award-winning design just west of Eakins Oval. A new office building called Two Pennsylvania Plaza is planned for the remaining parcel on the Comcast Center block. A thirty-year project called River City envisions a series of high-rise office and residential buildings covering the SEPTA viaduct north of JFK Boulevard and then north along the Schuylkill River. As these changes layer themselves over the built legacy of 200 years of history, one thing is likely to remain the same – that the Logan Square neighborhood is an exciting, attractive and welcoming place to live, work and visit.

 

 

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Zip codes  [where: 19103]