Retail-residential development planned on Market St.

In a sweeping $500 million-plus project aimed at finally upgrading Philadelphia’s worn downtown retail district and spreading Center City’s apartment revival east of Broad Street, a development group says it plans to demolish a modest block of stores on Market Street between 11th and 12th – and eventually level or renovate the rest of the block down to Chestnut Street – in favor of a new retail/residential complex. Read the rest of the article here.