BLT Architects is an integrated architecture and interior design firm with expertise in mixed use, multifamily residential, hospitality, office, higher education and transit-based projects.
The East Market masterplan vision was to create an urban village in the otherwise untapped Market East corridor in the heart of Center City Philadelphia, bounded by Market and Chestnut Streets to the north and south as well as 11th and 12th Streets to the east and west. Ground level retail is energized by extending the retail frontage from Market Street to Chestnut Street through a pedestrian passage called Chestnut Walk.
Conceived to reverse the decline in downtown retail activities, to help Center City capture a major share of anticipated office demand, and to complete the interface of Philadelphia's railroad transit systems,
