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February 5, 2025

2300 Market for Design Advocacy Group

Principal Jon McCandlish and Associate Ryan Wall presented the 2300 Market project in a DAG Spotlight for Philadelphia’s Design Advocacy Group. The adaptive reuse and rehabilitation of two historic automobile showrooms and warehouses plus new overbuild to create a new life sciences research building for Breakthrough Properties.

Watch the presentation below.

The result highlights a collaborative and rigorous civic engagement process, a model in which the developer, design team, and local stakeholders worked together to transform historic structures into civic and economic assets for the future.

23rd street with view south to The Autocar and Locomobile showroom and warehouses on Market street c. 1913. | Private collection, courtesy Heritage Conservation Collective
Existing conditions before restoration of the Autocar and Locomobile buildings and demolition of the building at right
8-story 225,000 SF 2300 Market completed, looking east