Philadelphia Retail with PlazaACME

  Welcome back to another thrilling installment of Philadelphia Retail! We're going to be taking yet another trip down to Penn's Landing, looking at one of the less-photographed parts of a church, and- spoiler alert- the Eagles won the Super Bowl, so we're going to another riot celebration. 2100 Market, Rittenhouse Square Over the past decade, developer Brandywine has been buying up properties on this block to build a new skyscraper. They eventually accumulated everything except the firehouse, then hit a snag (well, actually, make that their second snag). Despite being offered a new station as part of the development, they refused to sell. Instead of giving up, they revised their plans. They were able to get the air rights to the firehouse, and now plan on building the base of their skyscraper on the larger western end of the property, and have it cantilever out this way. Two of these buildings, which were originally slated for demolition, saw some new investment. The one

 Hey welcome back! We've got a lot of good stuff coming up in today's post, ranging from supermarkets to drugstores to a much happier downtown riot. A&P/SuperFresh/ACME, Society Hill This opened as an A&P in 1968. The store is designed sorta like a Centennial-style, but modified to better fit the neighborhood. The neighborhood is an interesting mix of colonial-era buildings and midcentury modern houses; it would seem they tried to go the colonial route. Even though the Centennial style is also referred to as the Colonial A&P, their normal design wouldn't really fit in as well as this one. It became a SuperFresh in 1982, which operated up until the chain went bankrupt in 2015. It was among the several stores in the city then sold to ACME.  ACME added some more lighting and painted the black ceiling white, but the store still retains SuperFresh's Funky Fresh look, which it was remodeled to in 2009. Despite being one of the few remaining unremodeled A&P/ACM