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The Italian Market in South Philadelphia is a major Philadelphian landmark. Reading Terminal Market in Center City is one of America's oldest and largest public markets. Shopping options in Center City include Fashion District Philadelphia , The Shops at Liberty Place, Jewelers' Row , South Street , Old City's 3rd Street Corridor, and a wide ...
The Philadelphia Bourse was a commodities exchange founded in 1891 by George E. Bartol, a grain and commodities exporter, who modeled it after the Bourse in Hamburg, Germany. The steel-framed building – one of the first to be constructed – was built from 1893 to 1895, and was designed by G. W. & W. D. Hewitt in the Beaux-Arts style . [ 1 ]
Bassett's Ice Cream at Reading Terminal Market Harry Ochs Original Harry Ochs meat stand. Open-air markets have flourished in Philadelphia since its founding. Growth of the city demanded more markets, and the string of open-air markets extending from the Delaware River ran for six blocks, or one full mile, prompting the main street (then called 'High Street') to be renamed 'Market Street' in ...
In 1889, the Philadelphia and Reading Railway decided to build a train depot, passenger station, and company headquarters on the corner of 12th and Market Streets. The move came eight years after the Pennsylvania Railroad opened its Broad Street Station several blocks away at 15th and Market Streets, and one year after the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad opened its 24th Street Station at 24th and ...
The labor market added 216,000 jobs in December, up from 173,000 in November. Economists had expected 175,000 for the month. The US economy created 2.7 million new jobs in 2023.
Schuylkill Yards is a $3.5 billion, masterplanned development project by Brandywine Realty Trust in West Philadelphia. [1] The project was announced in a press conference in March 2016. [ 2 ] The project is being designed in phases. [ 3 ]
The Reading Company Grain Elevator was built as a grain elevator in 1925 by the Reading Railroad in Center City Philadelphia to replace an elevator that had operated on the same spot since the Civil War. The building was abandoned in the 1950s and refitted in the 1970, with the lower floor made into offices, the grain storage areas essentially ...
Snellenburg's Department Store, 1100 Market St., Philadelphia, PA (1886-87, demolished), in a c. 1915 photograph. The company moved from its South Street location, where it was founded in 1869 by Joseph Snellenburg, to fashionable 12th and Market Streets in 1889. [2] The store was at a location known as the "Girard Estate."