The $800 million Cira Centre South project in University City, held out as a link between Center City and West Philadelphia,
won approvel from a City Council Committee Wednesday and could be cleared for development by the end of the month.
Developer Jerry Sweeney’s “city within a city” was unanimously voted out of the council’s Rules Commttee with the zoning he needs to build offices, a hotel and 75 condos in a series of buildings fronting the Schuylkill and backing up west on Chestnut and Walnut streets.
The project would be a bookend to the original Cira Centre to the north (at the far right of the illustration above). The legislation was to be introduced in full council today and voted on next week.
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