Green Treks teams up with JKR for informational video

Tiff, Izzo, and Ferro

This past Monday, Green Treks, the award-winning Philadelphia-based nonprofit communications company teamed up with JKR Partners to film their upcoming educational series about STEM careers.  If you aren't familiar with STEM, it's an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.  The short film is geared toward high school students that might be interested in a job in these fields but may be too scared to ask the questions they really want to know.  Tiffany and I were interviewed by a local high school student, and we quelled her fears about how much Math architects really use. Contrary to what most people think, we really don't use much complex Math.  After filming in the office,we headed to one of our construction sites around the corner where site superintendent Dave Ferro from Clemens gave us some hands on experience.

Southstar Update

Elevator shaft going up

looking East: steel going in

Things are moving along at our Southstar Lofts construction site at the corner of Broad and South Streets in the city.  After a few weeks of digging and hundreds and hundreds of truckloads of dirt, we're finally seeing this baby peeking it's head out of the ground. Steel arrived Friday and a lot of it is already in place.  Block walls at the eastern end of the site have broken the surface, and the elevator shaft is up to the second floor.  Five more floors to go!

Southstar Lofts Groundbreaking

The Southstar Crew:Paul Horning from Clemens;Jerry, Broh, Izzo, Carl Dranoff of Dranoff Properties; Zach, and Josh Weingram also from Dranoff

Ain't nothing more delicious than a Southstar Lofts Tuna Salad.

The Phanatic giving Carl a big wet one.

It's been a while since we had some big news with our Southstar Lofts project, but yesterday was our official groundbreaking held at the Suzanne Roberts Theater.  The Dranoff team held a knockout event, complete with all the important politicians and movers and shakers, even the Phillie Phanatic was there.  Clemens Construction has already been hard at work at the site a few blocks away.  We're almost done digging.  Check back for more updates.