Horsham’s Toll Bros. eyes Jewelers Row

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Toll first announced plans in 2016 to demolish several buildings on the 700 block of Sansom Street and replace them with a 16-story condo tower. (Image courtesy wikimedia)

Horsham-based developer Toll Bros. has resumed its efforts to build a residential tower on the Jewelers Row shopping street in Center City, writes Jacob Adelman for philly.com.

Timothy Spreitzer, a spokesman for the Toll’s urban-focused City Living division, said in an email Thursday that the company has “filed a new application for zoning approval based upon community input and will continue to work with the city throughout the approval process.”


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The company first announced its plan in August 2016 to demolish several jewelry store buildings on the 700 block of Sansom Street and replace them with a 16-story condo tower.

Toll later sought zoning for a 29-story building at the site but failed to provide the city’s Department of Licenses and Inspections with requested details about its plan after more than six months, prompting the agency to cease consideration of the proposal in July.

The company said at that time that it would begin work on approvals for a 23-story tower.

Spreitzer offered no details Thursday on the height or other attributes of the building for which it is now seeking approvals.

Toll Brothers was founded in 1967 in Pennsylvania by Robert I. Toll and Bruce E Toll. Bob received a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his B.A. from Cornell, while his brother Bruce had an accounting degree from the University of Miami. Their father, Albert, built homes and the brothers believed that the new home industry had more to offer. Bruce was 24 at the time, according to wikipedia.

In 1982 Toll Brothers expanded to New Jersey. In May 1986 where they developed property in Kennelon, NJ, in cooperation with Michael Felkay. Toll Brothers was incorporated as a Delaware corporation with a public offering raising $40 million. 

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