Two new skyscrapers, a new convention scale hotel and a residential tower – all sprouting from a full-size urban shopping mall will soon give East Market Street a strong competitive edge on the Philadelphia skyline.

The project will level the entire block bounded by Market, Chestnut, 11th and 12th Streets, currently filled with outdated commercial buildings, to replace it with a single podium. The podium will enclose a two or three level shopping mall. The structure would also double as the platform for as many as four towers: two office towers, a 1,200-room hotel and a residential tower.