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The UArts Real Estate Sale Puts a Golden Opportunity in a Developer’s Lap

The sale of the late University of the Arts’ real estate portfolio, announced Monday, puts at least one trophy property up for sale on the […]

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With Newest Luxury Project Arthaus, Carl Dranoff Bets on Wellness Real Estate

I can tell something is bothering Carl Dranoff. The developer is alternately tapping and rubbing his left thumb with his right as he sits on […]

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A First Look at the Nearly Finished Arthaus

Of all the places I’ve lived over these 63 years, the one I remember most fondly is an apartment I lived in over a store […]

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Take A Look Inside These Finished Arthaus Condos

Are you planning to buy a condo at Dranoff Properties’ Arthaus development but have no idea what you want it to look like? Carl Dranoff […]

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Dranoff Presents Socially Distanced Concerts from His Unfinished Condo Tower’s Seventh Floor

“Fall is typically an exhilarating time of the year here on the Avenue of the Arts,” says Carl Dranoff, CEO of Dranoff Properties. “New seasons […]

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Carl Dranoff Breaks Ground at Broad and Spruce at Last

Today’s midday ceremonial groundbreaking for the Arthaus, Dranoff Properties’ new 47-story condominium tower at Broad and Spruce streets, was at once a triumph, an anticlimax […]

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Apartment Profile: A First Look at One Ardmore

Here’s an interesting paradox about One Ardmore, Carl Dranoff’s newest apartment building: It has too much parking. And if things go as the people who […]

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On the Market: Aloft Over the Park in Fitler Square for $365K

Speaking of “historic landmarks for living”: One of the first buildings Carl Dranoff’s first development firm produced was Locust Point, one of a slew of […]

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Carl Dranoff Takes the Wraps Off One Riverside

Surrounded by examples from each of the stages of his career as a developer here in Philadelphia, Carl Dranoff officially cut the ribbon on his […]

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A Face-Saving Gesture for the Royal Theater

We now know what the residential project that will rise behind the front wall of the Royal Theater in the 1600 block of South Street […]

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Who’s Building Philly: Carl Dranoff

“Those who succeed over the years can steer their way through choppy waters, and that includes things you can’t control.” Carl Dranoff, the man who […]

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Hard Hat Tour: One Riverside

The last time we caught up with Carl Dranoff, he was celebrating the topping-off of his One Riverside, the east-bank exclamation point that, along with […]

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Philly Developers ‘Terrified,’ ‘Intrigued’ to Have One of Their Own As President

Real estate developers tend to have a funny relationship to politics. On the one hand, they often flood local elections with campaign donations and relentlessly […]

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Dranoff Celebrates Topping-Off of One Riverside

As joggers, dog owners, bicyclists, kids and their parents enjoyed the balmy weather down at street level in Schuylkill River Park yesterday evening (May 25), […]

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Councilman Squilla Introduces New Zoning to Ease Path for Hyde Hotel Project

Though Carl Dranoff’s plans to bring the SLS LUX hotel and residences to the corner of Broad and Spruce have been delayed by the state […]