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Whole Foods, 300 apts for Best Western's Parkway site

Neal Rodin's proposal has been circulating since July.

Neal Rodin's International Finance Company (IFC), the developer who told my colleague Maria Panaritis he plans to build a $100 million Whole Foods supermarket and apartment complex somewhere near the chain's smaller Art Museum-area location, has been circulating a plan to do just that on the 2.9-acre site occupied by the Best Western motel, between 21st and 22nd at Spring Garden, since July.
A copy of IFC's plan calls for construction on "almost a full square block," including a "luxury residential midrise containing between 250-300 apartments," offering tenants "unobstructed views of Center City Philadelphia, the Ben Franklin Parkway, and Fairmount Park."

A drawing submitted as part of the proposal shows underground parking, a lounge/cafe, and retail spaces at 50,000, 30,000, 11,000, 9,000 and 5,000 square feet.