Current Projects
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Drexel Project Updates as of September 2025
Daskalakis Athletic Center Varsity Weight Room Upgrades: Design and engineering drawings are being completed, with work expected to begin by the end of the year.
Façade Renovations: Repairs to the Academic Building façade continue to track on schedule, with completion targeted by December 2025. The sidewalk around the building remains protected.
General Services Building Garage: Repair and resurfacing work is nearly completed on all three levels of the garage. All work should be completed by end of September. Work occurring just outside the Wawa entrance is related to the SEPTA station renovations that will come in late 2025, extending into 2026.
Infrastructure Upgrades: The next round of City Tune-ups are in progress for the Daskalakis Athletic Center, URBN Center, Academic Building, Recreation Center, Nesbitt Hall, and 3201Arch Street.
Mandell Theater Lighting and Structural Updates: The design drawings for lighting and structural upgrades in Mandell Theater, located in Creese Student Center, are complete.
McGonigal Academic Resource Center (ARC): We continue to prepare for the Phase 2 ARC renovations to occur next summer, for an expected completion in fall 2026. Design drawings are complete.
Partner Project Updates as of September 2025
3201 Cuthbert Street (Gattuso Development Partners): Gattuso has completed the core and shell for its 509,000 SF life sciences development at 3201 Cuthbert Street. Leasing is in progress. One part of the project, the expanded public passageway between 32nd and 33rd streets (former Cuthbert Street alley), is nearly complete, providing a vital link in the pedestrian pathway from 30th Street Station to uCity Square.
Spark Therapeutics Development at F Lot: Spark Therapeutics is completing its new Gene Therapy Innovation Center being developed on campus through a 99-year ground lease of Drexel’s former F Lot. Spark expects this project to be complete for occupancy with offices and labs in 2026, with full gene therapy manufacturing to come in 2027. The anticipated 500,000-square-foot, multi-story building will serve as a Roche global center of excellence for gene therapy manufacturing and will create opportunities for collaboration with Drexel and Philadelphia’s life sciences community.
Schuylkill Yards (Brandywine Realty Trust): Brandywine is expected to open its food hall on the ground floor of the Bulletin Building at 3025 Market Street by the end of this year. 3151 Market Street, a new stand-alone lab building accommodating approximately 450,000 square feet of lab and lab-support spaces, is substantially complete. A new Fine Wine & Good Spirits retail location is operational on the first floor, and a Starbucks is soon to open there.