For more than a dozen years, a 1905 warehouse—originally a shoe factory, then home to a textile manufacturer, and, finally, Class C offices—sat vacant on the northern edge of Philadelphia’s downtown Center City neighborhood. One development team waited patiently. More
When Matthew and Michael Pestronk had the vision to rehabilitate a former shoe factory in Philadelphia, they didn’t think it would bring on a showdown between themselves and the city’s unionized workforce. More
