Center City Philadelphia Condos
You can never go home again. Especially when your parents have unloaded that
five bedroom ranch house in the suburbs in lieu of an urban penthouse in
Center City Philadelphia. No longer will you have room in the driveway for
your old college car, nor will you ever see dear old dad pushing a
lawnmower. Those days are over. Your parents now live in the city, and you
are not welcome to visit beyond the occasional 48 hour stay. The Indy 500 or
New Kids on the Block posters that once adorned your bedroom walls? Stuffed
into the back of the old station wagon, then wisely driven off the side of a
cliff. A real crash diet where your parents quickly shed 12,000 pounds of
ugly fat.
Your grandparents may have fled the city after WWII, and come hell or high
water, they were not coming back. But your parents are of a different ilk.
They once waved two fingers in the air (pretending to be groovy), sat in the
back of the bus in high-school, and maybe even knew someone who smoked
Mary-Jane at a Janis Joplin concert. They view themselves as being far too
Òwith itÓ to be spending their golden years with a garage full of snow
shovels, garden hoses, and the vast assortment of fifteen year old paint
cans and tools that tend to accumulate in basement-like areas. They have
moved on to the simpler life of being able to walk to the movies, their
favorite restaurant, or to any number of cultural activities.
The fact remains that Center City Philadelphia seems to be the destination
of choice for many empty-nester couples. The areas of downtown Philadelphia
seeing the high-end, empty-nester sales would certainly include Rittenhouse
Square, but more surprising is the recent slew of expensive penthouse units
in the Old City section of downtown Philadelphia. One could easily make the
argument that the average age of those living in Old City has increased in
the past ten years, just as the average age of those buying on
Rittenhouse Square has decreased in the past decade. The art galleries,
access to public transportation, as well as the movie houses in the area are
proving to be a real draw for the new city dwelling set. And if your parents
do make the move into a really cool
Old
City or Rittenhouse Square Penthouse or condo, your old ÒbedroomÓ may
not have survived the move.
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Mark Wade
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