Work starts on new UCity hotel

Philadelphia construction manager P. Agnes and contractors have started scratching the ground at 33rd & Chestnut on Drexel's campus for construction of The Study at University City, a 212-key hotel developed by developer Paul McGowan's company, Hospitality 3.

Study at University City builds on McGowan's 2008 hostel, the 124-room Study at Yale, up in New Haven. The Drexel hotel's architect is DIGSAU, Philadelphia. Drexel president John Fry is trying to boost enrollment from the low 20,000s to the mid-30,000s, and build a high-rise neighborhood to lure more corporate employers and retailers to campus. More on Study at University City from Drexel here.