Big D Construction

Scope Of Work

In 2014, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints unveiled plans for a 32-story apartment tower at 1601 Vine Street in Philadelphia. The new residential building, named The Alexander, is approximately 397,657 square feet and features 258 market-rate apartments, as well as 13 townhouses. About 12,000 square feet of the development is dedicated to street-level retail. A 105,252 square foot 2-level below-grade parking structure is available for residents of the apartment tower. Residential amenities include a swimming pool, fitness center, club room and business center.

The residential tower is one of three buildings that Big-D Construction | L.F. Driscoll – a joint venture completed along Vine Street in Pennsylvania. Big-D and L.F. Driscoll also constructed a 24,000 square foot church meeting house west of the apartment tower. The 2-story meeting house features a chapel, family history and cultural center and an outdoor courtyard. The meeting house now serves as a Stake Center for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Philadelphia. The new meeting house stands across the street from the new Philadelphia Pennsylvania Temple. Plans for the temple were announced by the church in 2008 and in 2016, work on the Temple was completed.

The design of both the residential building and the meetinghouse consists of brick-and-masonry Georgian and Federal architecture. Red brick was used for the meeting house and buff brick was used for the residential tower. Historic-styled street lights, brick and blue stone were used in the landscaping.

BLT Architects of Philadelphia and Robert A. M. Stern Architects of New York designed the project which was officially completed in 2018.