Philly’s Cheesecake Factory Monstrosity Officially On Its Way


Center City, you’re one step closer to achieving the sterility plaguing most other metropolitan downtowns. This week, the Zoning Board of Adjustment approved a developer’s plans to demolish the wraparound 2-story retail space on Walnut and 15th and replace it with a glass box featuring a Cheesecake Factory. And if we’re lucky, a Uniqlo. It’ll join an Applebee’s and Max Brenner (Bald Man) Chocolates on S. 15th’s 200 block. Making this little stretch of street “KOP on 15th” as City Paper’s Dan Denvir quipped in a tweet. You can get your damn cheesecake in fall 2014, probably. [Philadelphia Real Estate Blog]