LANCE SILVER & STUART HARTING
Lance Silver and Stuart Harting are both licensed real estate brokers since 1967, in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. They began their careers in commercial and residential real estate sales, leasing and brokerage for The Albert M. Greenfield Co. in Philadelphia in 1965, having graduated from Drexel University and Temple University, respectively.
Silver and Harting went on to establish their own firm, Silver & Harting Real Estate, which began and functioned as a land development and brokerage company from 1969 to 1971 before expanding to a fully staffed real estate company concerned with building, development and management. During this period, the partners purchased, planned and re-zoned the 22-acre tract, which became the first Planned Residential Development (PRD) in Bucks County.
Since that time, Silver & Harting has successfully completed in excess of 1500 housing units, suburban and urban residential, and award-winning commercial projects including offices, hotels, and restaurants. There are an additional 520 units planned. The company added historic rehabilitation and restoration to its operations in 1976 and, having completed over one million square feet of space, was ranked by Professional Builder as one of America’s top practitioners of this specialized type of construction and development.
Together as business partners and visionary real estate professionals for nearly 40 years, Silver and Harting have both lectured extensively on real estate development, finance and entrepreneurial decision making at both the undergraduate and graduate programs of Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania.
Silver & Harting’s portfolio of work includes but is not limited to the following notable communities and commercial ventures:
NOTABLE SILVER & HARTING RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITIES
Roxboro, Pa.
Silver & Harting’s first major project and the first property in Pennsylvania to be developed under the Pennsylvania Unit Property Act (commonly known as the Condominium Act). The 212-unit property won one of the nation’s first awards for Ecological Achievement in Land Planning and a citation from the City of Philadelphia as "Philadelphia’s First Planned Residential Development."
Bala Cynwyd, Pa.
A 50-unit, mid-rise, residential condominium structure surrounded by a Lower Merion Township park that was featured in numerous trade journals for its unique design and construction.
Old City, Philadelphia
A 76-unit rehabilitation of a historic sugar refinery next to Christ Church was the first property in America to be developed residentially under the 1976 Tax Reform Act, which served to help revitalize thousands of inner-city buildings throughout the United States in the 1970s and 1980s. It was the first major, mixed-use rehabilitation project in Old City and has been recognized as the catalyst for the rehabilitation and recycling of obsolete buildings into thousands of apartments in Philadelphia and other inner cities.
The Sugar Refinery won the First Historic Preservation Commendation by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and The Certificate of Modernization Excellence by Buildings, and was featured in National Real Estate Investor, Multi-Housing News and other national publications.
Old City, Philadelphia
Philadelphia’s first bed and breakfast hotel across from Independence National Park.
The Vestry Townhouses at Christ Church Park
Old City, Philadelphia
Old City, Philadelphia
Pier 3 & Pier 5 (The Piers at Penn’s Landing)
Delaware Avenue & Market Street on the Waterfront, Philadelphia
A mixed-use community of rental and sale apartments, offices, retail space and marinas, encompassing the rehabilitation of derelict, abandoned and economically obsolete city piers in excess of 500, 000 square feet of space. Its 272 units became Philadelphia’s first waterfront apartment and condominium community.
The following residential communities are also Silver & Harting joint endeavors:
NOTEABLE SILVER & HARTING COMMERCIAL PROJECTS
Offices — 1800 Block Chestnut Street
Hotel — 1000 Block Race Street
Philadelphia’s first Convention Center hotel, the first hotel in Chinatown and the city’s first all-suite hotel.*
Storage Facility — Columbus Boulevard & Callowhill Street
Built, developed and managed by Silver & Harting, this successful land bank is now the site of the future Philadelphia World Trade Center (PWTC).*
Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Building
Fairmont Avenue at Art Museum
Awarded for development to Silver & Harting by the City of Philadelphia.
Restaurant — Delaware Avenue
Philadelphia’s first full-service, waterfront bar, restaurant and nightclub opened in 1991. KatManDu’s development has paved the way for the Pier 25 North Trust holding that is to be turned into a 400,000-square-foot FAR residential development by the end of 2004.
Restaurant — Trenton, NJ
In 1997, Silver & Harting opened a second location in a completely rehabilitated historic Copper Iron Works. The restaurant was built and developed for $3.5 million and is still thriving on the Trenton waterfront. Its advent has helped to bring a renaissance of building projects to Trenton.
Residential; 10th & Race Streets
The conversion of the Clarion Suites Hotel to 96 condominium units; completed in early 2003.
SILVER & HARTING DEVELOPMENTS PENDING OR IN PROGRESS
Greater Philadelphia World Trade Center