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Changes to the former cafeteria and Art Deco Auditorium at Bok are on the docket for this month’s EPX zoning meeting It’s hard to believe that it’s only been five-and-a-half years since we first wrote about the initial zoning changes sought
Continue readingNew coffee house aims to keep it simple. When the School District of Philadelphia closed 23 schools at the end of 2013 and auctioned Edward Bok Technical School in 2014, uncertainty surrounded its future. Developers who bought similar grand old
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Since the former Bok Technical School was sold to Lindsey Scannapieco at Scout Ltd. after the great school sale of 2014, the large East Passyunk Crossing structure has seen quite a bit of transformation. To add to the list of
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The Bok School is set to be transformed into an 8-story, 340,000 sq. ft. mixed-use facility with plenty of room for retail and makers spaces thanks to Lindsey Scannapieco and her company, Scout Ltd. One of the first of the
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For just over a month now, the rooftop of the Bok School has been open as a pop-up bar called Le Bok Fin and spot for yoga classes on the weekends. It’s now time to say goodbye to it–at least
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Back when Bok was still a technical high school, a student-run restaurant called Le Bok Fin, a little play on the name of the now-defunct restaurant, Le Bec Fin, was operated at the school. When Lindsey Scannapieco began her plans
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