Upper Merion developer asks for variances for Conshohocken office plan

By Carl Rotenberg, Crotenberg@21st-centurymedia.com

The proposal from ONeill Properties Group (OPG) of Upper Merion would include two, six-story office buildings with a separate, six-story parking garage with about 900 parking spaces. A new, 240,000-square-foot building would be connected to an existing, 75,000-square-foot office building.

One of the tenants we are talking to has 1,000 employees, said Brian ONeill, the CEO of OPG. We have a public space that can be used as an amphitheater for this tenant. They want a building that has a large amount of office space on each floor.

This building is all glass that is very light. There is an employee life center on the top floor that has meeting spaces, an employee gym and an outdoor space.

A steel mesh with backlighting will cover the garage buildings exterior. It makes it a sculptural work of art, he said. The building is designed to almost float in the water. This is about bringing as much light into the building as we can.

ONeill did not name the potential corporate tenant for the building and garage.

This is a company highly dependent on technology, he said. It is an international company.

An atrium area between the two office buildings would have a five-story high window wall that could have large glass garage doors that could be opened in good weather.

Board Chairman Richard Barton questioned how the glass connector between the two buildings would be built. Continued...

Engel said the front facade would have architectural breaks every 50 feet to qualify the builder for additional building size.

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Upper Merion developer asks for variances for Conshohocken office plan