Divine Lorraine

"Saffron tells us the stories behind the Barnes Foundation on the Parkway, the Cira Center, the Reading Viaduct, One Meridian Plaza, the failed Penn’s Landing Tram, the Linc, the Convention Center, the abandoned Disneyquest project, the Kimmel Center, the Schuylkill River Trail, the Divine Lorraine Hotel, the invasion of Jewelers’ Row by Toll Brothers, Temple’s proposed football stadium, the Comcast towers, Independence Mall again, et cetera, et cetera."

"A woman in Victorian dress moved through the lavish marble lobby of the refurbished Divine Lorraine two summers ago, and when the concierge greeted her, she supposedly vanished into thin air..."

"Cicala Italian Restaurant opens at the historic Divine Lorraine"

"While the focus of the evening was an Avenue of the Arts that included the Suzanne Roberts Theatre, the block’s many restaurants and the still-epic City Hall a space Goldberg referred to as a porous, government building, one open and dedicated to transparency the way city government should be in a way other government properties are not this reporter was curious about that which surrounded the Avenue of the Arts: the still-developing rest of Broad Street that included developer Eric Blumenfeld’s The Met and the Divine Lorraine to the north, and developer Bart Blatstein’s Giant supermarket corner to the south at Broad and Washington."

"The arrival of Cicala at the Divine Lorraine and Gabi continues to add exciting energy to the neighborhood’s dining scene."

"Our historic preservation dreams came true in 2017 when the downtrodden dame of North Broad, the Divine Lorraine, dusted off decades of neglect and flipped the switch on its iconic neon sign."

Widow of religious leader Father Divine, dies at 92

"There’s a stunner on North Broad across from the Divine Lorraine."