Case Studies

Please Touch Museum
Please Touch Museum

NorthStar intervened in one of the largest and most expensive museum renovations after complications left Philadelphia’s Please Touch Museum – one of the most popular children’s museums in the United States – and its original contractors unable to finish a major relocation and restoration process.

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Delaware Children's Museum
Delaware Children’s Museum

Located in Wilmington, DE, the 37,000 square-foot, $10.5 million museum – Delaware’s first children’s museum – opened in April 2010. Exhibits feature everything from an art and design studio (Studio D), to an EcoHouse (ECOnnect), a sustainable home that utilizes clean energy and green technology.

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Christmas Dreams
Christmas Dreams

Located in Christmas, Florida, Christmas Dreams is the world’s first year-round, indoor resort and theme park designed specifically for children with life-threatening illnesses. The wintry wonderland invites families to leave behind their day-to-day cares as they immerse themselves in the fun and magic of Christmas.

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Big Cat Falls, Philadelphia Zoo
Big Cat Falls, Philadelphia Zoo

Located in the Philadelphia Zoo, the Bank of America “Big Cat Falls” exhibit creates a stunning landscape where guests come face-to-face with endangered animals from around the world. Plants and landscaping for the exhibit create a real-world safari atmosphere enjoyed by over 1.1 million zoo visitors every year.

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Paine's Park
Paine's Park

Located on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in the heart of Philadlephia, Paine's Park is a huge step forward in Philadelphia's move towards creating a more skate-friendly city.

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Paine's Park
The Center for Art in Wood

Located in the heart of Old City, Philadelphia, The Center for Art in Wood, formerly known as The Woodturning Center, has moved into and renovated a fantastic new space on 3rd Street.

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The Philadelphia Holocaust Rememberance Foundation
The Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation

Planned for a prime location on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation has wrangled Moshie Safdie, world reknown architect, to design their future building.

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Children's Science Center
Children's Science Center of Northern Virginia

Currently a "museum without walls" traveling throughout Northern Virginia, the Chilren's Science Center is now focused on creating a museum wiht walls, so to speak, in the Reston, VA (Washington, D.C. - surrounding) area.

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