Art by the pound: Thousands of abandoned artworks are being salvaged from the University of the Arts

UArts’ Anderson Hall has been sold to become a mixed-use development. Thunderbird Salvage is trying to rescue everything left behind.

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Peter Crimmins August 1, 2025

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Anderson Hall on South Broad Street was once home to classrooms, art studios, libraries, a printmaking studio and a woodshop.

Now, it’s a ghost town 9 stories tall, filled with whatever students and faculty could not carry out in the last days of the University of the Arts last year. The building was sold earlier this year for $8.5 million to Dwight City Group, LLC, which plans to redevelo

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