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Amtrak postpones search for 30th Street developer amid Amazon HQ pursuit

Amtrak has postponed its search for a developer to remake the area around 30th Street Station amid signals that city officials plan to pitch an adjacent swath of University City to e-commerce giant Amazon as a potential site for its planned second headquarters campus.

Amtrak’s lead contract administrator, Carole Owens, said in an email Monday to potential “request for qualifications” applicants who had registered for an Oct. 11 tour of the station area that the search would be delayed until early 2018.

“While Philadelphia is still determining the best site to present to Amazon, Amtrak feels it best to suspend its solicitation for a master developer until such time a decision on the Amazon headquarters has been made,” Owens said in the email.

The transit agency issued the request in late August to seek a master developer for the first phases of a decadeslong, $6.5 billion redevelopment vision for the area known as the 30th Street Station District Plan.

Adjacent to the District Plan area is the site of the proposed Schuylkill Yards redevelopment project, which city officials are expected to propose to Amazon as a headquarters location.

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