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Originally Posted by iheartphilly
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This was the best possible outcome. Let's breath a sigh of relief.
Hopefully the south end of the refinery essentially becomes an extension of the Navy Yard and the north end an extension of the Pennovation Center. And let's hope they build that proposed "River Road".
This amount of acreage could support a huge amount of light industrial manufacturing and warehousing and puts thousands of middle class Philadelphians to work. I'm very excited about this.
Hopefully they clean it up and make it look more like the Navy Yard so that the entrance to the city from the south looks much better in the future. I've always felt, even though that refinery supported thousands of good paying jobs for the region, that it's very existence stained the entire perception of Philadelphia from the outside.
It is literally the first thing you see when landing at the airport and when entering Center City from the South.