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Originally Posted by SAN Man
^Nice shot of Philly!
There's a lot of potential in that shot. The riverfront areas look heavy industrial/port, but are there any plans to start developing these areas?
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Yes, that area contained Philadelphia Energy Solutions and was the largest and oldest oil refinery on the east coast until the massive explosion in 2019 that led to it's closure.
Hilco has bought the site and is remaking it into a life sciences campus:
https://www.thebellwetherdistrict.com/
To the east of it is the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The US Navy abandoned the site in 2000. It's been turned into an office park. Currently it is the HQ location for GlaxoSmithKline US, Urban Outfitters, and Rite Aid corporations. A new master plan to turn it into more of a mix-used commercial neighborhood has begun with a 3rd partner being selected two weeks ago.
https://navyyard.org/
This week also saw a large area directly to the east of the stadiums go up for sale with it being marketed as a mix-use entertainment district next to the stadiums and the new casino.
13-acre Stadium District site eyed for 'grand scale development' put up for sale
The rest of that "bottom" portion of south philadelphia will stay industrial. It's Aker's Shipyard that builds big ships still, and the Port of Philadelphia that has been very profitable recently.
Going further up the rivers, there is the Durst redevelopment of Penn's Landing on the Delaware river. That officially broke ground this week too. PennDot is capping 3-acres of I-95 with a new park so you will be able to walk from Center City to the riverfront:
https://www.delawareriverwaterfront....ng-development
The big redevelopment along the Schuylkill river is Brandywine Realty's 30th Street station redevelopment. Amazon's selection committee chose this area as the winning proposal for the HQ2 competition, but the CEO of Amazon Web Services didn't want to move from NYC to Philadelphia and according to the NY Post "trashed" the recommendation (which effectively means the whole 'search for HQ2' was a sham with Bezos just wanting to live in DC and executives splitting time in NYC). The development is moving forward anyway, and the first building is just starting to rise with a second starting soon.
Philadelphia lost race for Amazon HQ2 because new CEO is a Giants fan
https://schuylkillyards.com/developm...huylkill-yards
Some other current developments:
https://www.liveatnorthbank.com/
The Battery Power Plant <-- Definitely one of my favorite redevelopments
https://www.theolinstudio.com/festival-pier
https://www.schuylkillbanks.org/proj...lkill-crossing
So yeah, plenty going on to redevelop quiet a lot of the river fronts. Been ignored for far too long.