New Philly High-Rise Links Past and Future of Chinese Immigration
BY ALEXIS STEPHENS | NEXT CITY | NOVEMBER 4, 2014
Last week, the Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation (PCDC) announced plans for the city’s first EB-5 project. One of PCDC’s most ambitious mixed-use development projects so far, the Eastern Tower is set for completion in 2015. The 23-story tower will include apartments, ground-floor retail, a green roof community space, bilingual social and health services, and youth and senior recreation facilities. The federal EB-5 Immigrant Investment Program helps foreign nationals secure a green card if they invest at least $500,000 in an American business that creates at least 10 jobs. (Here’s a good Next City overview of the foreign investment that’s occurred in cities through the EB-5 program.)
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