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A tugboat off Penn's Landing in the Delaware River near the Benjamin Franklin Bridge in August 2007 Penn's Landing (foreground), the Delaware River, and the USS New Jersey in Camden, New Jersey (background) in February 2009. Penn's Landing is a waterfront area of Center City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, situated along the Delaware River.
Chinatown residents protesting the planned construction of 76 Place. A study conducted by Dr. Arthur Acolin, the Bob Filley Endowed Chair in the Department of Real Estate at the University of Washington, found that the construction of 76 Place could have cost Pennsylvania and Philadelphia $1 billion in lost tax revenue. [28]
The Jayne Estate Building was the last example of the 19th-century commercial character of North Delaware Avenue (now, Columbus Boulevard), other such structures having been demolished due to the construction of Interstate 95 and other development. The building was delisted by the National Register of Historic Places on January 18, 2011.
Rouse was also involved in the construction of the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts and the Pennsylvania Convention Center. [4] During plans to develop Penn's Landing, Rouse was the target of an extortion attempt by Philadelphia city councilman Leland Beloff and organized crime boss Nicodemo Scarfo.
A four-acre (1.6 ha) "overcap park" will cover approximately 0.1 miles (0.16 km) of the highway. The park is expected to have spray pools, a skating rink, and a cafe. The park is to slope down to the riverfront, expanding the Penn's Landing promenade and connecting it to Old City. Construction on the park began in 2023.
The four-masted barque Moshulu. Moshulu was made famous by the books of Eric Newby.At the age of 18 he was apprenticed aboard the Moshulu, joining the ship in Belfast in 1938 and sailing to Port Lincoln in Australia with a load of ballast stone in 82 days, a good passage for a windjammer.
The feds will kick in $1.6B for the Penn Station Access Project, which will bring a one-seat ride into Manhattan to Westchester's Sound Shore towns Westchester, Bronx commuters could see faster ...
Construction was contracted to the George A. Fuller Company. [7] Completed in 1932 at a cost of $8 million, the PSFS Building was a modern departure from traditional bank architecture and other Philadelphia skyscrapers. Designed in the International style, the building was among the first skyscrapers of its type built in the United States. [5 ...