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The Cira Centre is a 29-story, 437-foot (133 m) office high-rise in the University City neighborhood of West Philadelphia, directly connected to Amtrak's 30th Street Station. Developed by Brandywine Realty Trust and designed by César Pelli , it was built in 2004-05 on a platform over rail tracks.
The former United States Post Office-Main Branch is a historic post office building that is located in the University City neighborhood of Philadelphia. It is situated across from Amtrak's 30th Street Station. It operated as the main postal processing facility for Philadelphia from 1933 until its closure in 2008.
30th Street Station, officially William H. Gray III 30th Street Station, is a major intermodal transit station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.The station opened in 1933 as Pennsylvania Station–30th Street, replacing the 1881 Broad Street station as the Pennsylvania Railroad's main station in the city.
Cira Centre South is a complex of two skyscrapers in the University City district of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, directly across the Schuylkill River from Center City, Philadelphia. The complex is between Walnut Street and Chestnut Street south of 30th Street Station and the Old Post Office Building .
Trolley platform at 30th Street. Drexel Station at 30th Street opened on November 6, 1955 by the Philadelphia Transportation Company (PTC), [3] built as a replacement for the elevated 32nd Street station that had opened in 1907 as part of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company's original Market Street subway–elevated line from 69th Street T.C. to 15th Street, which was elevated west of 23rd ...
The Philadelphia skyline as seen from Boathouse Row in June 2019 (annotated version) The Philadelphia skyline as seen from the Delaware River in February 2023 Philadelphia, the largest city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, is home to more than 300 completed high-rise buildings and skyscrapers up to 330 feet (101 m), and 58 completed skyscrapers of 330 feet (101 m) or taller, of which 34 are ...
The station opened as a stub-end terminal for Pennsylvania Railroad suburban commuter trains serving Center City Philadelphia, intended to replace the above-ground Broad Street Station in this function. PRR inter-city trains, on the other hand, would use 30th Street Station. The station's full name was originally Broad Street Suburban Station.
From there, they use the Center City Commuter Connection of the SEPTA Main Line, making all stops between 30th Street Station and North Broad station. From North Broad, trains use the Norristown Branch , traveling through Philadelphia's East Falls and Manayunk neighborhoods and Conshohocken before reaching Norristown.