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Other projects include several new parks and new construction along the Delaware Waterfront, more construction and development at the Navy Yard Business center, expansion of the Schuylkill River Trail, new CHOP towers (at least 4- one under construction), 600+ foot Cira Centre South, Drexel Innovation neighborhood, at least 10 new residential towers in various stages of construction, and several hundred smaller projects from rowhomes to lowrises to midrises going up all across the city. SEPTA has expansion plans but that depends on if they get funding. NJ Transit has expansion plans as well.
Other projects include several new parks and new construction along the Delaware Waterfront, more construction and development at the Navy Yard Business center, expansion of the Schuylkill River Trail, new CHOP towers (at least 4- one under construction), 600+ foot Cira Centre South, Drexel Innovation neighborhood, at least 10 new residential towers in various stages of construction, and several hundred smaller projects from rowhomes to lowrises to midrises going up all across the city. SEPTA has expansion plans but that depends on if they get funding. NJ Transit has expansion plans as well.
There is a lot of new construction in the lowrise/rowhome form. Most of the larger buildings have not begun construction yet. A bunch of new greenspace is planned. Development along the Schuylkill is much more robust currently. I'm more excited for this: http://www.philly.com/philly/busines...t_Station.html
Eco Districts always move slowly. Just be patient, it will happen overtime. I'm sure it will come to fruition around the same time as the SW Eco District in D.C. Sustainability is hard to achieve on currently built infrastructure. You have to retool everything. I have studied the Philly waterfront development project and it reminds me so much of the SW Eco District and National Mall Redevelopment in D.C. If you have sometime, draw some comparisons with the Philly waterfront plan and the SW Eco District/National Mall Redevelopment, they have strong parallels:
Not sure if it's been mentioned here yet but Allentown's CityCenter project (basically in the Philadelphia CSA even if not officially) is a pretty large and transformative project.
More information at: [url=http://www.citycenterlehighvalley.com/]City Center Lehigh Valley[/url]
I'd like to see it come to fruition though because I personally don't associate Philly with water, even though I know there's a park along the river (not sure which one). It seems like a great opportunity to connect the city back to the water, like a lot of cities are trying to emulate after Baltimore did such a great job of doing it in the 90's.
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