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Projects | The North Delaware Waterfront The City of
Philadelphia initiated a large and comprehensive urban design and
planning effort in 2001 to revitalize 11 miles of largely
obsolescent riverfront land totaling some 3500 acres along the North
Delaware River. The study area runs from north of the Benjamin
Franklin Bridge adjacent to Center City to the County Line.
Currently the site is underutilized, with a mix of utilities, some
viable industries, various small manufacturing and distribution
functions, some pockets of residential use. One third of the land
area is either vacant or marginally used. The predominance of
these uses together with the parallel alignments of Interstate 95
and the N.E. Rail Corridor along the length of the site have
effectively severed this area and the river itself from the city and
its neighborhoods. While the area is seen as a great strategic
resource for Philadelphia, the study raised multiple challenges
including overcoming the formidable barriers, designing a new
infrastructure which permit portions of the lands to be opened up to
new uses, dealing with the vast scale of the area and need for
immediate actions that demonstrate the site’s potential as well a
long term strategy that preserves desirable flexibility. Ken
Greenberg provided urban design and strategic planning advice to a
multi-disciplinary team led by Field Operations of Philadelphia.
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