Get an update on how the I-95 CAP, Chinatown Stitch, PATCO Franklin Square Station, Bellwether District and 30th Street Station upgrade projects are moving…
The Building Philadelphia series focuses on major construction projects happening across the city that will improve how people move and connect. Some of the projects revamp train travel including PATCO reopening the Franklin Square Station and Amtrak modernizing William H.
Gray III 30th Street Station. Other project takes scars of the past to a new future like the I-95 CAP project, Chinatown Stitch and Bellwether District. From big dreams to big digs already underway, several construction projects in Philadelphia are looking to transform how we travel and connect for decades to come. Throughout the workweek of Feb. 5, 2024, the reporters of NBC10 News at 6 a.m. will be examining the biggest construction projects transforming the City of Brotherly Love.The Chinatown Stitch "The Chinatown Stitch: Reconnecting Philadelphia to Vine Street is a study to cap the Vine Street Expressway between Broad Street and 8th Street to reconnect Chinatown and Chinatown North," Two-Block Concept prevailed that adds caps for the full block between 10th and 11th Streets, and 12th and 13th Streets. There is an open gap between 11th and 12th Streets, which allows for required ventilation for the expressway.Artist's rendering shows what a park connecting Chinatown might look like. Don't expect to see heavy construction equipment out there just yet. The preliminary design and engineering stages are expected to continue through 2025, according to the City."If funding is received, the City anticipates that construction could start as early as 2027."Driving around Franklin Square on the edge of Philly's Old City neighborhood you may have noticed lots of construction. It's actually all part of reconnectingMillions in Federal Grants Will Help Modernize, Reopen PATCO’s Long Closed Franklin Square Station There is actually a long-shuttered train station underground near the foot of the Ben Franklin Bridge. You may have noticed it while riding PATCO into or out of Philadelphia. "Since its grand opening in 1936, the station, located near Seventh and Race Streets, has sporadically closed and reopened with the last period of passenger service between 1976 and 1979,"The new station at 7th and Race streets with ADA-compliant elevator, escalator and ramps and even a green roof -- andThe Bellwether District to rise from longtime South Philly refinery For years, the aging Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery site in South Philadelphia stood as a reminder of the city's past.Now the 1,300-acre site situated along the Schuylkill River is promising a"state-of-the-art campus" that will be"home for e-commerce, logistics, life science and innovation leaders."The first phase of the industrial campus at the site is set to open in the first quarter of 2025 and construction on the initial phase of the innovation campus is expected to get underway this year,Changes have been underway at the William H. Gray III 30th Street Station since 2021. Millions of dollars were promised to sprucing up the rail transit hub over 30 years Now the project is in its second phase with the South Concourse and Market Street Plaza closed to the public in January, "The project will enhance the station’s functionality and improve the customer experience for Amtrak, SEPTA and NJ TRANSIT customers," Amtrak says."The project will also improve the Market Street Plaza, expand retail offerings, and provide other benefits to the local community."The project will also enhance the connection to Center City on the other side of the Schuylkill River and be a"gateway to West Philly and University City," Amtrak says. Among the planned benefits stemming from the revamped station:"Makes the station a destination in its own right,""improves pedestrian circulation and wayfinding" and"modernizes station operations."I-95 CAP will cover highway, connect Penn's Landing to Old City NBC10's Matt DeLucia talks to the minds behind the yearslong project to put a CAP over I-95 in Philadelphia. Just check out the amenities it will feature from a garden to an amphitheater to an ice skating rink. The $329-million plan is grand -- to build green space above a section of Interstate 95 cutting right through the center of Philadelphia. It's called the I-95 CAP and it's well underway with demolitions of existing structures leading to some"The new covering over I-95 will be enlarged to span between Chestnut and Walnut streets and will extend from Front Street east to cover Columbus Boulevard," PennDOT said."The new covered area also will include construction of a new "The centerpiece of the CAP project will be an amenity-rich, pedestrian-friendly Park at Penn’s Landing that will be constructed on the expanded covered area over I-95 and Columbus Boulevard," The new park will be an 11.5-acre civic space spanning I-95 and Columbus Boulevard between Chestnut and Walnut Streets, extending from Front Street to the Delaware River, according to PennDOT. It will feature an amphitheater, playground, restaurant, garden and even ice skating rink.The project is expected to take several years to complete with a current target date of 2029 since"it's very involved," according to officials.
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