Railway and Penn

JHS
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:56:48 +0000

I wouldn’t worry about it during the day at all. At night, yes, it’s three long, largely empty and not-so-well-lit blocks.

They are doing something about it: the Cira 2 complex is going to be developed there between 29th and 31st south of Market. The problem is that there are a lot of huge, under-utilized buildings (30th St. Post Office now largely abandoned, old Philadelphia Bulletin facility, various crappy offices, parking lots) with no street life at night. The space between Penn and the river is where everyone is looking for the next wave of big development in the city, but for the moment it’s, um, ripe for development.