Philadelphia 2035 (Columbia, Penn: taxi, shuttle, paid)

[drive carephilly]

Originally Posted by Marius Pontmercy

You also have to take demand and capacity into consideration. As you mentioned upthread, Elizabeth is a crowded mess. As long as the demand is there to fill capacity at east coast ports we can continue to expand. If that demand drops then you'll start to see real cannibalization between regional economic centers. That won't happen so long as the northeast continues to grow.

Agreed. But right now the only constraint on capacity in Elizabeth is throughput. They can't move it out fast enough on trucks which is why they're shifting to barges and looking at expanding their rail capacity.

Philly will always be the port for foodstuffs but as far as containers go the traffic to Baltimore, Wilmington, Chester, Gloucester City, Philly, etc is going to remain regional.

The business has been moving towards larger ships and fewer ports for a long time. Miami, Savannah, Charleston, Norfolk, NY/NJ, and Halifax have emerged as the major, regional ports for container traffic on the east coast.

Just sayin' beware when industry groups start pushing for taxpayer funded improvements past Chester - because the big container ships that are calling on those other ports can't fit under the Commodore Barry. The biggest ships have to wait for low tide to get under the Verazzano.

[rotodome]

Originally Posted by drive carephilly

Agreed. But right now the only constraint on capacity in Elizabeth is throughput. They can't move it out fast enough on trucks which is why they're shifting to barges and looking at expanding their rail capacity.

Philly will always be the port for foodstuffs but as far as containers go the traffic to Baltimore, Wilmington, Chester, Gloucester City, Philly, etc is going to remain regional.

The business has been moving towards larger ships and fewer ports for a long time. Miami, Savannah, Charleston, Norfolk, NY/NJ, and Halifax have emerged as the major, regional ports for container traffic on the east coast.

Just sayin' beware when industry groups start pushing for taxpayer funded improvements past Chester - because the big container ships that are calling on those other ports can't fit under the Commodore Barry. The biggest ships have to wait for low tide to get under the Verazzano.

wow - it's insane how big these new ships are!

[RightonWalnut]

In his annual state of Center City, Paul Levy, executive director at Center City District, said Philadelphia needs to set this goal: Create 50,000 to 100,000 new jobs by 2023. To get there, the city needs to get the wage tax below 3 percent and cut the net income portion of the business income and receipts tax in half, Levy said.
"We have the perfect tax structure for Baldwin locomotive and Flexible Flyer - things that can't move," Levy said.

Can Philly bring in upwards of 100,000 new jobs in 10 years? - Philadelphia Business Journal

[RightonWalnut]

A Miami advertising agency has opened a Philadelphia office.
Kabookaboo, whose clients include the Midtown Village developer Goldman Properties, opened an office at 1315 Walnut St., a Goldman-owned building.
The office will also serve clients on the I-95 Corridor, from New York to Washington, D.C.


Kabookaboo will have better access to Northeast clients - Philadelphia Business Journal

[pman]

no disrespect to paul levy, but the wage tax dates to 1938, baldwin locomotive had moved out of the city by 1928. baldwin locomotive could and did move, so did flexible flyer which was moved to the midwest before going to china. the idea that businesses couldn't move in the past seems baseless. the point being is that it never made sense.

[RightonWalnut]

The Philadelphia Parking Authority offices will be closed six days starting Wednesday while the agency moves from the old Evening Bulletin building at 3101 Market St. to new headquarters at 701 Market, the former Lit Bros. building.

The PPA's current landlord, Drexel University, will raze 3101 Market to build a new biomedical research facility.

Parking Authority office to be down for moving out

[cpomp]

I wonder what Drexel has planned for that space.

[phillies2011]

Originally Posted by cpomp

I wonder what Drexel has planned for that space.

Just a guess, but perhaps a new biomedical research facility?

Originally Posted by Summersm343

Parking Authority office to be down for moving out

[RightonWalnut]

Originally Posted by cpomp

I wonder what Drexel has planned for that space.

Biomed research facility and one or two new highrise dorms, depending how much space the Biomed facility takes up. The dorm space that can't fit on that block will be built on the parking lots along JFK.

A new highrise hotel at the corner of 30th and Market and a 5 story addition to the Bulletin Building.

This is what I've heard recently.

[Cnote11]

PlanPhilly | Penn Street Trail taking shape

PlanPhilly | Work on Columbia Avenue sculptures gets go-ahead, other waterfront projects progress

Quite excited to get more trails!