Development plan may seek to cap still more track near 30th St. Station
A decades-long development plan for the area around 30th Street Station may include the near-complete capping of the rail yards to the north of the station building.
A decades-long development plan for the area around 30th Street Station may include the near-complete capping of the rail yards to the north of the station building.
Previously, backers of the 30th Street Station District Plan had proposed leaving a large section of track to the east of the project site exposed, due to the challenges of building over the dense section of rail.
But plans are now being drawn up to largely cap that section, which is controlled by SEPTA, according to according to Keith Orris, a senior vice president at district plan partner Drexel University.
The section's capping would not occur until after 2040, and would be dependent on real estate values in the area rising enough to justify the expense of the engineering feat, Orris said during a recent appearance at the Urban Land Institute conference last week in Philadelphia.
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