[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Housing at Former Philadelphia Navy Yard (PA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Living in ships' shadows may be reality As many as 1.5 million square  
feet of rental housing could be added to the Navy Yard.

by Erin Arvedlund
Philadelphia Inquirer (PA)
April 19, 2015

Have you ever dreamed of living seaside at the Navy Yard, the vast  
onetime shipbuilding hub that's emerged as a hip urban office campus?  
Soon, you may be able to rent homes in the shadow of mothballed naval  
ships.

The Philadelphia Industrial Development Corp. is actively negotiating  
deed restrictions with the U.S. Navy to build housing at  
Philadelphia's Navy Yard for the first time.

John Grady, president of the PIDC, said the agency hopes talks will  
lead to opening the campus to developer pitches within a year. PIDC  
envisions as much as 1.5 million square feet of rental housing, as  
well as small retailers and amenities.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.philly.com/philly/classifieds/real_estate/ 
20150419_Living_in_ships__shadows_may_be_reality.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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