[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Philadelphia Naval Yard

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

What Democrats Can Learn from Philadelphia's Navy Yard


by Christopher A. Treble 
National Interest
July 24, 2016

As Democrats descend on the City of Brotherly Love for their national convention this week, they might be tempted to visit the home of some of the city’s famous businesses, such as the Tasty Baking Company, maker of delicious Tastykakes; clothier Urban Outfitters; or pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, a DNC sponsor [3].

Today, they are able to visit all of these places, located near the far south end of Broad Street, where that iconic Philadelphia boulevard meets the Delaware River.

But a generation ago, most people couldn’t go there. The Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and the adjacent Philadelphia Naval Station were closed to the public. Today, The Navy Yard [4] is home to more than 150 businesses, employing more than twelve thousand people. It has restaurants and retail shops. And last year it hosted one hundred events that drew more than one hundred thousand visitors. One of the bigger events of the year is the Blue Cross Broad Street Run, a ten-mile race which starts at Broad and W. Fisher, and ends a quarter of a mile inside of the Navy Yard’s gate. The opening of the former military property made this all possible.
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For the entire blog, see
http://nationalinterest.org/print/blog/the-skeptics/what-democrats-can-learn-philadelphias-navy-yard-17080

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