The parcel is part of plans for what’s dubbed the Lower Schuylkill Biotech Campus, which would be fronted by the Bartram’s Mile trail.
Mayor Cherelle L. Parker talks with Bartram’s Garden executive director Maitreyi Roy and board president Charles Lomax on Monday following a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announcement of $2 million to cleanup the old 49th Street Terminal , a contaminated site in Southwest Philadelphia.
PIDC to clean up the 49th Street Terminal at 1700 S. 49th St. The site, just less than an acre, was an oil terminal from 1942 to 2006. Currently vacant, it is contaminated by petroleum and semi-volatile organic compounds.But the land is part of a string of parcels reclaimed along Bartram’s Mile for the planned 40-acre campus, which would be divided into a 20-acre section north of Bartram’s Garden and a 20-acre section south of it.
Angie Fredrickson, vice president of real estate services at PIDC, said the 49th Street Terminal site is “the last piece of the puzzle” to move forward with the campus.The grant for the 49th Street Terminal was part of $300 million announced by the Biden administration to address polluted brownfields, which are often in communities where 20% or more people live at or below the federal poverty line and 30% or more identifies as a minority.
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