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Jun 8
2011

Springfield Beer Getting CHOPPED

If you’ve driven or biked over the South Street bridge in the past week or so, you’ve probably noticed a demolition project going on at the base of the bridge, on Schuylkill Ave. Here are some recent photos, with accompanying shots of what was demolished.

Same view, from a few months ago. Image Copyright Google, 2011

Same view, from a few months ago. Image Copyright Google, 2011

The demolition is in anticipation of a huge CHOP project set to proceed over the next several years. According to CHOP PR Director George Bochanski Jr., this project is moving through the planning stages, with development RFP’s currently being analyzed and contracts still a few months away from being awarded. The site, which will stretch across a 9 acre plot on Schuylkill Ave, will include the areas photographed above and the former JFK Vocational High School. CHOP will mostly house clinical research and operations for the hospital on Schuylkill Ave., in a space that will approach a million square feet. This development represents a return to the eastern banks of the river, where CHOP was located until 1974.

The bad news: Springfield Beer Distributor, the most convenient beer distributor for most of Center City West, is moving to 24th and Oregon. The good news: It’ll be at least several months before that move takes place. With CHOP still deciding exactly how the development will take shape, Springfield will be allowed to continue operations, and we will continue to enjoy a local beer distributor with excellent delivery services. So drink ‘em while you can, folks- for the children.

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Posted in Graduate Hospital | Tagged , , | 7 Comments
  • bp

    this is such an excellent project for G-Ho!

  • pd

    If it’s anything like what CHOP put up on the other side of the river, we’re in for a bumpy ride folks. Next thing we know, parking lots on prime riverfront real estate!

  • http://profiles.google.com/g.k.thompson Geoff Kees Thompson

    shame to lose a cool little old piece of fabric that harkened back to the days when the river was used for more than just shuffling people, but actual goods.

    regardless, good to have CHOP to the rescue for revitalizing.

  • http://www.philadelphiaspeaks.com/forum/southwest-center-city/23052-whats-happening-base-south-street-bridge-east-side.html#post380324 What’s happening at the base of the South Street Bridge (east side)?

    [...] is a post on Naked Philly on this development. Springfield Beer Getting CHOPPED | NakedPhilly The demolition is in anticipation of a huge CHOP project set to proceed over the next several [...]

  • mcget

    OK, so look for a million sq/ft of highrises, with no amenities, arranged to dump several thousand cars onto three streets three times a day.

    Penn needs to learn how to do mixed use. Here’s hoping they figure it out before they start pouring foundations.

    The JFK building would make excellent housing for CHOP and HUP workers, then you’d have a real walkable community instead of a massive traffic and pollution creator. But the word is 3 or 4 towers for office workers, no residences or businesses and lots of parking for cars which will somehow all fit over the South Street Bridge at rush hour.

    Irony is an issue here: Chop and Hup are fighting cancer, but autos are the number one emitter of carcinogens and the number one killer of children in the U.S. — and those two institutions are centered around huge auto access and storage.

    mcget, and yeah, I live within a stone’s throw of the bridge and I run a bike shop and I depend on oxygen to breathe.

  • Guest

    Chop is not owned by Penn

  • http://nakedphilly.com/graduate-hospital/update-chop-will-make-schuylkill-avenue-the-place-to-be/ Update: CHOP Will Make Schuylkill Avenue the Place to Be | NakedPhilly

    [...] you may recall, we brought this site to your attention a little less than a year ago, when several of the buildings surrounding Springfield Beer Distributor were being torn down. At the time, we told you that the 9 acre plot on Schuylkill Ave will include the Springfield Beer [...]

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