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Nutter Plans Overhaul of Waterfront Agency

PHILADELPHIA-Reform of Penn's Landing Corp. is top priority as Mayor Michael Nutter endorses an action plan to spur waterfront development.

By Paul Bubny | Updated on June 27, 2008

PHILADELPHIA-The 38-year-old Penn’s Landing Corp. will be revamped into a waterfront management agency with “greater transparency” and a broader mandate of overseeing development along the central Delaware River, Mayor Michael Nutter said Thursday evening. In line with an action plan presented on Thursday and endorsed by Nutter, the mayor will begin appointing a new board for the renamed Delaware Waterfront Corp. within 30 days, and will also submit an interim zoning plan for the district to City Council by September.

Nutter also said he would ask PennPraxis—the nonprofit planning group which outlined a 10-point, 10-year program for the waterfront on Thursday—to conduct a 30-day to 60-day study of whether the two casinos planned for the area would compromise the program’s goals. Specifically, the study will look at whether casino traffic would interfere with plans to make a stretch of Delaware Avenue and Columbus Boulevard more pedestrian-friendly.

“We must answer the essential question: Can the casino plans at their proposed locations work or not? An honest, legitimate, third-party analysis must be conducted,” said Nutter in prepared remarks at the Independence Seaport Museum on Penn’s Landing. Harris Steinberg, executive director of PennPraxis, tells GlobeSt.com that his organization will analyze the casino plans’ current transportation models as well as developing “what sustainable development models for this type of use would be.” PennPraxis is an operation of the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design.

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