PHILADELPHIA, PA—In the Monopoly board game, drawing the Chance card instructing you to “Take a ride on the Reading” meant an opportunity for the player to acquire a valuable property.
The Reading Railroad is long gone, but its impact on Philadelphia's urban landscape remains. At the Union League Club today, the Philadelphia commercial real estate community turned out by the hundreds to learn more about plans to convert the railroad's winding viaducts, below-grade passages, and even tunnels into urban park land like the acclaimed High Line in lower Manhattan.
The briefing was organized by the Philadelphia district of the Urban Land Institute.
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