Philadelphia changes site for new market
Philadelphia changes site for new market
PHILADELPHIA -- The site for the new Philadelphia wholesale produce market has moved a mile to the south, but members of the city's wholesale produce trade are not bothered by the latest announcement regarding their future home.
Jimmy Storey, president of the Philadelphia Fresh Food Terminal Corp. said the final market site will be located on 83 acres in the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Like the Pasha site off Delaware Avenue, which until recent days was the chosen site for the market, the navy yard is within sight of the Walt Whitman Bridge, which connects Philadelphia and New Jersey, and spans a great deal of international produce trade on the Delaware River.
"To me the site looks good," Mr. Storey told The Produce News Aug. 17, the day after a Food Terminal Corp. board meeting. "Every stockholder I've taken over there is happy with the site too.
The only problem with the site is that it requires an access road that will cost between $30 million and $50 million, Mr. Storey said. The road must be built over existing railroad tracks.
Among the reasons the site was moved is that Philadelphia has approved the creation of slot machine parlors on Delaware Avenue, and there were concerns about too much traffic between those who will be gambling money and those who gamble every day in the produce business.
The new market is expected to be built within two years after construction begins. Plans laid last winter called for the market construction to begin at the Pasha site this summer.
Jimmy Storey, president of the Philadelphia Fresh Food Terminal Corp. said the final market site will be located on 83 acres in the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Like the Pasha site off Delaware Avenue, which until recent days was the chosen site for the market, the navy yard is within sight of the Walt Whitman Bridge, which connects Philadelphia and New Jersey, and spans a great deal of international produce trade on the Delaware River.
"To me the site looks good," Mr. Storey told The Produce News Aug. 17, the day after a Food Terminal Corp. board meeting. "Every stockholder I've taken over there is happy with the site too.
The only problem with the site is that it requires an access road that will cost between $30 million and $50 million, Mr. Storey said. The road must be built over existing railroad tracks.
Among the reasons the site was moved is that Philadelphia has approved the creation of slot machine parlors on Delaware Avenue, and there were concerns about too much traffic between those who will be gambling money and those who gamble every day in the produce business.
The new market is expected to be built within two years after construction begins. Plans laid last winter called for the market construction to begin at the Pasha site this summer.
