Opinion: Garage proposal will make Grays Ferry Avenue worse

Dated: June 24 2025

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The Grays Ferry neighborhood has been steadily severed from its neighbors by highways, rail tracks and noxious industrial uses. Now, many hope the new bridge linking Grays Ferry Avenue to Center City will bring the neighborhood back into the fold. Inga Saffron, a columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer notes: “Unfortunately, that transformation could be undermined before it even begins by Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, which plans to build a thousand-car garage at 3000 Grays Ferry Ave. Never mind that the hospital’s main campus is nearly a mile away and on the other side of the Schuylkill. CHOP has decided that this prime block between 30th and 31st streets is the perfect spot to build remote parking for hospital employees.” Read more in the Inquirer. 
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer; 5/28/2025 

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