The Chinatown Stitch project will receive $158 million in federal funding to help transform the bustling are of Philadelphia by adding more green space and new amenities.
Chinatown will soon get an expensive makeover after officials announced a hefty $158 million will go toward the Chinatown Stitch project. The federal funding for this project came as a very nice surprise, sealing the deal for a reconnected Chinatown and transforming the look, feel and accessibility for the busy area of Center City. For the last couple of years, a vision had been in mind for a transformative project physically reconnecting Chinatown over the Vine Street expressway.
It will create green space and community space and amenities that the community never had," said John Chin, Executive Director, Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation.Officials say the decades-old Vine Street expressway construction effectively severed Chinatown, and this new project with green space, and improved pedestrian and community access will change all that.
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