Shoddily built by a corrupt contractor, the replacements for homes destroyed in the 1985 MOVE bombing have been a source of controversy for Philadelphia.
Drexel University’s Dornsife Center for Community Partnership opened in 2014 on a site in Mantua, approximately a half-mile from the campus’s historic core.
Vue32, a 16-story mixed-use apartment tower, stands on a high ridge on the eastern boundary of Drexel University’s campus, overlooking the Amtrak – SEPTA railyards and affording dramatic views of Center City.
View east from a ridge on Drexel University’s boundary that overlooks the Amtrak–SEPTA rail yards, the long-term, projected site of an over-build for development of University City’s Drexel-centric Innovation Neighborhood.
Opened in 2011 on Chestnut Street near the corner of 33rd Street, the Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building honors the memory of Drexel’s transformative president Constantine Papadakis.
This community garden, named for Powelton Village’s Summer and Winter streets, was created on University Redevelopment Area Unit 5 on a block-square that was off limits for campus expansion.
The URBN Center houses Drexel's Westphal College of Media Arts and Design. Behind the building, on a Unit 3 property, is Drexel's Pearlstein Gallery in the URBN Center Annex.
