Penn Connects 2.0 Report by Sasaki

PENN CONNECTS 2.0: A RENEWED VISION FOR THE FUTURE

JUNE 2012

a letter from the president Five years ago, we crafted a bold blueprint for Penn’s future entitled Penn Connects: A Vision for the Future. This award-winning plan was imbued with a strategic vision to greatly enhance Penn’s integration of education and research, expand our engagement with local neighbors and global partners, and create new pathways to increase accessibility of our campus. What we have achieved in Phase 1 of Penn Connects is nothing short of remarkable. Together with our partners in campus development we have: ›› Added 4.8 million gross square feet of new and renovated space to our campus; ›› Renovated 2700 College House beds and provided 1000 new market rate beds; ›› Acquired 45 acres for future campus development; ›› Opened Penn Park, our glistening new 24 acre urban oasis at our eastern gateway; ›› Spurred $342 million in private investment at the former Post Office facilities; and ›› Achieved LEED silver, gold and platinum certification in our newest buildings. Phase 2 of Penn Connects renews and enhances our bold vision. In the report that follows, Penn Connects 2.0, we focus on the next five years of University growth, while also outlining our potential in the years beyond. Our vision encompasses five primary themes, which are united by the overarching goals of connectivity, sustainability and educational growth. Just as our purchase of the former Postal Lands gave us the opportunity to define our eastern expansion in Phase 1, with a spectacular new park for our entire community to enjoy, our most recent purchase of 23 acres of land just south of the University Avenue bridge—the former DuPont Marshall Labs site—has yielded another important area of growth. This new parcel, which we are calling Penn’s South Bank, will support a dynamic campus environment that drives technology-led economic development, fosters broad-based collaboration with Penn’s leading researchers, supports business innovation and promotes the development, transfer, and commercialization of cutting-edge research. Join me as we renew the vision for our model urban campus, more integrated and sustainable than ever before!

Dr. Amy Gutmann President, University of Pennsylvania

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1.1 Theme 1 - Penn Connects: Teaching and Scholarship

1.2 Theme 2 - Penn Connects: Research and Clinical Care

1.3 Theme 3 - Penn Connects: Living and Learning

1.4 Theme 4 - Penn Connects: Campus and Community

1.5 Theme 5 - Penn Connects: Past and Future

1.6 Phase 2 (2011-2015) 37

2. Areas of Study 39 2.1 Penn Medicine Expansion 41 2.2 Housing Opportunities 43 2.3 Walnut Gateway 49

2.4 38th and Spruce Streets Redevelopment

2.5 Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s South Bank 53

3. Civic Framework 61 3.1 Connectivity 63 3.2 Sustainability 67 3.3 Multi-Modal Circulation Plan 69 3.4 Infill Development 75

4. Phasing 83 4.1 Phase 1 (2006-2010) 85 4.2 Phase 2 (2011-2015) 87 4.3 Phase 3 (2016-2030) 89 4.4 Penn Connects 2.0 Vision (2011-2030)

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1.0 Renewing the Vision Penn Connects: A Vision for the Future set out an exciting blueprint for the Penn campus. This 2006 plan was a direct response to the Penn Compact and the campus wide opportunities presented by the acquisition of the former US Post Office Building at 30th and Market Streets, the Post Office Annex, and 14 acres of land along the Schuylkill River. It provided clear recommendations for incorporating these postal acquisitions into the campus, establishing a major physical presence for Penn along the Schuylkill River, and for creating new connections between the campus and Center City. Since 2006, Penn has completed nearly all of the projects set out as part of the Phase 1 implementation plan, resulting in a far-reaching, positive impact on the campus and community beyond.

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The renewed vision of Penn Connects 2.0 builds upon the accomplishments of Phase 1 and the acquisition of a 23 acre former industrial parcel located at 3401 Grays Ferry Avenue, just south of campus along the Schuylkill River. Penn Connects 2.0 enhances and reinforces the planning and design vision for the campus in response to emerging sustainability goals. The renewed vision is based on the following four principles: Focus the academic mission in the core campus, highlighting the integration of Penn’s outstanding 12 schools. Encourage connections within and beyond the campus to embrace interdisciplinary academic pursuit, research discovery and clinical care.

Develop vibrant living and activity spaces that support the learning environment. Employ University sustainability goals and objectives to inform future development. In particular, balance new construction with adaptive reuse opportunities.

THEMES

The above principles coalesce around five primary themes in Phase 2, a five-year horizon from 2011-2015:

1. Penn Connects: Teaching and Scholarship Encourage integration of knowledge between 12 schools.

2. Penn Connects: Research and Clinical Care Encourage integration of knowledge from “bench to bedside.”

3. Penn Connects: Living and Learning Encourage integration of knowledge beyond the classroom.

4. Penn Connects: Campus and Community Encourage integration of knowledge with local and global partners.

5. Penn Connects: Past and Future Encourage integration of knowledge via reinvestment and new growth. Renewing the Vision

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teaching and scholarship Penn Connects 2.0 outlines opportunities for integrating knowledge and learning across the University’s 12 schools: School of Arts and Sciences; School of Dental Medicine; Annenberg School for Communication; School of Design; Graduate School of Education; School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Penn Law; Perelman School of Medicine; School of Nursing; School of Social Policy and Practice; School of Veterinary Medicine; and the Wharton School. Penn’s compact campus, where all 12 schools are located within a 10 minute walk of one another, enables students to combine theoretical learning and practical thinking across disciplines. Penn Connects 2.0 enhances the compact nature of the campus by locating several new academic priority projects within the core of the University and by proposing significant renovation and reinvestment in existing academic facilities. Several new construction and renovation projects are proposed in Phase 2 (2011-2015) to support the academic mission.

New Construction Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology Conceived as a seminal collaboration between two schools—the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the School of Arts and Sciences—the Singh Center for Nanotechnology will create a worldclass research facility bringing science and technology together in one place. This regional center for cuttingedge innovation will serve nanotech researchers from across Penn’s campus as well as neighboring institutions. The Center’s landscaped courtyard will serve as a welcoming campus gateway along Walnut Street. A dramatic cantilevered forum for lectures and events and a galleria where visitors can watch scientists at work behind glass will promote nanotech understanding.

Theme 1: Teaching and Scholarship

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New Construction

Steinberg Hall – Dietrich Hall

Golkin Hall Golkin Hall will afford a more intimate and harmoniously connected Penn Law, reinvigorated for a growing law school community. Its flexible seminar and collaborative study spaces, moot court room, auditorium, and cafe have been thoughtfully designed to promote interaction among faculty, students, and staff, and to foster the collaborative scholarship for which Penn Law is widely known. The carefully scaled Sansom Street facade, featuring Flemish-bond brickwork and marble accents, contextually acknowledges the neighboring Silverman Hall while announcing a modern entrance for today’s law community. The beloved Law School courtyard has been restored, and is joined by new roof gardens and an enhanced streetscape along historic Sansom Row.

The Wharton School’s new four-story addition to the west side of Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall will feature a beaconing new entrance and provide an inviting courtyard. Inside the building, two large tiered classrooms will be joined by collaborative group study spaces, seminar rooms and faculty offices. The exterior limestone and glazed facades will complement the existing Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall, while establishing a meaningful granite-paved plaza and glowing facade facing the Class of ’62 Walkway along 37th Street.

High Bay Research Lab Penn astronomers and a team of international researchers are developing the most highly sensitive telescope of its kind to be carried by balloon. BLAST: The Balloonborne Large-Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope helps researchers understand the formation and evolution of stars and galaxies. Astronomers carefully construct this telescope within the new high bay lab, bringing it outdoors on a bright yellow steel beam for calibration with the stars, before eventually sending the telescope on its balloon trip; once the telescope returns to Earth, it must be reconstructed in the laboratory before future missions. The nearly cube-shaped design features a 42’ high ceiling, exposed structural steel framing, and a crane beam and glass sliding doors for moving the BLAST telescope indoors or out. A distinctive showcase window on Walnut Street affords passers-by a visual learning experience as they see astronomers at work.

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Neural Behavioral Sciences Building A revolution is happening in brain science as researchers connect human biology with human behavior and consciousness. The Neural Behavioral Sciences Building will put Penn students and faculty at the forefront of that revolution. The NBS building will bring together under one roof the Psychology and Biology Departments, the Biological Basis of Behavior Program, and the Penn Genomics Institute, creating a vital hub for life sciences at Penn. NBS will include new laboratory classrooms, study spaces, an auditorium and cafe. The strategic location along University Avenue, in close proximity to the School of Arts and Sciences, Perelman School of Medicine, Nursing, Veterinary Medicine, and Dental Schools, will spark integration of knowledge, teaching and research among these fields.

Renovation Medical Education Center

Providing a world-class medical education is vital to safeguarding the health of our nation and the world. No institution has been doing this longer or with greater standards of excellence than the University of Pennsylvania. The new Medical Education Center will be at the heart of The Perelman School of Medicine’s historic home on Hamilton Walk, greeting the campus community with a new entrance on axis with 36th Street Walk and connecting with the Life Sciences precinct to the west and the Nursing and Medical precinct along Guardian Drive to the south. The new center will feature study spaces, seminar rooms, a reconfigured Biomedical Library and a café. New classrooms will be flexible and technology-friendly to reflect medicine’s new emphasis on team learning and information sharing. This collaborative environment, supported by new administrative and admissions departments will continue to make Penn Medicine’s students extraordinary healers.

Theme 1: Teaching and Scholarship

Meyerson Hall PennDesign is engaged, every day, in the discussion and development of new ideas. While these creative ideas are fostered in numerous facilities, the core of the School of Design radiates from Meyerson Hall. Its prime location at 34th and Walnut streets and fronting College Green is at an important gateway to Penn. In order to prepare the next generation of PennDesign planners and designers the School’s studios, critique spaces, and its research and faculty offices will be realigned with an interactive pedagogy, enhanced sustainability and greater community awareness. The planned renovations will provide a new welcome doorstep facing Walnut Street and announce the studio life of the School to the campus community.

University Museum West Wing The completed first phase of work to the Museum’s historic West Wing included refurbishment of public galleries and the creation of a teaching laboratory for ceramic petrography. The next phase will restore the architecturally unique Widener Lecture Hall, which will return to its original function as a beautiful public event space after several decades of use as a behindthe-scenes preparation area for exhibitions. Additional planned work will include a new state-of-the-art suite of conservation labs and several additional teaching and research labs. The addition of climate control throughout the West Wing, together with replacement of the windows with historically accurate but airtight and energy efficient versions, will significantly enhance the Penn Museum visitor experience and provide greater protection and stability for the artifacts on display.

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Silverman Hall

Vance Hall

This fifth and final phase of work within Penn Law’s gracious Silverman Hall will be comprised of renovations to multiple lecture halls, seminar rooms, and meeting spaces. With the completion of Golkin Hall and the relocation of the School’s Development Offices to the new building, subdivided former spaces will be returned to their original grandeur, while being outfitted with state-of-the-art classroom technology and conference support amenities.

The latest upgrades to Vance Hall greet prospective Wharton MBA candidates in a comfortable ground floor Admissions Suite featuring enhanced finishes bathed in natural light, befitting the home of the country’s leading business school. On the second floor, colorful new furnishings highlight the School’s innovative Information Technology Suite and its support spaces.

Special Collections Center – Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center The new Special Collections Center atop the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center has recently completed Phase 1 with a dramatic facelift, featuring a central glazed pavilion, reading room and student study lounge all in the treetops overlooking College Green. Phase 2 will add new seminar rooms and a Shakespeare Library completing the 6th floor’s transformation into an intellectual commons designed to make rare books and special collections more usable and visible, opening up new possibilities for teaching and learning for the Penn community, visiting scholars, and the public. Its stunning rooftop views of the city and campus will emphasize what has always distinguished Penn from its peers when it comes to special collections—the greater illumination that comes with openness, access, and exchange.

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PROPOSED View of the Walnut Street Gateway showing the Singh Center for Nanotechnology and High Bay Research Lab

EXISTING View of the Walnut Street Gateway

Theme 1: Teaching and Scholarship

Penn Connects the integration of knowledge and interdisciplinary learning. Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s compact campus, where all 12 schools are located within a 10 minute walk, enables students and faculty to combine theoretical learning and practical thinking.

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Penn Presbyterian Hospital

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TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER

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research and clinical care Penn’s world-class health science research in medicine, nursing, veterinary medicine and dentistry are all located in the compact core of the campus. This physical proximity facilitates the translation of science from “bench to bedside” and affords interdisciplinary collaborative research opportunities for faculty and students. The new construction and renovation projects planned in Penn Connects 2.0 are designed to enhance the collaborative process and the exchange of ideas.

New Construction Translational Research Center Medical Research and Clinical Care are undergoing one of the most dramatic transformations in recent history. Translational medicine is spanning the borders between lab bench and bedside, translating breakthroughs in basic research into advanced treatments for patients more quickly. The Translational Research Center (TRC) of the Perelman Scool of Medicine (PSOM), which first opened in 2010, will receive three additional floors of fitout space in this second phase of work. Directly connected to the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine (PCAM) and the Roberts Proton Therapy Center, the TRC will further advance the goal of giving patients faster access to the most advanced treatment anywhere. The new space will focus on supporting a team of interdisciplinary scientists and physicians who study the genes and molecular mechanisms fundamental to human development and the human biological clock. Applications of this work extend to behavior, physiology, regeneration, and cancer therapy.

Theme 2: Research and Clinical Care

Clyde F. Barker Transplant House The Barker Transplant House represents the reality that Penn Medicine’s patient care extends beyond hospitals walls to continued commitment to improve the patient experience. More than onethird of Penn Medicine’s transplant patients must travel more than 50 miles for their surgery. All too often, the joy of receiving an organ is tempered by the reality of extended hospital visits for patients and non-reimbursable travel expenses for their family. This sun-filled, home-like facility provides overnight accommodations, convenient services and educational support at a nominal cost for transplant patients and their families. Named in honor of the physician who performed the first kidney transplant at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in 1966, the Barker Transplant House is located at 3940 Spruce Street.

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South Pavilion Extension â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine Aligned with the master plan for Penn Medicine, the South Pavilion Extension will add five floors of clinical care to the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine. These new clinical facilities will have a direct link to the central core atrium and amenities at PCAM and take advantage of views of the Center City Philadelphia skyline. This clinical care addition will form the base of a future phased research and office tower above.

Mixed Use Development at the Former Pennsylvania Hall Site On this parcel of land that once housed the former Pennsylvania Hall of the Philadelphia Civic Center, an interim surface parking lot will be redeveloped to accommodate a phased project including structured parking, along with medicalrelated office towers. This site at the western end of Civic Center Boulevard acts as a gateway to the Health Center for vehicular-oriented patients and staff arriving via University Avenue.

Penn Presbyterian Medical Center Addition For more than a century, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center has provided outstanding health care services to the West Philadelphia community. Through its continued growth over the years, Penn Presbyterian ranks as one of the regionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s premier medical facilities, combining state-of-the-art technology with personalized care from outstanding physicians and staff. Current expansion plans will focus on serving muscular and skeletal ambulatory care and acute care needs. A four-story expansion is planned fronting along 38th Street, with a new public entrance linked to the existing Penn Presbyterian campus core.

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Renovation Clair M. Fagin Hall – Phase 5

Richards Medical Research Laboratories – C & D Towers

Using the latest scientific technologies and the most innovative educational methods, Penn’s School of Nursing educates emerging nursing professional leaders in both the art and science of nursing. Building on previous successful phases of renovation to Clair M. Fagin Hall, Phase 5 will provide remodeled state of the art classrooms and simulation labs on the first floor. The Health Care Laboratory is the essential operational curricular component that transforms critical thinking into the “how to” of practice. This interactive teaching model elicits appropriate application of critical thinking in anticipated care of patients across life spans within a safe environment.

The Richards Medical Labs house various Perelman School of Medicine labs and offices in three towers attached in pinwheel formation to a central fourth tower housing common support. This first significant phase of renovation to Richards will encompass lab spaces in the D Tower and support spaces in the C Tower to accommodate Penn’s Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. This multidisciplinary program is dedicated to understanding the neural bases of human thought. Current CCN research addresses the central problems of cognitive neuroscience, including perception, attention, learning, memory, language, decision-making, emotion and development. This renovation project will provide a prototype for future phases of work at Richards Labs.

Clinical Renovations – School of Dental Medicine

Ryan Hospital – School of Veterinary Medicine

The School of Dental Medicine completed a master plan for the research, clinical and academic components of the School. The leading priorities for phased renovations will commence with renovated Endodontic clinical services on the second floor of the Evans Building followed by additional lower level clinics and eventually the Main Evans clinical space.

The School of Veterinary Medicine completed a master plan for the research, clinical and academic components of the School and its Ryan Hospital. The leading priority for phased renovations to Ryan Hospital will build upon the recently completed Non-Invasive Operating Room Suite and continue to optimize ground floor hospital clinical and diagnostic services.

Theme 2: Research and Clinical Care

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EXISTING View of the Perelman school of medicineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Translational Research Center looking south over the Spruce Street Plaza site

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PROPOSED View of the Perelman school of medicine’s Translational Research Center and new patient hospital tower looking south over the Spruce Street Plaza

Translational science fosters “bench to bedside” opportunities for collaborative research among clinicians, faculty and students. Penn’s world-class health science research in medicine, nursing, veterinary medicine and dentistry are all located within close proximity.

Theme 2: Research and Clinical Care

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living and Learning Penn Connects 2.0 integrates living and learning experiences on the campus with a focus on undergraduate life. This theme will enhance housing, learning, study centers, sports, recreation and composite facilities throughout the campus. Penn Connects 2.0 features several priority new construction and renovation projects.

New Construction New College House at Hill Square

Education Commons

This 21st-century student residence will be the first to be designed and built specifically as a College House since Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s popular College House system began in the late â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90s. With 350 beds, a modern dining commons, and house master suites, the new College House will offer undergraduates a premier home in which to live, learn, and grow as part of a supportive community of faculty, staff, and graduate students. Student residents interested in particular fields will be able to live in clusters, and the House will have its own studentmanaged program to present speakers and performersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all on a vibrant green quadrangle at Hill Square where a busy pedestrian path connects the campus with the city.

Located in the Mezzanine level at Franklin Field, the Education Commons provides an exciting new study lounge for students. With its close proximity to the David Rittenhouse Labs, the Engineering School, and numerous athletic facilities the Commons is a convenient study center for this eastern campus precinct. The study lounge is managed by the Library and features ever-popular group study rooms and casual study booths, all beneath a floating cloud ceiling framing dramatic views of Shoemaker Green.

Theme 3: Living and Learning

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3939 and 4001 Chestnut Street Apartments Building on the success of HUB 3945, two additional phases are planned for this 40th and Chestnut neighborhood. 3939 and 4001 Chestnut will be developed by third party investors and feature market rate student apartments with ground floor retail amenities.

This third party redevelopment will create a vibrant new market-rate apartment building at 40th and Pine Streets. The apartments and their amenities will be attractive to graduate and professional students seeking to live near campus in this Spruce Hill neighborhood. The building will be scaled and detailed to be in context to the existing residential neighborhood fabric.

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New Recreation Field

A new recreational field is envisioned for use by all members of the Penn community. The surface would be artificial nylon turf to permit year round use and accommodate the needs of the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s field hockey team.

40th and Pine Streets Apartments

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Renovation

Hutchinson Gymnasium and Infill Building

The ARCH

Located at Locust and 36th Street Walks, the busy heart of campus where students, faculty, and visiting alumni cross paths every day, this 83-year-old Gothic Revival building is home base for three student cultural groups and the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships, all of which will benefit from planned new spatial collaboration and enhanced programming. When renovations are complete, The ARCH will become a prime location for performances and exhibits, lectures and academic resources, or a leisurely cup of coffee at its café on the Locust Walk terrace. This campus center will welcome the entire University community, celebrating the cultural and intellectual energy of student life at Penn.

The Palestra-Hutchinson complex, which opened in 1927, is comprised of three distinct volumes. The middle volume, home to a decommissioned natatorium, will be adaptively reused as a multipurpose gymnasium. Its original steel trusses and skylights will be restored, defining this unique space for intercollegiate and intramural sports. The adjoining Hutchinson Gymnasium will be repurposed as a new fencing center and expanded gymnastic center. New locker rooms, showers, training and coaches’ offices will be included along with HVAC upgrades.

Class of 1920 Dining Commons The entrance level of 1920 Commons will be redesigned to accommodate new food service retail offerings, while the existing Starbucks will relocate to the lower level into an expanded restaurant and student lounge. The enhanced lower level will spill out onto a paved outdoor plaza featuring a central trellis, new landscape and outdoor grill.

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Levy Tennis Pavilion Fronting Penn Park, the Levy Pavilion, home to Penn’s indoor tennis courts, will undergo a phased facelift, beginning on the inside. The eight-court facility will achieve improved energy efficiency and performance upgrades, including new lighting, insulation, and court resurfacing. The second phase of work anticipates an enhanced entrance, exterior skin and further internal player and coach amenity spaces.

Theme 3: Living and Learning

Renewing the Vision

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Kings Court / English College House

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As part of Penn’s commitment to its existing College Houses, reinvestment in Kings Court / English House includes new insulated windows, and upgraded interior finishes in bedrooms and common areas.

Hill College House As the architecturally significant late-Modernist neighbor to the proposed New College House, Hill College House is planned to receive a full renovation for its 500 students and faculty in residence. Renovations will also include its signature skylit atrium and dining facility. All building systems will be replaced and enhanced with air conditioning, insulated replacement windows, and all interior finishes and furniture will be upgraded – extending the life of this revered student residence for another 50 years.

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PROPOSED View of the New College House and its sloping lawn

Penn Connects living and learning experiences with a focus on undergraduate student life, enhanced by a new college house residence, study centers, campus life, sports and recreation facilities. EXISTING View of the New College House site

Theme 3: Living and Learning

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campus and community Penn Connects 2.0 includes multiple open space projects that advance local engagement and ensure that Penn is more meaningfully connected to the surrounding community and improves the public realm of the campus and surrounding urban context. They will enhance the campus pedestrian experience and open space identity, physically connecting to the City beyond.

New Construction Penn Park

Shoemaker Green

Standing as a shining example of Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s commitment to engagement with the local community, and a hallmark of sustainable design, Penn Park is the centerpiece of Penn Connects. This project transforms 24 acres of neglected land along the Schuylkill River into an urban oasis. It dramatically opens and connects the Penn campus with University City and the greater Philadelphia region. Welcoming public walkways, casual picnic spaces, athletic fields teeming with life, and spectacular views of Center Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all await visitors to Penn Park.

Nestled between Franklin Field, the Palestra, and the David Rittenhouse Labs, Shoemaker Green will become a new public commons, a welcoming open space of lawn, tree-lined walkways, and sitting areas for the entire University community. The Green will also serve as a verdant pedestrian gateway connecting Locust and Smith Walks eastward from the core of campus to Penn Park. Its multi-functional scale will offer an intimate place for a casual weekday lunch, a frisbee toss, or quiet reading and study. On Family Day, Homecoming, or Alumni Weekend, the Green will come alive with another kind of energy: accommodating tented special events and celebrations like Commencement, Quaker football, and the Penn Relays.

Theme 4: Campus and Community

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Spruce Street Plaza Spruce Street Plaza will create a popular new open space at this important University gateway intersection bounded by 33rd, 34th and Spruce Streets. The site currently accommodates surface parking and food cart vendors. The vendors will be relocated to the adjacent fresh air food plaza at 33rd and Spruce Streets. A new mid-block crossing will be installed to provide improved pedestrian safety between the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Tower and the University City SEPTA Station.

Renovation Locust Walk Restoration

Class of ’49 / Generational Bridge Locust Walk defines the pedestrian experience at the heart of Penn’s urban campus. Conceived in the late ‘50s as a vehicular-free pedestrian spine, the 3600 block of Locust Walk has been extended over time westward to 40th Street. The core block was completely restored including paving, utility and electric upgrades, street furniture, and landscaping. The concrete paved blocks in Hamilton Village between 38th and 40th Streets were completely renovated to match the historic core.

As Locust Walk rises over the busy 38th Street artery, the campus community is greeted by a gateway celebrating the 125 year history of women at Penn and a mosaic of plaques that commemorate the many multi-generational family experiences at the University. The paving, lighting, donor plaques and landscape amenity that constitute this commemorative display will be repaired and rejuvenated.

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38th Street Streetscape

Walnut Street Streetscape Walnut Street links the campus with Center City and serves as a heavily traversed pedestrian, bicycle and vehicular gateway to University City. East of 32nd Street, this route is an elevated bridge structure. The eastern portion, from 23rd Street to 30th Street, will be improved by the City of Philadelphia by removing one travel lane and widening each sidewalk with granite paved bands and new lighting. The University plans to extend this streetscape improvement vocabulary from 30th Street to 33rd Street, adding trees and campus standard amenities west of 32nd Street.

3600 Woodland Walk Woodland Walk courses through the Penn campus grid as a diagonal link from 39th Street to 33rd Street and continues eastward connecting pedestrians to 30th Street Station. The 3600 block, running along the south side of Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall, remains the last stretch of this pathway within the campus needing rehabilitation. The project will remove accessibility barriers, address building service conflicts and create a more direct alignment.

Theme 4: Campus and Community

Street trees planted in a permeable curbside trench, stone fines and granite cobbles, concrete patterned sidewalks, pedestrianscaled street lighting and durable site furnishings; this palette of streetscape improvements, used throughout campus to unify Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s urban character, will be employed along 38th Street from Spruce Street north to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center.

34th Street Streetscape 34th Street is a busy pedestrian and vehicular thoroughfare through campus. Thousands of students cross mid-block daily between Locust and Smith Walks. Academic building entrances front the street encouraging access on both sides. Commuters heading to and from transit portals on Market Street travel north and south each day to reach the Penn Medicine precinct. Vendors, deliveries and Facilities services all jockey for convenient parking lay-by needs. This project will seek to balance these multimodal circulation needs and implement Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lighting, paving and streetscape furniture standards.

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Aerial View showing Shoemaker Green linked to Penn Park and Connections to Center City at walnut and south streets

Penn Connects enhances local engagement and meaningful connections to the surrounding community, enlivening the civic realm of the campus and the surrounding urban context.

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past and future

Penn Connects 2.0 includes a number of new projects, the Walnut Street Gateway, and campus expansion sites, including Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s South Bank that along with policies and guidelines will reinforce sustainability initiatives at the University.

New Construction Cira Walnut Mixed-Use Redevelopment At the Walnut Street Gateway to campus, visitors will be greeted by a gleaming mixed-use tower, wrapped with retail at the lower floors animating the pedestrian experience and supported by parking and residential uses on the northern end of the parcel. Cira Walnut will be built on Penn-owned land by our development partner, Brandywine Realty Corporation.

Theme 5: Past and Future

Renewing the Vision

Module 7 Chiller Plant Expansion

An expanding campus needs to be served by equally expanding utility services. The Module 7 Chiller Plant at the campus southern gateway near the University Avenue Bridge was envisioned to accommodate campus growth. Within its distinctive stainless oval mesh, Mod 7 will expand to full capacity, producing ice at off-peak electrical demand hours to meet the increasing needs of the campus chilled water loop.

34th and Chestnut Streets Mixed-Use Development

Fronting along the 3300 block of Chestnut, a new mixed-use development will be built with ground level retail. This development will complete the vision established with the adjacent parking garage and further add to Chestnut Street’s emerging urban life including Domus, the new College House and neighboring mixed-use projects.

Penn’s South Bank Redevelopment The acquisition of 23 acres of land just south of the University Avenue Bridge—the former DuPont Marshall Labs site—has yielded an important area to accommodate campus growth as well free up valuable core space. Penn’s South Bank will support a dynamic campus environment that drives technology-led economic development, fosters broad-based collaboration with Penn’s leading researchers, supports business innovation, and promotes the development, transfer, and commercialization of cuttingedge research.

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Aerial View of proposed penn’s south bank SITE looking toward the Penn Campus

Penn’s South Bank will support a dynamic campus environment that drives technology-led economic development, fosters broad-based collaboration with Penn’s leading researchers, supports business innovation and promotes the development, transfer, and commercialization of cutting-edge research. Aerial View of the existing conditions of penn’s south bank

Theme 5: Past and Future

Renewing the Vision

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19 18

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36 27

34 44

24 30

25 48

34 43 34 46

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14 13

33 9

31 11 12

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PHASE 2 (2011-2015) This composite view of Phase 2 illustrates the collective projects outlined by the previous five themes. They include a number of new construction, renovation, streetscape and open space projects identified as part of the Making History campaign for each School and Center at Penn. They also include renovation projects exceeding $5 million as identified in the five year capital plan process. The following summarizes the Phase 2 projects. (Projects illustrated are listed NW to SE.)

New Construction

26. Evans Building clinics 27. 1920 Commons Renovation

1. PENN PRESBYTERIAN hospital EXPANSION

28. Steinberg Conference Center

2. R ESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT AT 3939 AND 4001 CHESTNUT

29. Vance Hall Renovation

3. 34TH AND CHESTNUT MIXED USE

30. education Commons

4. GOLKIN HALL

31. Ryan Hospital Renovation

5. NEW COLLEGE HOUSE AT HILL SQUARE

32. Richards medical labs

6. K RISHNA P. SINGH CENTER FOR NANOTECHNOLOGY

33. Fagin Hall phase 5

7. CIRA SOUTH WALNUT MIXED USE

35. Museum West Wing Phase 2

8. S TEINBERG HALL - DIETRICH HALL WEST A DDITION

36. 3803 Locust

34. Medical Education Facility

9. BARKER TRANSPLANT HOUSE

Streetscape/Open Space

10. 40TH AND PINE RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT

37. Walnut Bridge Streetscape (30th to 23rd Street)

11. NEURAL-BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES 12. PA HALL site REDEVELOPMENT

38. Walnut Bridge Streetscape (33rd to 30th Street)

13. TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER 14. PCAM SOUTH PAVILION

39. Locust Walk Restoration (3600, 3800-3900 blockS)

15. MOD 7 CHILLER EXPANSION 16. DATA CENTER

40. Class of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;49 / Generational Bridge Renovation

Renovation

41. 38th Street Streetscape 42. 3600 Woodland Walk

17. Sansom East and West

43. 34th Street Streetscape

18. Kings Court and English House

44. Shoemaker Green

19. Silverman Hall

45. Penn Park

20. Hill College House

46. Spruce Street Plaza

21. the ARCH

47. RECREATION Field

22. V an Pelt Library Special Collections Center

48. INTERIM LANDSCAPE at ringe south

23. Meyerson Hall phase 1 24. Hutchinson gymnasium Infill and Renovation 25. Levy Tennis Pavilion

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New Construction

Renewing the Vision

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32ND ST

33RD ST

34TH ST

36TH ST

38TH ST

39TH ST

40TH ST

PENN MEDICINE EXPANSION

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NEW COLLEGE HOUSE AND APARTMENTS CHESTNUT ST

HOUSING HAMILTON VILLAGE WALNUT GATEWAY

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SPRUCE ST

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PINE ST

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KEY PLAN: AREAS OF STUDY

2.0 areas of study Penn Connects 2.0 provides design recommendations for a number of detailed areas of study within the overall framework of the plan. The recommendations are coordinated with known and future programmatic needs for Penn Medicine, housing and significant redevelopment sites.

5. Development of Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s South Bank at 3401 Grays Ferry Avenue addresses the long-term needs of the University as well as opportunities for third party commercial tech transfer investment.

The areas of study addressed in Penn Connects 2.0 include five sub-areas, each bridging phases 2 and 3 of this renewed campus vision. 1. Penn Medicineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Emerging Growth needs are met by infill development / redevelopment in the established medical area of the campus along Civic Center Boulevard, at Penn Presbyterian, as well as future long-term expansion along River Fields Drive. 2. Housing Opportunities include the New College House at 34th and Chestnut streets, third party student apartments at Cira South, 3939 and 4001 Chestnut streets, 40th and Pine streets, and university-owned infill college house options at Hamilton Village. 3. Walnut Gateway Development incorporates opportunities adjacent to Penn Park and to the north at Cira Walnut. 4. 38th & Spruce Streets Redevlopment of the existing Garage 14 site is explored to examine future capacity at this important core campus site.

Areas of Study

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1. PSOM TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER 2. PCAM SOUTH PAVILION

3. PENN TOWER REPLACEMENT 4. PA HALL SITE REDEVELOPMENT 5. MEDICAL DEVELOPMENT EXPANSION 6. PENN PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL EXPANSION

40 Penn Connects 2.0 VIEW OF POTENTIAL EXPANSION OF PENN MEDICINE

EXISTING BUILDING

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penn medicine EXPansion Expansion plans for Penn Medicine include new development on the former PA Hall Site and the South Pavilion Expansion at the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine (PCAM). The expansion of Presbyterian Hospital is proposed for clinical and ambulatory uses. In Phase 3, expansion includes the redevelopment of the Penn Tower site and completion of the PCAM South Tower. The extension of Hamilton Walk through the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) is included in Phase 3 to provide better east / west connectivity. Over the longer-term, expansion is planned to the east of the Highline into the River Fields area of the campus.

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Pedestrian connectivity between PCAM and the potential expansion zone at River Fields is planned via a new pedestrian bridge over the SEPTA and Amtrak lines and under the Highline. This new bridge will serve as a continuation of a broader circulation concept envisioned to extend Hamilton Walk to the east through the existing HUP. The extension of Hamilton Walk will be possible following the completion of a new bed tower on the site of the existing Penn Tower, which will include a bridge connection over Civic Center Boulevard. A new medical office and clinical tower is planned above the South Pavilion Expansion to PCAM. The development configuration in the River Fields expansion zone includes a podium deck to accommodate parking. The deck will support a series of medical towers facing the Schuylkill River. Rhodes Field is maintained in the plan, but is relocated slightly in order to accommodate the proposed indoor track facility south of Hollenback Center.

EXTENSION OF HAMILTON WALK

stemmler hall silverstein pavilion

SECTION looking north at HAMILTON WALK and through The hospital of the university of pennsylvania

Areas of Study

30th St

32nd St

33rd St

34th St

36th St

38th St

39th St

40th St Market St

3 14

13 Chestnut St

15 9

6 12

Walnut St

18 Locust St

Spruce St

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Existing Housing

Existing Housing identified for Renovation

1. THE HUB * 2. Axis 3. Domus * 4. Chestnut Hall * 5. Radian * 6. Left Bank * 7. Hamilton Village 8. Stouffer 9. Kings court / english house 10. The Quadrangle

11. Sansom East & West 12. hill college house

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Proposed New Housing 13. 3939 and 4001 Chestnut * 14. 34th and Chestnut * 15. New College House at hill square 16. CIRA South * 17. potential infill College Houses 18. Walnut Gateway * 19. 40th and Pine *

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housing opportunities Penn Housing Penn Connects 2.0 addresses student housing needs by reinvestment in existing residential facilities, reserving sites for future University owned and operated housing, and identifying sites for new third party developments. It also reaffirms the vision for the creation of a New College House on the site of Hill Square at 34th and Chestnut streets.

Existing College Houses W.E.B Du Bois

169

Fisher Hassenfeld

461

Gregory / Van Pelt Manor

175

Gregory / Class of 1925

Proposed Renovation of Penn College Housing To ensure that current housing remains competitive in the market, several existing facilities are targeted for renovation over the coming years, including Hill House and the Sansom East and West Towers. These significant renovations address the housing needs of both undergraduate and graduate students respectively.

Third Party Housing University students currently choose to reside in a variety of recently completed third party owned and operated facilities, including Domus, Radian and the HUB. These modern apartment buildings enhance and widen the range of housing options available to Penn students. Other third party facilities include the Left Bank and Chestnut Hall as well as housing units completed through the Neighborhood Preservation Development Fund (N.P.D.F.). A total of 500 off-campus units have been acquired via the N.P.D.F. Proposed third party facilities include new apartment developments at 40th and Pine streets, and at 40th and Chestnut streets.

Future Housing Penn Connects 2.0 identifies sites for several residential facilities, including a new College House on Hill Square, and potential new private sector developments at 34th and Chestnut streets, Cira South, the Walnut Street Gateway, and 3939/4001 Chestnut streets. The Hamilton Village area presents an opportunity for infill mid-rise college house development and the potential redevelopment of some existing residences in the Penn housing portfolio.

Number of Beds

HarNwell

772

Harrison

797

Hill

518

Kings Court English / English

160

Kings Court English / Kings Court

192

Riepe

464

Rodin

790

Stouffer / Mayer Hall

171

Stouffer / Stouffer Hall

130

Ware

574

SaNsom Place West

552

SaNsom Place East Total

potential new Buildings

533 6545

Number of Beds

NEW COLLEGE HOUSE

350

3939-3941 CHESTNUT

HAMILTON VILLAGE

950

4001-4003 CHESTNUT

100

40TH & PINE

125

34TH & CHESTNUT

300

CIRA south

300

WALNUT GATEWAY (MIXED USE)

500

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2700

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350

New College House

New College House Located on Hill Square, defined by Chestnut, Walnut, 33rd and 34th Streets, the proposed College House is envisioned as a significant new facility in Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s College House Program. The design will respond to the urban conditions of the context and define the major street edges as well as the need to ensure that Woodland Walk remains accessible through the site. The proposed building is located along the Chestnut and 34th Street edges to define a new quadrangle at the center of the block. The project respects the 2003 text-based sculpture along Woodland Walk titled 125 Years by Jenny Holzer.

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existing building

renovation

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Cira chestnut walnut street gateway

500

Housing at Walnut Gateway

300

existing building

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Walnut Street Gateway

Cira Chestnut

The Walnut Street mixed-use development site, located on the south side of Walnut directly adjacent to Penn Park, is a key development parcel for the University. Although the range and mix of uses is yet to be determined, it is anticipated that housing will be an important component. Within the development mix of retail, office and possibly executive education, 500 residential units are envisioned.

Located at 30th and Chestnut streets, Cira Chestnut is proposed for a residential tower to be developed by a third party. The site and parameters for development are governed by Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s agreement with Brandywine Realty Trust, the Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s development partner for Cira South and the restoration and rehabilitation of the landmark US Post Office on Market Street for the new regional IRS headquarters.

Areas of Study

4001 chestnut

100

3939 chestnut

40th and pine

120

Housing - Residential Development at 3939 and 4001 chestnut

Residential Development: 3939 and 4001 Chestnut Street, and 40th and Pine Streets Located at the intersection of 40th and Chestnut streets, 3939 and 4001 Chestnut streets are envisioned as complements to HUB at 3945 Chestnut Street. These sites are reserved for future third party development by private developers and could accommodate up to 175 beds. Both facilities will contribute to the urban quality of the Chestnut and 40th Street corridors. A new third party development is proposed at the intersection of 40th and Pine streets to accommodate 120 beds in studios and in one and two bedroom apartments, marketed toward graduate and professional students. 46

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existing building

renovation

new construction

200

190 240

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existing building

renovation

new construction

Hamilton Village College Houses / Infill Additional residential infill development is possible in the Hamilton Village area to accommodate new college houses, if this need is identifed in the long-term. Based on preliminary studies, a net of approximately 630 additional beds is possible on the infill sites shown above. Redevelopment in this area is intended to enhance the campus while contributing to the urban context along 40th, Spruce and Walnut Streets. The existing Plateau sculpture by Andrea Blum would need to be relocated in coordination with the artist to acommodate the proposed units facing 40th Street. Gregory College House would need to be further evaluated to determine the viability of renovating or replacing the existing buildings.

Areas of Study

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1. WALNUT MIXED USE 2. CIRA SOUTH WALNUT MIXED USE 3 CIRA SOUTH CHESTNUT MIXED USE 4. ICE RINK REDEVELOPMENT

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VIEW OF PROPOSED WALNUT GATEWAY

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2.3

walnut gateway Significant mixed-use redevelopment opportunities continue to be proposed on the north and south side of Walnut Street adjacent to Penn Park. This development is envisioned as a gateway to campus that may include office, hotel, residential, retail, and, possibly, executive education facilities. Preliminary design concepts suggest a podium rising to the Walnut Street Bridge, with parking on the floors below street level. Design of the podium will require careful consideration relative to the scale and character of the adjacent Penn Park. Development above the podium will include towers, the size and scale of which will be determined by the uses to be accommodated. Given the importance of the site in terms of connectivity to Center City, the mixedâ&#x20AC;&#x2018;use development will include retail and commercial activities at the Walnut Street level to ensure that a dynamic and active gateway emerges. It is also suggested that a cultural or other public function be considered for the east edge of the site to further contribute to the gateway aspect of the site. Cira South Walnut is also proposed and will include mixed-use office and retail and possible executive education. Cira South Chestnut will likely be developed for residential uses (apartments or hotel). The Class of 1923 Ice Rink will likely be redeveloped to accommodate mixed-use offices / retail with consideration for future ice rink needs to be incorporated.

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RENOVATION

NEW CONSTRUCTION

2.4

38th & spruce streets Redevelopment Located at the intersection of 38th and Spruce Streets, Garage 14 is identified as a future redevelopment site. This pivotal site offers many opportunities to support the core academic, research and lifelong learning needs of the Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;higher and better uses than the parking garage located on the site. Preliminary studies suggest that up to 1.3 million square feet could be accommodated on the site. The corner location of the site presents an opportunity to consider a tower at this gateway crossroads of the campus. Any replacement of the existing garage will consider the relocation of some percentage of the existing parking tenants on the site and elsewhere on campus in accordance with the campus Special Institutional District (SP-INS) zoning requirements. While specific uses and program needs are undetermined, Garage 14 represents a significant development site for future needs. Several planning and design parameters are important when considering the future buildings. They will need to incorporate and complement the adjacent 1920 Dining Commons and will need to provide an active and lively edge along 38th Street. It will also be important to maintain service access to the 1920 Dining Commons on the west side of the site. The height and massing relationships relative to the Steinberg Conference Center, Mayer Hall, and especially Locust Walk are also important considerations.

Areas of Study

Aerial View of pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s south bank looking southeast over the university avenue bridge

Aerial View of existing site

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2.5

penn’s south bank Penn’s South Bank is located south of the Schuylkill River at the intersection of 34th Street and Grays Ferry Avenue. This 23 acre former heavy industrial site offers the opportunity to accommodate a variety of uses that support the academic and research mission of both University clients and third party commercial tenants. The proposed plan for Penn’s South Bank provides a long-term view of redevelopment with the understanding that incremental change and evolution will be necessary as the site is transformed. The plan, therefore, is designed to provide a flexible framework of circulation and open space that will organize both existing and future development. Penn’s South Bank anticipates aligning University-related research functions with private commercial enterprises seeking to operate in close proximity to the University and its neighboring institutions. The low density of this site is well suited to emerging research and tech-transfer development opportunities that may be physically impractical to construct in the core areas of University City, but would benefit from close proximity to University initiatives and for-profit companies. Penn’s success in fostering the growth of new companies through technology licensing and through partnerships with Penn and neighboring institutions will benefit from this fertile environment for entrepreneurial growth. Penn’s South Bank will allow development that is complementary to the University City Science Center and yet differ in its focus on light industrial, flex-use, and buildings scaled to fit the need for practical commercialization and business opportunities in the region. Short term opportunities for back-of-house support functions such as transportation services and warehousing are underway, while an information technology data center is in design. These practical functions will merge with new ventures as the site is developed and leased to innovative companies seeking the integration of cutting edge tech-transfer with the University’s leading researchers.

Planning and Design Principles Redevelopment of Penn’s South Bank will be informed by the following principles: ›› C reate a site framework to accommodate phased development of tech transfer, labs, flex-use, multi-use, offices, warehouse and open space.

›› L everage existing infrastructure and build additional infrastructure incrementally to minimize cost per phase. ›› R eserve parcels with riverfront views for future priority development, with a flexible range of uses and parking on the interior of the site and warehousing/flex use facilities at the western edge. The vision for Penn’s South Bank will emerge over time in response to practical needs and opportunities. The short term strategy will utilize the site for University support functions. With that understanding, the plan is organized to accommodate support functions in the early stages without precluding opportunities to redevelop the site for higher and better purposes. While specific uses will be identified over time, the site is not appropriate for core academic functions or housing.

Existing Conditions The context surrounding Penn’s South Bank site is industrial in character. The site itself contains a number of industrial buildings utilized for DuPont research activities that were conducted on the site until 2010. These buildings range from wide-span warehouse facilities to an advanced research laboratory. Four buildings are deemed to be appropriate for continued use; the remainder are identified for demolition as the land is needed for redevelopment purposes. These buildings will be utilized for the foreseeable future and demolished as demand, or programmatic need, arises. The site contains several acres of surface parking, and other paved areas that supported industrial activities. It is surrounded by a band of open space on the 34th Street edge and the Grays Ferry Crescent greenway along the riverfront. The land along the riverfront is part of the Schuylkill River Banks trail system, and has been the subject of public / private partnership investment. Planned circulation improvements eventually will connect this park land to the trails to the east and south of the site. Improved connections between the site and the Penn Campus are possible via the University Avenue Bridge, and the 34th Street and University Avenue corridors. The development of Penn’s South Bank is being considered within the broader context of the Lower Schuylkill redevlopment study underway by the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation. PIDC seeks to repurpose former industrial sites from South Bank leading to the Navy Yard and Philadelphia International Airport.

›› E stablish a system of streets, blocks, and open spaces that optimize development potential and create a vibrant pedestrian environment.

Areas of Study

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Land Uses Although the plan is flexible, a land use structure is proposed to guide the placement of the uses that may evolve. Specifically, office and research facility uses are proposed on the 34th Street edge and along the riverfront sites, which will offer views of the river and the Penn campus. The center of the site is designated for flexible uses, including support functions. Other uses include research facilities, a parking garage and support functions. Warehousing and prototype manufacturing facilities are proposed on the west side of the site. The site is marginally impacted by the 100 year and 500 year floodplain designation. Proposed development parcels may need to respond to this constraint with closer study of ground floor elevations and occupancy.

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WMI Site (non-Penn)

Grays Ferry Avenue Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s south bank: Framework Plan

Framework Plan The framework plan for Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s South Bank is organized by a grid pattern of circulation and open space linking the site to surrounding roads and to the riverfront park and trail system. The framework also includes a park at the gateway to establish a sense of place and provide a more memorable entry and arrival point. A riverfront park is proposed directly adjacent to the University Avenue Bridge. Other open spaces are defined by the proposed buildings. The purpose of the framework plan is to illustrate one potential development outcome for transforming the site over the long-term. While the framework provides for flexibility in building use, the proposed circulation and open space pattern organizes future development on the site. The total development potential, as illustrated, assumes two-to-three story development and is in the range of 560,000 gross square feet. The proposed building footprints are dimensioned to accommodate a range of office and research uses as well as single story, large span warehousing.

Areas of Study

1.4 acres

1.2 acres

0.9 acres 0.8 acres

0.5 acres

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1.0 acre

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1.1 acres

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1.8 acres

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PARCEL

EXISTING BUILDING

Parcel Plan The parcel plan is designed around the four existing buildings that are likely to remain for the foreseeable future and is set up to offer views through the site to the river park system. It illustrates the size and configuration of future development parcels within the site. A total of 10 developable acres are identified in the plan, after taking into account the road network, proposed open spaces and existing building footprints. The parcel plan supports the flexibility objectives for the site, enabling a variety of uses to be accommodated in an organized manner that can be phased over time in response to specific needs and opportunities.

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Total Site Area : 23.1 acres Net Developable : 12.0 acres

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55,000 sf

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90,000 sf

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number of floors

parking structure

Circulation Framework As noted, the grid pattern of streets is intended to organize pedestrian, bicycle and vehicular movement within Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s South Bank site. The pedestrian system is designed to link to the adjacent and emerging regional riverfront trail system and to the University Avenue Bridge. Pedestrian connections back to the campus along 34th Street and the University Avenue Bridge are proposed; however, safety and the physical conditions of the sidewalks must be addressed in consultation with the City. All streets within the site are intended to accommodate bike lanes and provide connections to the riverfront and other networks proposed beyond the site.

SURFACE PARKING: 250 SPACES STRUCTURED PARKING: 570 SPACES TOTAL GSF (EXCLUDING PARKING STRUCTURE): 560,000 SF

Improved bike connections and bike parking facilities should also be provided along with bus shelters amenities to enhance a balanced approach to multi-modal access. Connectivity to the Penn campus could be provided by shuttle while pedestrian and bicycle network improvements are completed.

Parking and Development Capacity The framework plan illustrates the potential of providing up to approximately 820 parking spaces in a combination of surface lots and a garage located along Grays Ferry Avenue. Based on the development density illustrated in the framework plan, this equates to approximately 1.5 spaces per 1,000 sf of space. Depending on the future uses and the vision for the site, the parking ratio may need to be adjusted to accommodate more intensive development and provide the amount of parking required to market the site. Areas of Study

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sports field

hardscape

3.0 civic framework Penn Connects (2006) reinforces the well-established open space framework of the campus broadly defined by Locust Walk, Woodland Walk and College Green, and introduced a vision for Penn Park. With the completion of Penn Park, a key aspect of the proposed civic framework has now been realized. Penn Connects 2.0 enhances this framework with new open spaces including Shoemaker Green and Spruce Street Plaza. Looking ahead to Phase 3, Penn Connects calls for the extension of Hamilton Walk and streetscape improvements on the 34th, 36th, 38th and 40th Street corridors. The intent is to create a coordinated and unified system of open space and circulation within the Penn campus and the surrounding context. Penn Connects 2.0 extends open space connections beyond the campus to link with regional improvements including the Schuylkill River Trail, the South Bank Crescent and the boardwalk between Locust and South Streets. The proposed civic framework also addresses sustainability in a more meaningful, deliberate and coordinated manner. Specifically, the open space system and landscape structure of the campus are viewed as functional elements in a “green” infrastructure system closely tied to stormwater management and climate responsive design strategies. Penn Connects 2.0 and Penn’s Stormwater Management plan are coordinated to support the objectives of the Philadelphia Water Department’s 2009 plan, Green City, Clean Waters—a plan to alleviate combined sewer overflow

pollution, as well as the City’s Greenworks plan. The campus landscape is viewed as a functional element in the stormwater management strategy incorporating, as appropriate, techniques such as bioswales, rain gardens and green roofs as ways to decrease the rate of runoff into the combined sewer system of the City. These strategies are also intended to address water quality and encourage infiltration into the water table. The campus tree canopy is viewed as an opportunity to provide a comprehensive shade strategy for the campus. The intent is to improve human comfort in the warmest months and to decrease the heat island effect by shading paved surfaces. The civic framework is also informed by several previous and ongoing studies for the campus and the surrounding context including: Penn’s Climate Action Plan, the Multi-modal Circulation Study, the 40th Street Corridor Study, Erase the Boundaries: Design Ideas for Greater Philadelphia, An Industrial and Land Market Strategy for Greater Philadelphia (prepared for the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation), and the Philadelphia 2035 Plan which establishes an ambitious vision for how the city will strengthen three themes— thrive, connect, and renew—to make the city and the region strong and sustainable. The PIDC’s ongoing Lower Schuylkill Redevelopment Study will also inform the redevelopment strategy for Penn’s South Bank site.

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Penn Connects 2.0 - Bridges of connectivity

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3.1

connectivity Comprehensive Connectivity

University Avenue Connection

Penn Connects 2.0 reinforces connectivity on several levels: 1) external connections to Center City—the “Bridges of Connectivity” concept; 2) internal connections; 3) connections to communities to the west, north and south; and, 4) connections to transit services.

The University Avenue Bridge is incorporated as a “Bridge of Connectivity” to Penn’s South Bank at the Grays Ferry site. Enhancements to this historic bridge by City and State agencies, and the streetscapes to the north are envisioned to improve the pedestrian experience and safety of cyclists.

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Bridges of Connectivity The Bridges of Connectivity concept, linking Penn to Center City, is updated in Penn Connects 2.0 to reflect new opportunities. Two points influence the revised approach: ›› T he redevlopment of Penn’s South Bank emphasizes the need to include the University Avenue Bridge in the plan as a means of physical and programmatic connectivity. ›› T he completion of Penn Park, and the reconstructed South Street Bridge, informs a revised vision of the proposed pedestrian bridge over the Schuylkill River. Penn Connects 2.0 proposes instead to reinforce the quality of the pedestrian experience along Walnut Street and South Street to enhance east / west connectivity over the Schuylkill River. Penn Connects 2.0 identifies the following themes for the Bridges of Connectivity based on land use, urban design and programmatic opportunities.

Walnut Street Connection Walnut Street is envisioned as the primary gateway between Center City and the core of the Penn Campus. Enhanced streetscape improvements are outlined from 23rd to 33rd Streets. The urban design recommendations reflect the completion of Penn Park and the continued desire to realize mixed-use development along the north and south sides of Walnut Street. Future redevelopment and infill development is envisioned to enhance the overall quality of the streetscape.

South Street Connection The reconstructed South Street Bridge is another gateway to the campus providing linkages from the Fitler Square area to Penn Park and the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Franklin Field and the Health System precinct. Open space improvements at Spruce Street Plaza will reinforce this connection.

Proposed housing investment will reinforce the University’s presence along Chestnut Street, notably between 33rd and 34th Streets. This important campus edge is also bisected by the Woodland Walk diagonal pathway to and from 30th Street Station. The vision will encourage additional streetscape improvements in partnership with other stakeholders.

Pedestrian Connectivity The Bridges of Connectivity are reinforced in Penn Connects 2.0 by continuing improvements to the major pedestrian routes of the campus and streetscapes of the West Philadelphia grid, as illustrated on the map provided at left. In Penn Connects 2.0, landscape is a functional element addressing a broad range of sustainability outcomes. The landscape is intended to contribute to the stormwater management strategy for the campus, incorporating, as appropriate, bioswales, rain gardens and green roofs as ways to decrease the rate of runoff into the combined sewer system of the City. These strategies are also intended to address water quality and encourage infiltration into the water table. Penn’s extensive “urban park” provides shade on pedestrian routes across the campus. Gaps in the canopy will be strategically filled in with the intent of improving human comfort in the warmest months and decreasing the heat island effect by shading paved surfaces.

Penn Park North / South connectivity between Walnut and South Street, and the athletic facilities below South Street is made possible by the completion of the new pathways and bridges in Penn Park. Extending these paths to the north provides better linkages to 30th Street Station and to the south athletic facilities along River Fields Drive.

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Shoemaker Green The design for Shoemaker Green, designed as a foreground to the Palestra, is a Sustainable Sites Initiative pilot project. This new public park creates a welcoming gathering space in this eastern precinct and forms a pivotal link in the continuation of Locust Walk and Smith Walk. The Paley Bridge provides access over the SEPTA rail line linking into Penn Park.

Spruce Street Plaza Spruce Street Plaza, a triangular site defined by 33rd, 34th and Spruce Streets, is re-imagined as a new urban plaza. The new open space will provide a green respite for the health care and museum precinct and an enhanced setting at this busy and prominent intersection.

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along Franklin Field to provide a link to Penn Park via Paley Bridge. Improvements also are proposed to the Class of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;49 / Generational Bridge, which serves as the continuation of Locust Walk over 38th Street.

Hamilton Walk Renovation and upgrades in Phase 2 bring this pedestrian walk up to the same standard as Locust Walk. In Phase 3, once Penn Medicineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new bed tower is completed on the Penn Tower site, Hamilton Walk will be extended east through the Hospital complex linking the Perelman School of Medicine with Penn Medicine facilities east of 33rd Street and with the SEPTA University City Station.

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sustainability Penn Connects 2.0 reinforces the University’s sustainability objectives as outlined in the 2009 Climate Action Plan and aligns with the City of Philadelphia’s Greenworks broader goals for the region. It acknowledges several initiatives underway at the University, including annual reinvestment in existing buildings and infrastructure via the Facility Renewal Fund, a new campus-wide Stormwater Management Master Plan and the recently completed transportation plan, Campus Circulation: A Study of Multi-Modal Access. The Penn campus focus is merged with a broader range of sustainability objectives as outlined in the Philadelphia 2035 Plan, the first comprehensive plan for the city in over 50 years, and the Philadelphia Water Department’s Green City, Clean Water Report. Penn’s commitment to sustainability has steadily increased since the completion of the 2006 Penn Connects plan. During the intervening years, Penn formed the Green Campus Partnership, the Environmental Sustainability Advisory Committee and became a signatory to the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC). By signing the ACUPCC, Penn has pledged to reduce greenhouse emissions associated with its facilities and operations.

Penn’s Climate Action Plan Penn’s Climate Action Plan (CAP) responds to the requirements of the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment. Completed in 2009, the CAP is guided by the following goals: 1) Make climate change and sustainability part of the curriculum and educational experience for all students and the Penn community; 2) Reduce operating energy over the 2007 baseline by 17% by 2014; 3) Create and maintain a sustainable campus by: increasing green space, decreasing building energy consumption through design and renovations, improving the environmental quality of interior and exterior spaces, increasing education and awareness of sustainable design; 4) Leverage the extensive network of subway, bus, trolley, regional rail, car-sharing, and bike systems to reduce single-occupant auto use to less than 50% of commuters, while investing in a quality pedestrian campus environment; 5) Increase Penn’s diversion rate of traditional recyclables from 20% to 40%; 6) Create a campaign which communicates clear, concise, and accurate information to inform and educate the Penn community and key stakeholders about the Climate Action Plan; and 7) Build a culture of sustainability at Penn by engaging students, faculty, staff and their respective Schools and Centers. A 2011 Progress Report was submitted to ACUPCC, highlighting the University’s progress toward meeting its sustainability goals. Penn has identified the year 2042 as an aspirational goal for achieving climate neutrality. The link to this report can be found at: http://www.upenn.edu/sustainability/cap.html.

Facility Investment and Renewal Facility renewal and reinvestment is a major focus of Penn’s sustainability initiatives. Campus buildings represent a considerable capital, operational and deferred maintenance concern for the University. They also represent significant concentrations of embodied energy, that is, the energy associated with extracting, processing, delivering and assembling the materials that make up the buildings. Furthermore, many represent cultural resources that are important to the history, traditions and culture of Penn. For these reasons and others, the major renovation and deferred maintenance projects planned over the coming decade are designed to contribute toward the broader sustainability goals of the University. The recently announced $300M Century Bond program will commit a significant source of revenue to accomplish priority facility renewal projects with noteworthy energy payback. By focusing on building upgrades, several goals can be achieved: energy consumption and emissions can be reduced; the cultural significance of campus buildings can be acknowledged; and the embodied energy of existing buildings can be put to continued use, while balancing demolition and new construction projects. This focus enables the University to improve the overall performance of the buildings while updating the facilities to better support its academic and research mission.

Campus Circulation: A Study of Multi-Modal Access Penn Connects 2.0 supports an integrated approach to transportation, coordinating improvements to the pedestrian, bicycle, transit and vehicular circulation routes within the campus and in the surrounding context. More broadly, it defines these improvements as mobility, accurately expressing a comprehensive and integrated strategy for movement and personal transportation choices. The overall goal is to provide a balanced range of mobility options, with a goal of lessening auto-oriented dependence, thereby promoting a reduction in transportation related emissions.

Stormwater Management Planning The Philadelphia Water Department’s 2009 Plan, Green City, Clean Water, outlines an innovative $1.6 billion, 20 year investment in green infrastructure to alleviate combined sewer overflow pollution across the City. In accordance with this plan, Penn is cooperating with the City to reduce the rate of discharge from the campus during major storm events. To that end, Penn is developing a comprehensive Stormwater Management Master Plan for the entire campus, which will include an accounting of impermeable space as well as the open space and landscape structure of the campus. Specific best practices will be identified, including detention cisterns, bioswales, recycled rainwater for irrigation, rain gardens and green roofs across campus.

City Wide Initiatives The City of Philadelphia’s comprehensive plan establishes a proactive community context for sustainability with its Greenworks plan. The Philadelphia 2035 plan provides an ambitious vision for how the city will strengthen three themes—thrive, connect, and renew—to make the city and the region strong and sustainable. Philadelphia’s innovative thinking has built momentum and enthusiasm for remaking Philadelphia as a green, sustainable city. Overall, Penn’s increasingly outward focus, connecting with University City and the Center City, are aligned with those of Philadelphia’s planning leadership. Civic Framework

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multi-modal access plan Five mobility recommendations of Penn Connects 2.0 are informed by the 2009 Campus Circulation: A Study of Multi-Modal Access. 1) Determine transportation improvements to support development envisioned in Penn Connects; 2) Focus on pedestrian, bike and transit modes, moving toward a sustainable approach to campus development; 3) Shift about 15% of the trips to/from the University from drive-alone auto to another mode of transportation; 4) Improve safety for all modes; and 5) Identify and prioritize the actions that the University and others should take to implement the transportation plan.

Transit Connections In support of the Multi-Modal Access Plan goals, emphasis is placed on improving connections to transit serving the Penn campus. The Penn campus and University City are accessible via a number of transit lines, and regional rail and bus services. The pedestrian and bicycle networks of Penn Connects 2.0 are coordinated with the major rail stations as well as the bus routes. The intent is to enable convenient and logical transfer points between the various modes of movement. In support of transit connectivity, the shuttle, bus and SEPTA rail lines are mapped as an overlay to the campus plan. The network of trolley, train and bus lines clearly engage the entire campus, affording multiple opportunities for transit ridership to serve existing and new developments. It is recommended that future development continues to encourage transit connectivity and passenger safety, convenience and comfort by incorporating transit access points and sheltered waiting areas.

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Bicycle Connections Bicycle connections are enhanced in Penn Connects 2.0 as part of a comprehensive bike network that takes advantage of City bike lanes. The campus bike plan has the following strategic goals to promote safe bike travel in balance with other modes of travel: ›› I ncrease bike parking, adding bike corrals at gateway locations to the campus. These corrals provide safe monitored bike storage at specific locations. ›› Maintain the campus core for pedestrians, with bike facilities at the perimeter. ›› W ork with City and state partners to extend and complete designated bike lanes on City streets. Existing routes following the major streets surrounding the campus core, including Walnut, Spruce, 33rd, 34th and 40th Streets, provide access to most of the campus. Enhanced connections to the on-street bike lanes and the regional routes along the east side of the Schuylkill are proposed in the plan. Several new lanes and trails are recommended within the campus including: ›› D esignated bike lanes along Market Street and Chestnut Street to provide continuous east-west paths of travel. ›› T he designation of a bike lane along 32nd Street permitting a north/south circulation route from Market Street to South Street. ›› N ew bike lanes along University Avenue and the University Avenue Bridge to improve connectivity between the campus and Penn’s South Bank. ›› T he completion of continuous bike lanes along Civic Center Boulevard in the Medical District.

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Vehicular Connectivity Penn Connects 2.0 incorporates the street network improvement recommendations of the Multi-Modal Access Study. Specifically, it is recommended that the University collaborate with government stakeholders on improving traffic patterns along the 38th Street / University Avenue corridor. This corridor provides the primary means of access among the medical campus, the Penn campus and Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s South Bank. Improving traffic flow must be balanced with the needs of pedestrian, bicycle and transit connectivity.

Campus Gateways Campus Gateways are informally defined locations where the public senses their arrival at Penn as either pedestrians or commuters, within the broader context of University City. The plan identifies several new gateway opportunities, including those associated with the acquisition of Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s South Bank. Enhancements proposed include new streetscape, landscape and development projects. It is recommended that any improvements planned at the Gateways are designed to contribute to the sense of arrival to the Penn campus by incorporating the campus standard quality landscape and streetscape upgrades. Other Gateways that will be improved in Phase 2 include: Spruce Street Plaza, Civic Center Boulevard, Walnut Street, 34th Street and 38th Street.

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infill development Connectivity is reinforced in Penn Connects 2.0 by comprehensively planning new infill development and renovating existing facilities along the major corridors of University City. The proposed improvements are coordinated with development, landscape and open space projects to contribute to the overall quality of the circulation corridors and campus identity. These corridors are illustrated on the following pages in more detail: Walnut Street, South Street, Chestnut Street, Locust Walk, Hamilton Walk and University Avenue. The projects proposed along these corridors in Phase 2 and 3 of are also illustrated.

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Walnut Street This important corridor links Center City’s Rittenhouse Square to Penn and is the focus of continued investment in Penn Connects 2.0. The proposed mixed-use development at the Walnut Gateway, in combination with the Cira South mixed-use development, seamlessly links Center City and University City. Future redevelopment of the Walnut South parcel (currently a surface parking lot), the redevelopment of the Ice Rink and Lot 2 sites contribute to this vision. The Singh Center for Nanotechnology and the new High Bay research building further contribute to the transformation of Walnut as a “learning and research” corridor. Renovations to LRSM, Meyerson Hall, 76

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South / Spruce Street South Street, as it continues as Spruce Street, forms a cultural and recreational gateway to the Penn campus. The completion of Penn Park has created a positive arrival experience. The proposed Spruce Street Plaza defined by 33rd, 34th and Spruce Streets continues the gateway experience. Development opportunities include a new indoor track, renovations to the University Museum, Vance Hall, Veterinary and Dental Medicine facilities, the redevelopment of the Garage 14 site, the Barker Transplant House and new residences at Hamilton Village.

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Chestnut Street In Phase 1 of Penn Connects the major investments along Chestnut Street strengthened the Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presence. Recent projects include Domus, HUB and the repurposing by Brandywine Realty Trust of the former USPS building for the IRS. Proposed improvements offering significant opportunities to contribute to the character of Chestnut Street include: residential development at the 40th Street intersection; renovations at Sansom East and West, Kings Court and English House; renovations to Silverman Hall; a new College House at Hill Square; a new mixed-use development at 34th Street, and the Cira Chestnut Tower. 78

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Locust Walk Major new projects and renovations are envisioned for Locust Walk as enhancements to the central spine of Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campus. From 40th Street to Penn Park, major projects include: the potential for new residential investment in Hamilton Village, renovations to the 1920 Commons, the Social Science Quad and the ARCH. Connectivity between College Green and Penn Park is enhanced by Shoemaker Green, and landscape improvements linking it to the Paley Bridge.

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Hamilton Walk Hamilton Walk is a historic and valued east / west pedestrian campus connection. Planned improvement will enhance its character, making it commensurate with Locust Walk. Over the longer term, it is intended that Hamilton Walk be extended to the east to re-establish its historic east / west connection through the campus. Proposed internal reorganization of the Hospital will enable this connection to be improved and linked to the University City Station via a realigned Convention Avenue. The proposed bridge network will connect the Perelman School of Medicine facilities with the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, and an expansion of Penn Medicine patient facilities on the current Penn Tower site. Ultimately it may be extended to provide a connection to a proposed medical expansion zone along River Fields Drive.

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University Avenue The acquisition of 3401 Grays Ferry, and redevelopment as Penn’s South Bank, focuses attention on the University Avenue corridor. Proposed streetscape improvements to University Avenue and 38th street, to be completed in association with the City, facilitate safe pedestrian and bicycle travel. In Penn Connects 2.0 this route is reinforced to enhance the gateway to the campus and improve several adjacent development projects including: Penn’s South Bank redevelopment, the expansion of the Mod 7 Chiller Plant, the Neural Behavioral Sciences Building, Garage 14 redevelopment and the renovation of the 1920 Commons. The PA Hall site redevelopment, while not directly adjacent to University Avenue, contributes to the character of the corridor. Expansion of Penn Presbyterian Hospital will anchor the corridor to the north.

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4.0 Penn connects: phasing Penn Connects 2.0 builds upon the vision established in the 2006 plan and the significant accomplishments of Phase 1 that have transformed the Penn campus. Looking forward, it provides a renewed vision for the Penn campus during the periods 2011-2015 (Phase 2) and 2016-2030 (Phase 3). The new construction, renovation and open space initiatives of Phase 2 include University priority projects identified as part of the Making History Campaign for each school and center. Phase 2 includes significant renovation projects (+$5million) identified in the five year capital plan process. These projects, as described in Chapter 1, are organized around the five themes of Penn Connects 2.0: 1. Penn Connects Teaching and Scholarship 2. Penn Connects Research and Clinical Care 3. Penn Connects Living and Learning 4. Penn Connects Campus and Community 5. Penn Connects Past and Future Phase 3 addresses the longer-term development, redevelopment, renovation and open space improvement opportunities for the Penn campus.

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Penn has achieved tremendous success in Phase 1 of Penn Connects (2006-2010), with nearly all of the projects either complete, under construction, or in their design phase. These accomplishments have also succeeded in strengthening connections between University City and Center City.

1. the hub * 2. Domus * 3. Radian * 4. CIRA South Parking Garage * 5. Annenberg Public Policy Center 6. Joe’s Cafe at Steinberg Hall - Dietrich Hall 7. Weiss Pavilion at Franklin Field 8. Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine 9. Roberts Proton Therapy Center

Renovation 10. US post office* 11. IRS Headquarters * 12. Inn at Penn 13. Dubois College House 14. Caster entrance on Locust Walk 15. Music Building Renovation and Addition 16. High-rise College Houses 17. School of Dental Medicine Master Plan 18. School of Veterinary Medicine Master Plan 19. University Museum West Wing - Phase 1

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In Phase 1 nine major new building projects and ten significant renovation projects have been completed. The building and renovation projects encompass over 3.8m gross square feet (GSF) of new and renovated space: 198,000 GSF new academic and renovated space; 1,400,000 GSF of new medical research and clinical space; 70,000 GSF of new and renovated student life space; 810,000 GSF of renovated residential space; 652,000 GSF of new third party residential space; 78,000 GSF of new third party retail space; and, 600,000 GSF in the Cira South Garage. This building program is contributing to a better campus environment and moving Penn toward achieving its stated goals. There are several particularly noteworthy projects, including the award winning renovation and expansion of the Music Building, the Annenberg Public Policy Center, the Weiss Pavilion at Franklin Field, the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine and the Roberts Proton Therapy Center. Phase 1 also included the attraction of private commercial development. Domus added 420 new beds in a new housing option to the Penn community while enhancing an important pedestrian entrance to the campus. The Radian added 500 beds, marketed to undergraduate students and has added to the vibrancy of Walnut Street. The HUB is the first of a three phase private housing project enlivening the 40th Street corridor. An additional Phase 1 achievement included the renovation and repurposing by Brandywine Realty Trust of the one-million square foot US Post Office building at 30th and Market Streets for the Internal Revenue Service. This major accomplishment ensures the reuse of an important Philadelphia architectural landmark providing first class office space for 5,000 employees in University City. In summary, Penn, together with its development partners, has constructed or renovated 4.8m GSF during Phase 1 of Penn Connects. A summary of all projects completed in Phase 1 (2006-2010) is shown in the adjacent diagram.

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Renovation 17. Sansom East and West 18. Kings Court and English House 19. Silverman Hall 20. Hill College House 21. the ARCH 22. Van Pelt Library Special Collections Center 23. Meyerson Hall phase 1 24. Hutchinson gymnasium Infill and Renovation 25. Levy Tennis Pavilion 26. Evans Building Clinics 27. 1920 Commons 28. Steinberg Conference Center 29. Vance Hall 30. education Commons

Phase 2 Opportunities Initiatives proposed in Phase 2 include a wide range of renovation projects, new construction, open space and infrastructure projects. These are described in further detail in Chapter 1.0. A complete list of proposed projects, which are in varying stages of development, is provided in this Phase 2 (2011-2015) diagram. Major new renovation projects include the ARCH, Hutchinson Gym Infill, Meyerson Hall, Van Pelt Library, Hill College House, and Sansom East & West. Major new construction projects include several academic, research, housing and support facilities. Major new academic facilities include: Singh Center for Nanotechnology; Golkin Hall, Neural Behavioral Sciences, and the Steinberg-Dietrich West Addition. New clinical and clinical support facilities include: the Translational Research Center and Presbyterian Hospital Expansion. New housing facilities include: the new College House at Hill Square; apartments at 40th and Pine streets, and at 40th and Chestnut streets. Infrastructure facilities include the Mod 7 Chiller expansion and a new Data Center at Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s South Bank. Phase 2 also identifies sites for mixeduse development at CIRA South on Walnut Street, and 34th and Chestnut streets. Open space and streetscape improvement projects include: Shoemaker Green, the Walnut Street Gateway, Spruce Street Plaza, 3600 Woodland Walk, 34th and 38th streets.

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Phase 3 Proposed Projects: New Construction 1. Franklin building Site Redevelopment 2. CIRA South Chestnut residential 3. Hamilton Village Infill College Houses 4. Meyerson Hall Addition 5. Lot 2 Redevelopment 6. Ice Rink Redevelopment 7. Walnut South Mixed Use 8. Penn Tower Replacement 9. South Tower Expansion 10. Penn Medicine Expansion 11. Indoor Track 12. Penn’s south bank Development 13. garage 14 redevelopment

Renovation 14. social science quad redevelopment 15. Laboratory for research on the structure of matter (LRSM) 16. annenberg center for performing arts 17. David Rittenhouse Laboratories Renovation 18. College Hall West Wing Renovation

Streetscape / Open Space 19. 39th Street Streetscape 20. Hamilton Walk Streetscape (38th to Miller Plaza) 21. Hamilton Walk Extension to 34th Street 22. urban Plaza 23. UNIVERSITY AVENUE STREETSCAPE 24. Guardian drive

Phase 3 includes projects that have been identified by each School or Center as long term priority goals, but are not funded in their current five-year capital plan. Some of the projects have undefined programs and uses at this time, and are included as capacity studies for site redevelopment. They are included here to illustrate the development potential for several sites across the campus including the Walnut Street Corridor, the Penn Medecine Expansion Area, Penn’s South Bank, the Franklin Building and Annex site and Hamilton Village. Each of these sites and their recommendations are provided in Chapter 2 of this report: Areas of Study. The Walnut Street corridor provides several opportunities for substantial development including the Walnut Gateway site, redevelopment of the Ice Rink and Lot 2. Collectively, these sites offer the potential for enhancing the Walnut Street corridor as a gateway to the campus and for accommodating a range and mix of uses that will support the mission of the University. The Penn Medicine Expansion zone, located east of the Highline on River Fields Drive, provides long-term capacity for Penn Medicine that can be linked via a new bridge system directly with the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine. Redevelopment is indicated on the site of the existing Penn Tower for a new patient bed tower. A South Tower expansion for research and clinical care is also envisioned. Penn’s South Bank Site at Grays Ferry Avenue, similar in area to the postal lands in the 2006 Plan, provides a significant opportunity to create a new campus district. Penn Connects 2.0 provides a framework for redeveloping the site over time and includes recommendations for linking the site into the Penn circulation network. The plan provides a flexible grid that can be developed in response to opportunities over the coming years, but with design principles and guidelines that will ensure a unified environment emerges. Hamilton Village is identified for infill development to accommodate future housing in response to the mission and programmatic objectives of the University. The renovation of College Hall’s West Wing and the renovation and possible expansion of DRL will be priorities. The Social Science Quad and Franklin Building area are identified for redevelopment for academic use. An addition to Meyerson Hall is identified to accommodate the programmatic needs of the School of Design. Another project identified for Phase 3 is an Indoor Track south of Hollenback Center on the site of the existing Annex. In Phase 3, continued investment is proposed in the civic framework of the campus, including improvements to the 39th Street and Hamilton Walk streetscapes, and a new urban plaza north of Franklin Field on the site of existing Ringe Squash Courts, which are planned to be relocated so as to establish an improved link between Shoemaker Green and Penn Park. Phasing

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New Construction 1. Penn Presbyterian hospital Expansion

35. Van Pelt Library Special Collections Center

2. Residential Development at 3939 and 4001 Chestnut

36. Meyerson Hall renovations and addition 37. David Rittenhouse Laboratories

3. 34th and Chestnut Mixed Use

38. Evans Building Clinics

4. Golkin Hall

39. 1920 Commons

5. New College House at Hill Square

40. Steinberg Conference Center

6. CIRA South Chestnut Mixed Use

41. Vance Hall

7. Franklin Building Redevelopment

42. College Hall West Wing

8. K RISHNA P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology

43. education Commons

9. CIRA South Walnut Mixed Use

44. Hutchinson gymnasium Infill and Renovation

10. Hamilton Village Infill College houses

45. Levy Tennis Pavilion

11. Lot 2 Redevelopment

46. Ryan Hospital

12. Ice Rink Redevelopment

47. Richards medical labs

13. Walnut South Mixed Use

48. Fagin Hall

14. Garage 14 Redevelopment

49. Perelman school of medecine Education Facility

15. S teinberg hall - Dietrich Hall West Addition

50. Stemmler Hall

16. Barker Transplant House

51. Museum West Wing

17. 40th and Pine Residential Development

52. 3803 Locust

18. Neural Behavioral Sciences 19. PA Hall Site Redevelopment 20. Translational Research Center

53. Walnut Street Streetscape (33rd to 30th)

21. PCAM South Pavilion

54. Walnut Street Streetscape (30th to 23rd)

22. Penn Tower Replacement

55. Locust Walk Restoration

23. Medical Expansion

56. Class of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;49 / Generational Bridge Renovation

24. Mod 7 Chiller Expansion 25. Indoor Track 26. Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s south bank Redevelopment

Renovation

57. 3 4th Street Streetscape (Walnut to Spruce) 58. 3 8th Street Streetscape (Walnut to Spruce) 59. 3 9th Street Streetscape (Walnut to Spruce)

27. social science quad

60. Hamilton Walk Streetscape (38th to 36th)

28. Sansom East and West

61. Hamilton Walk Connection to 34th Street

29. Kings Court / English House

62. Shoemaker Green

30. Silverman Hall

63. Penn Park

31. Hill College House

64. Spruce Street Plaza

32. Laboratory for research on the structure of matter (LRSM) 33. annenberg center for performing arts 34. the ARCH existing building

Streetscape/Open Space

renovation

65. Athletic Field 66. Convention Avenue Streetscape 67. guardian drive

new construction

Phasing

5.0 acknowledgements Dr. Amy Gutmann, President, University of Pennsylvania

Advisory Committee

Facilities and Real Estate Services

Anne Papageorge, Vice President, Facilities and Real Estate Services Chairperson

David Hollenberg, University Architect

Vincent Price, Provost Craig Carnaroli, Executive Vice President

Ed Datz, Executive Director of Real Estate Mark Kocent, Principal Planner, Penn Connects 2.0 Project Manager

Andrew Binns, Associate Provost for Education

Sasaki Associates, Inc.

Rebecca Bushnell, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences

Dennis Pieprz

Eduardo Glandt, Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Gregory Havens

Steve Fluharty, Vice President for Research

Peter Brigham

Stephen Golding, Vice President for Finance and Treasurer

Sejal Agrawal

Kevin Mahoney, Senior Vice President and CEO, UPHS

Neda Movaghar

Thomas Robertson, Dean, Wharton School

Raymond Lanser

Gregory Rost, Vice President and Chief of Staff Marilyn Jordan Taylor, Dean, Penn Design

Perspective Artist Michael McCann

Wendy White, Senior Vice President and General Counsel Marie Witt, Vice President, Business Services John Zeller, Vice President, Development and Alumni Relations

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