June 19, 2020 - The Philadelphia Business Journal

An Australian firm hired by PennDOT to reconstruct a series of 548 bridges across the state has been selected by Amtrak to oversee the management and $300 million to $400 million renovation of 30th Street Station in Philadelphia.

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May 4, 2018 - Progressive Railroading

Amtrak has issued a request for qualifications (RFQ) from master developers interested in making improvements to the railroad's 30th Street Station in Philadelphia.

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May 3, 2018 - NEXT CITY (Rachel Kaufman)

Amtrak has released a Request for Qualifications for a master developer for 30th Street Station in Philadelphia, part of a a $10-billion, 35-year project that has the potential to vastly transform the neighborhood.

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May 3, 2018 - Amtrak

PHILADELPHIA – As part of its ongoing work to enhance the customer experience at Philadelphia 30th Street Station, Amtrak announced today it is seeking a master developer partner to update the historic station. With the release of a Request for Qualifications (RFQ), Amtrak begins a two-phase process that will result in the selection of a preferred developer who will assist in: introducing new customer amenities, reinvigorating the retail and commercial potential of the station, enhancing transit and pedestrian circulation and expanding the station’s concourses to accommodate anticipated increases in ridership.

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November 15, 2017 - PhillyVoice (Andrew Parent)

Amtrak revealed updated designs last week for a proposal to overhaul the area outside 30th Street Station.

The release offered more of a glimpse of how the proposed 30th Street Station Plaza could change the city's main transportation hub for decades to come.

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November 14, 2017 - Curbed Philadelphia (Melissa Romero)

Amtrak just revealed its preferred design concept for its “grand civic space” at 30th Street Station, swapping out proposed circular paving patterns for circular benches and planters, instead. That, plus a big plan to improve traffic and pedestrian flow around the station.

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August 24, 2017 - Curbed Philadelphia (Melissa Romero)

Amtrak is wasting no time starting work on its multi-billion dollar 30th Street Station District plan. But first, it needs a developer.

Amtrak has taken another step forward by issuing a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) this week in search of a master developer to help lead the ambitious multi-billion dollar project, which includes the redevelopment of 30th Street Station itself and 18 million square feet of new development around it, including a new neighborhood and 40 acres of green space.

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July 19, 2017 - The Architects Newspaper (Jackson Rollins)

As part of Philadelphia’s massive downtown redevelopment efforts, new plans were released on Tuesday for an integrated civic space surrounding 30th Street Station—the third-busiest Amtrak station in the country—by a design team including FXFOWLE, !melk, and ARUP.

Over the next three decades, the station’s traffic is expected to double, according to a marketing brochure for the overall project, bringing renewed interest to the surrounding business district dubbed University City.

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July 13, 2017 - Curbed Philadelphia (Melissa Romero)

At an open house held at 30th Street Station Tuesday afternoon, a design proposal for Station Plaza, the grand civic space planned as part of the 30th Street Station District Plan, was revealed.

The proposal, designed by FXFOWLE, !melk, and ARUP, calls for increased pedestrian pathways, circular paving patterns, skylights on the sidewalk, and elevated tree planters surrounding 30th Street Station. The main goal of this reconfiguration, Amtrak says, is to provide the grand train station with the grand public space.

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July 11, 2017 - Philly.com (Jacob Adelman)

Amtrak wants to replace the traffic-choked snarl that surrounds Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station with tree-canopied public spaces in an early step toward realizing the transit corporation’s $6.5 billion redevelopment vision for a huge adjacent swath of University City.

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