LOWER SOUTHWEST

Scrapyards & Auto-Related Uses

Recommendation LSW 5: Evaluate best practices and market feasibility for creating a modern scrap/salvage/recycling district to reduce its environmental and physical footprint and create design guidelines for salvage/scrap uses and rail lines that abut residential areas to enhance compatibility with surrounding land uses.

Eastwick Public Lands Strategy

In 2019, the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority completed a new planning and feasibility study in coordination with the community. The plan calls for the construction of senior housing, mixed use and light industrial development, with at least half of the site to be dedicated for flood relief and stormwater control.

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Lower Southwest District Plan

Executive Summary

Technical Memos

First Public Meeting Summary

Second Public Meeting Summary

Draft Plan Comments

The Lower Southwest District Plan was

adopted by PCPC on May 17, 2016.

Lower Southwest District Contact:

Jonathan Goins | (215) 683-4646

Jonathan.Goins@phila.gov

Download the 2022 Lower Southwest District Implementation Update

District at a Glance:

The Lower Southwest contains large residential areas, a major industrial district and the Philadelphia International Airport. The residential areas are experiencing higher levels of vacancy and lower property values even as new immigrant populations from West Africa and Southeast Asia move to the Lower South district.

Despite numerous planned or existing recreation trails that connect such attractions as Cobbs Creek, the Heinz Wildlife Refuge, Fort Mifflin, and Bartram’s Garden, the neighborhoods are mostly isolated from these attractions and the Schuylkill River by industry, wide boulevards, and train tracks. Major industries include Eastwick Industrial Park, the United States Postal Service, and oil refineries. The Philadelphia Airport Auto Mall is adjacent to the industrial park.

Top planning issues:

Potential expansion of PHL
Market demand for industrial land
Neighborhood stability
Access to the Schuylkill River