Apparently on Tuesday, every parking spot in the South Philly Sports Complex filled up for the first time ever, which started more discourse on the (former) bird site about land use, etc. Here's a little google earth crayon with some vaguely realistic land uses and some wildly unrealistic transit connections. The land is a) a floodplain and b) walled off by highways (boo) so I'm not actually putting in much residential. Also making some effort to maintain sightlines into south philly and center city.
Land Use Key:
Green- open space/non-auto oriented "tailgating", reserve a spot with a grill and electric hookup on gamedays. The land between CBP and the subway station is preserved for a future football stadium. north of CBP would be a normal park
Yellow- commercial (bars restaurants shops etc). demand on the eastern edge might be too low idk
Cyan- residential, on the northern end as a continuation of the existing neighborhood. rowhouses or lowrise apartments
Orange- parking structures (I know, boo, but realistically some parking is inevitable given the highway access and how much money is made from parking). I don't love how boxed in wells-fargo is but I wanted them close to the highway. If all the transit access got built I would ditch the one on the west.
Magenta- SEPTA "Game Day Special" regional rail station
No overlay- Existing land use
Transit Key:
Magenta- SEPTA "Game Day Special" regional rail extension from 30th st. Uses existing CSX ROW, though it would require some more connections to get into the main SEPTA system. Not currently electrified, so would need to either electrify it, or honestly some sort of "battery tender" I think would actually not be a terrible use here?
Green- extension of the current 15 ROW to go down "columbus boulevard" (delaware ave) using the mostly unused spur (would require re-gauging though, or running separate standard gauge LRVs). there's a few alternate routes through the industrial areas where currently it swings east.
Dark Purple- Broad Street Subway extension to the Navy Yard. Not really an impact on game day logistics
Not included is the Roosevelt Ave extension of the BSL, ideally with extending the quad track down to Pattison (NRG)