Shawn McCaney for The Philadelphia Citizen, February 19, 2024
Early in September 2023, Mayor Kenney, Governor Shapiro, and assorted dignitaries assembled in a tent on the plaza at Penn’s Landing and raised ceremonial shiny shovels, turning the first bits of soil for the symbolic groundbreaking of the long-awaited I-95 CAP project. More recently, ceremony has given way to active construction: the demolition of the Chestnut Street bridge over Penn’s Landing and the temporary relocation of the Irish and Scottish Memorials.
