WHO: Mayor Michael A. Nutter
Senator Arlen Specter
Congressman Robert Brady
William P. Hankowsky, Chairman, President and CEO, Liberty Property Trust
Peter S. Longstreth, President, Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation
WHAT: Mayor Nutter will attend a groundbreaking ceremony of two new flexible use, LEED-certified buildings. This groundbreaking marks the start of construction at the new Navy Yard Commerce Center. Liberty Property Trust partly financed the construction through $16 million in Recovery Zone Facility Bonds distributed through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
This Navy Yard project will be Liberty Property Trust’s first construction project nationally since May 2009.
WHERE: 4000 S. 26th Street, outside tent, Navy Yard
WHEN: Monday, January 3, 2011 1:00 p.m.