Inquirer: DRPA OKs $6 million for President’s House, Franklin Square
Inquirer: DRPA OKs $11 million for six projects
Inquirer staff writer Paul Nussbaum reports this morning that the Delaware River Port Authority board voted on giving $11 million to six projects, two of which are in Philadelphia. Those two projects are the President’s House memorial near Independence Hall ($3.5 million) and a restaurant in Franklin Square and for the Lights of Liberty show ($2.5 million).
Projects in Camden were a proposed medical school ($1.5 million), improvements to Admiral Wilson Boulevard ($1.5 million), and demolition and other improvements ($2 million).
Many see these decisions as an inappropriate allocation of bridge toll revenue and will ask New Jersey Goernor Corzine to veto them. Corzine has ten business days to decide.
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