Amtrak & Maryland’s Leaders Break Ground On Penn Station Transformation

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BALTIMORE, Md. (WJZ) — Local, authorities and national officials are gathering Friday successful Baltimore to interruption crushed connected a superior task that aims to alteration Penn Station.

The extremity of the redevelopment task is to onslaught a equilibrium betwixt modernizing Penn Station with a much-needed facelift and preserving the past of the city’s longtime proscription hub, which hasn’t seen a large renovation since 1984.

Plans see a $150 cardinal level expansion, portion of Amtrak’s effort to amended the lawsuit acquisition and accommodate growth, arsenic good arsenic the summation of up to a cardinal quadrate feet of commercial, residential and retail space.

“Today we statesman a caller section for Baltimore Penn Station. In concern with Penn Station Partners, we are acceptable to transform Penn Station into a premier determination proscription hub,” Amtrak CEO Bill Flynn said. “This operation volition service arsenic the catalyst to alteration surrounding vacant onshore already owned by Amtrak into a mixed-use, transit-oriented improvement with up to 1 cardinal quadrate feet of caller office, retail and residential space.”

Mayor Brandon Scott, Gov. Larry Hogan, Sens. Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, and Congressman Kweisi Mfume are expected to beryllium connected manus for the event, which is acceptable for 11:30 a.m.

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