Developing: Schuylkill Edging Up Onto Seventh-Borough Status
The rain was falling and the weather was frigid when the tour boat passed under a decrepit bridge and past a giant refrigeration plant. So, a passenger asked the tour guide, just what was that low, yellow building off to the starboard side?
“This is one of the few properties on the river that’s zoned for prisons,” said Louise Turan, executive director of the Schuylkill River Development Corp.
But in keeping with her group’s mission to celebrate and transform the river that’s long been the ugly stepchild of Philadelphia waterways, Turan hastened to note that the building was not now a jail. Rather, it was a methadone clinic.
Inky: People Will Come From All Over The Word To See This Methadone Clinic!
