Official:Authorizing The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS), 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, to construct and maintain a pedestrian bridge over and across Convention Avenue, connecting the UPHS Penn Tower Complex (One Convention Avenue) with the proposed Perlman Center for Advanced Medicine (3400 Civic Center Boulevard), under certain terms and conditions.
Sponsor: Councilmember Blackwell
Introduced: March 15, 2007
Signed: April 26, 2007
: Committee on Streets and Services
Status: Signed into Law, step 4 of 4
This bill allows the University of Pennsylvania to build a pedestrian bridge over Convention Avenue to connect two medical buildings.
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