Daily News | Road closures tonight in Philly: A historic gas station is being moved from 20th and Arch to Fairmount Park
Parkway is a parking garage company and real estate developer. It isn’t usually in the business of preserving buildings, let alone shifting them across town.
“I’ve never moved a building before,” said Wale Mabogunje, vice president at Parkway. “For the most part, we demolish things and build new buildings. So this is a first.”Very few companies have with experience in moving historic buildings, so Parkway’s contractor had only two options. “There are very few of them, and they typically name their price and process,” said Mabogunje, who is the project executive for the new Chubb office tower. “Then you have to stabilize it before you pick the building up, so it doesn’t fall apart on you.”Only night owls will be able to watch this unusual process.
Very rarely are historic buildings uprooted and moved around Philadelphia. In recent years only two historic buildings have been moved in the region, according to the Preservation Alliance of Greater Philadelphia: a townhouse at Ninth and Locust Streets and the King of Prussia Inn.preserves an early artifact of the automobile culture that shaped our city and nation, for good and for ill,” said Paul Steinke, executive director of the Preservation Alliance.
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