The Philadelphia Navy Yard - FLC Mid-Atlantic Region
The Philadelphia Navy Yard - FLC Mid-Atlantic Region
The Philadelphia Navy Yard - FLC Mid-Atlantic Region
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Philadelphia</strong> <strong>Navy</strong> <strong>Yard</strong><br />
A New View of the City
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Navy</strong> <strong>Yard</strong>: Background and Status<br />
• Closure Decisions in 1991, 1993 and 1995<br />
• <strong>Philadelphia</strong> Industrial Development Corporation<br />
took ownership in March 2000<br />
• 1,000 acres, 6.5 million SF of existing buildings<br />
• Early activity focused on industrial assets and<br />
infrastructure<br />
• 4 million SF of occupied space, 6,500 employees,<br />
Aker Shipyard, NAVSEA and 65 private<br />
businesses
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Navy</strong> <strong>Yard</strong>: Site Plan
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Navy</strong> <strong>Yard</strong>: Master Plan
Master Plan – Program Objectives<br />
Acres: 522<br />
New Program:<br />
Office/R&D<br />
Industrial<br />
Retail/Special Purpose<br />
Executive Conference<br />
4.4 – 5.9 million SF<br />
Up to 1.5 million SF<br />
130,000 SF<br />
175 rooms/18,0000 SF<br />
Residential Units 700-4,900<br />
Marina/Recreation<br />
250 slips/100,000 SF<br />
Employment: 18,100-23,800
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Navy</strong> <strong>Yard</strong><br />
Keystone Innovation Zone: <strong>The</strong>sis<br />
• <strong>Philadelphia</strong> must expand its knowledge base, R&D and<br />
commercialization in engineering and physical sciences.<br />
• <strong>Navy</strong> R&D assets at NAVSEA <strong>Philadelphia</strong> create unique<br />
opportunities to leverage new research and commercial activity.<br />
• Penn State University’s applied research in military and<br />
commercial areas, its relationship with the DoD and its<br />
commercialization infrastructure present new capacities and<br />
opportunities for <strong>Philadelphia</strong> and <strong>The</strong> <strong>Navy</strong> <strong>Yard</strong>.<br />
• <strong>The</strong> <strong>Navy</strong> <strong>Yard</strong>’s location, physical scale and real estate assets<br />
provide growth capacity to technology firms emerging from<br />
other <strong>Philadelphia</strong> Keystone Innovation Zones and from outside<br />
the region.
Military Technology Focus Areas<br />
• Power and Energy<br />
– <strong>The</strong> <strong>Navy</strong>’s Power and Energy Capabilities & Infrastructure<br />
– Power generation, transmission, distribution technologies<br />
• Non-nuclear rod bundle testing for nuclear fuel industry<br />
• Advanced Diesel engine testing<br />
• Fuel cell technology development<br />
• Advanced Materials Engineering and Processing<br />
• Communications Systems<br />
• Systems Integration<br />
• Unmanned Systems<br />
• Bio-terrorism and defense<br />
Opportunities to Create Value
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