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Philadelphia is eyeing a plan to build a cap over the Vine Street Expressway in Chinatown. The intent is to reconnect the two parts of the neighborhood divided by Interstate 676, which sits below ground level. The project is called Chinatown Stitch. It is funded by the city, the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Knight Foundation.
"The Chinatown Stitch," an effort in Philadelphia to reconnect the Chinatown neighborhood decades after the Vine Street Expressway cut it apart, is now.
Construction gets underway this spring on the 11 1/2-acre park that will be built over I-95 at Penn's Landing. The park will extend to the Delaware River waterfront, running from Chestnut to Walnut streets, and will include public gardens, an amphitheater, play areas and food trucks. The $328.9 million project also will feature an extension of the South Street Bridge to connect pedestrians and cyclists with the waterfront.