Penn Coach Yard

The Penn Coach Yard consists of 60 acres of active rail yards immediately adjacent to Philadelphia's main station, used for Amtrak's maintenance and operations of the Northeast Corridor and other essential routes, and occupying increasingly valuable real estate. Our planning study enables the future growth and enhancement of Amtrak's rail operations with new state-of-the art facilities, while coordinating and facilitating future overbuild development on a deck above the yard.

Our study began with operations, comprehensively rethinking and redeveloping the yard, integrating new tracks, a high speed rail shop, additional storage and maintenance tracks, and engineering facilities. The plan for overbuild was then reconsidered and reorganized with a more rigorous eye toward structural coordination with the yard layout, and a more nuanced sensitivity to urban design considerations and their inherent cost, and value implications for overbuild.