{"id":160779,"date":"2026-04-08T20:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160779\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T20:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:41:11","slug":"parking-garage-partially-collapses-in-grays-ferry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160779\/","title":{"rendered":"Parking garage partially collapses in Grays Ferry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A parking garage under construction in Grays Ferry partially collapsed on Wednesday afternoon, killing one man and prompting a heavy emergency rescue response to the site in Southwest Philly, police said. <\/p>\n<p>The garage at 30th Street and Grays Ferry Avenue collapsed just before 2:30 p.m., police said. The site is on the east side of Grays Ferry Avenue, across the street from the Grays Ferry Shopping Center. <\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a data-original-title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyvoice.com\/mike-missanelli-assault-charges-lower-merion\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Former sports radio host Mike Missanelli charged with assaulting fianc\u00e9e<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A man rescued from the scene died at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center shortly after 3 p.m., a police spokesperson said. Others are believed to be trapped in the debris, the spokesperson said, but it&#8217;s unknown how many people could still be inside the structure.<\/p>\n<p>A stairwell under construction at the multilevel garage appears to have been where the structure collapsed, according to multiple reports. <\/p>\n<p>The Philadelphia Fire Department, which responded to the scene Wednesday afternoon, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Philadelphia Gas Works, Philadelphia Water Department and SEPTA officials also are at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"richtext-image full-width\" data-original=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4826_Grays_Ferry_Firemen.width-704.jpg\" width=\"704\" height=\"528\" alt=\"Fire Crews Grays Ferry\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"richtext-image full-width\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4826_Grays_Ferry_Firemen.width-704.jpg\" width=\"704\" height=\"528\" alt=\"Fire Crews Grays Ferry\"\/>Molly McVety\/PhillyVoice<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-image-caption\">Philadelphia Fire Department crews respond to the scene at 30th Street and Grays Ferry Avenue, where a parking garage under construction at the site collapsed Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Police said there is heavy traffic surrounding 30th Street and Grays Ferry Avenue. Authorities have closed off traffic on Grays Ferry Ave. from 27th to 34th streets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A parking garage under construction in Grays Ferry partially collapsed on Wednesday afternoon, killing one man and prompting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[17163,41469,26575,693,69,71,70,206,64408],"class_list":{"0":"post-160779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-building-collapse","9":"tag-emergencies","10":"tag-grays-ferry","11":"tag-investigations","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","14":"tag-philadelphia-news","15":"tag-police","16":"tag-rescues"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}