{"id":20253,"date":"2025-10-30T23:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T23:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/20253\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T23:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T23:31:11","slug":"greyhound-bus-terminal-to-reopen-in-center-city-philadelphia-in-time-for-americas-250th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/20253\/","title":{"rendered":"Greyhound bus terminal to reopen in Center City Philadelphia in time for America&#8217;s 250th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Greyhound bus terminal is returning to 10th and Filbert streets in Center City Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It was closed more than two years ago in anticipation of a new <a href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/sixers-drop-plan-new-arena-center-city-will-stay-south-philadelphia-sources\/15793039\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:76ers arena that never materialized;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">76ers arena that never materialized<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Philadelphia Parking Authority says the new bus terminal will be available for riders in May 2026, just in time for the planned events for <a href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/tag\/america-250\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:America&#039;s 250th birthday celebration;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">America&#8217;s 250th birthday celebration<\/a> next summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The PPA will be responsible for operating the terminal.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Our goal is to create an attractive new &#8216;neighborhood friendly&#8217; state of the art intercity transportation facility that is clean, safe, and well maintained, and will deliberately route buses away from the Chinatown neighborhood,&#8221; PPA Executive Director Rich Lazer said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He went on to say that the new hub will be a key ingredient in the revitalization of nearby blocks and businesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It will &#8220;provide an affordable and welcoming intercity transit option for quick trips to center city, the Pennsylvania Convention Center, the Fashion and Historic Districts, Reading Terminal Market, and Chinatown,&#8221; Lazer said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Greyhound bus terminal is returning to 10th and Filbert streets in Center City Philadelphia. It was closed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[14047,6081,14048,69,71,70,5204],"class_list":["post-20253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-bus-terminal","tag-center-city-philadelphia","tag-filbert-streets","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-parking-authority"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20253","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=20253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}