{"id":299002,"date":"2026-10-03T10:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T10:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/299002\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T10:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T10:36:08","slug":"new-philadelphia-workforce-facility-planned-to-open-in-2029","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/299002\/","title":{"rendered":"New Philadelphia workforce facility planned to open in 2029"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia Youth Basketball is planning to build a new $50 million workforce development facility in North Philadelphia designed to connect young adults with careers in skilled trades, health care and entrepreneurship.\n<\/p>\n<p>The 40,000-square-foot facility, dubbed \u201cThe Generator,\u201d is set to break ground in fall 2027 and open in early 2029, alongside the Alan Horwitz \u201cSixth Man\u201d Center.\n<\/p>\n<p>At the project\u2019s unveiling, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro announced a $500,000 investment through the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program meant to strengthen workforce development in the commonwealth.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the moment a student steps into the Sixth Man Center, they\u2019re met with a real community of support \u2014 learning about teamwork, perseverance and how to pick yourself up after a loss \u2014 all while shooting hoops,\u201d Shapiro said.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[442,69,71,70,175],"class_list":["post-299002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-gov-josh-shapiro","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-workforce-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299002","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=299002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}