PA: Philadelphia Airport, in Effort to Bolster Shipping, Buys More Land

Feb. 13, 2018

A massive, mostly vacant land parcel beside Philadelphia International Airport could become a bustling shipping hub for everything from medicine to car parts under a plan to develop the site into a new air-freight complex serving a swath of the northeastern United States.

 
The airport last month acquired control of the so-called Henderson Tract, which sprawls 135 acres  — an area similar in size to  the entire King of Prussia Mall and its parking lots — to the immediate west of its passenger terminals.

The move caps a years-long battle over the fate of the property in Tinicum Township, Delaware County, and is a first step by Philadelphia toward cashing in on its location among some of the nation’s biggest population centers in hopes of becoming a major air-freight power.

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