SOUTH BANK TOUR: Sat. March 29, 10am-Noon
**NOTE: Tour group will meet at 9:45am at 36th and Walnut, outside of the Penn bookstore, to load onto a bus for transportation to South Bank. Bus departs at 10am.**
Join PlanPhilly and the University of Pennsylvania for a behind-the-scenes tour of Penn's South Bank campus. It's a rare opportunity to see former DuPont labs and meet some of South Bank's current tenants who will exhibit their innovative work.
We will visit the PennVet Working Dogs Center, the premier educational and research facility dedicated to canine partners for public safety and human health; hear about groundbreaking greenhouse research being conducted on plants as shelf-stable incubators for medicine as a cost effective distribution method; and watch the inner workings of flying quad rotors by KMel Robotics who were named Innovators of the Year by Popular Science.
Learn about the dynamic activity already going on at South Bank as well as Penn’s emerging plans for this property's transformation into a "New Workshop of the World". Light refreshments to follow. Bus transportation back to 36th/Walnut at Noon.
TEDxPhiladelphia
This event is presented in conjunction with TEDxPhiladelphia 2014, which will explore the theme “The New Workshop of the World” on Friday, March 28 at Temple Performing Arts Center. TEDxPhiladelphia offers interactive, immersive experiences for all participants. The not-for-profit group, licensed by TED, was created in the spirit of the TED conference and its mission, “ideas worth spreading.” While the 2014 conference is SOLD OUT, audiences everywhere can access a free live video webcast of speaker talks at www.TEDxPhiladelphia.org on March 28 and watch talks year-round after the event.
About PlanPhilly
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MORE ABOUT SOUTH BANK:
At their 34th & Grays Ferry Avenue facility, DuPont used to formulate paints and developed specialized vehicle coatings. Now Penn is poised to turn this Lower Schuylkill property into South Bank - a hotbed for innovation, tech transfer, and entrepreneurship - to take ideas from the lab and spin them off to new ventures. South Bank has been attracting tenants to the space since 2010 through the adaptive use of existing buildings and some new construction.
The city’s “eds and meds” anchor the new economy, and South Bank is Philadelphia’s old infrastructure being repurposed for the 21st century. A new development framework released in February outlines Penn’s short term improvements and vision for the future of the site.