Penn School of Design Partnering with City of Philadelphia and Philadelphia Daily News to Handle Legalized Gambling Issues

Penn School of Design Partnering with City of Philadelphia and Philadelphia Daily News to Handle Legalized Gambling Issues

WHO:Penn School of Design students, Philadelphia Daily News,

Mayor John Street, architect Stan Eckstut

WHAT:Planning session about legalized gambling in Pennsylvania

WHEN:Feb. 10-13, 2005

WHERE:University of Pennsylvania campus

The University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Daily News are partners in a project to work on city planning and design issues involving legalized gambling in Pennsylvania.  

Penn design and architecture students will hear a talk by architect Stan Eckstut of the international architectural firm Ehrenkrantz, Eckstut & Kuhn, which designed the MGM Mirage City Center project in Las Vegas.  The lecture will be Thursday, Feb. 10, at 6 p.m. in Stiteler Hall at 37th Street and Locust Walk, Room B-6.

On Friday, Feb. 11, Mayor Street meets with the students at 6 p.m. in Meyerson Hall, 34th Street and Locust Walk, Room B-1, to give them the charge for their work for the weekend.

The group will break into teams in a competition, called a charette, in which they'll produce plans and designs for what the gambling places could look like and discuss what impact the gambling sites will have on the city.