One man has died after a multi-story parking garage under construction partially collapsed Wednesday afternoon in the city’s Grays Ferry section, police said.
The collapse occurred shortly before 2:30 p.m. at 30th Street and Grays Ferry Avenue across the street from the Grays Ferry Shopping Center, police said.
One man rescued from the scene was transported to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 3:03 p.m., police said.
The collapse occurred in the stairwell of the structure, which appeared to have seven levels.
It was not immediately clear if anyone else was trapped in the rubble.
The collapse location is the site of a planned 300,000-square-foot parking garage being built for Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
In 2024, the Philadelphia Business Journal reported that CHOP paid almost $25 million for the 3.4-acre site.
The parking garage was envisioned to allow CHOP workers to more easily drive to work, using the garage and then taking a shuttle to the hospital.
Some community members have expressed concerns about the large scale of the project.