Philly Mayor: The Barnes’ New Site

A day after finding out that the Barnes Collection will be allowed to move to Philadelphia, the city’s mayor announced the new Barnes site. It will be at the Youth Study Center, which is now the city’s juvenile detention center at the corner of 20th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. “The move to the Youth Study Center, however, has some complications. The city has already bought land in West Philadelphia to build a new juvenile detention center, but that new building won’t be ready to occupy until October 2007. The Barnes however clearly wants to start building its new museum much sooner.”