Tracie Winbigler, Amtrak Chief Financial Officer provides opening remarks

3rd District City Councilmember Jamie Gauthier addresses attendees

Justin Gray, son of the station's namesake Congressman William H. Gray III, addresses attendees

Ryan Boyer, Business Manager of the Philadelphia Building & Construction Trades Council, addresses the audience

Brian Budden (President, Plenary Infrastructure Philadelphia) and Tracie Winbigler (Amtrak CFO) display commemorative check to announce the project's lead developer's commitment to invest $2.5 million in community impact awards.

Attendees of the Construction Kickoff Ceremony

Councilmember Gauthier is holding the original shovel used at the groundbreaking ceremony of the Station in 1931. Amtrak personnel are joined.

The Amtrak team holding the original shovel used at the groundbreaking ceremony of the Station in 1931 as well as commemorative sledgehammers to announce the start of station construction.

Representatives of lead developer, Plenary Infrastructure Philadelphia, are accompanied by Gray 30th Street Station Community Impact Fund awardees: Omar Nelson (Samuel Staten Senior Pre-Apprenticeship Program), Andreina Perez-Heins (Everybody Builds), and Regina Hairston (African American Chamber of Commerce of PA, NJ, DE)

Project construction team leaders including executives from Gilbane Building Company and Pride Enterprises, Inc.

Project construction team members