The ugly mountain of crushed metal heaped at the foot of the Platt Memorial Bridge near the airport - the gateway to Philadelphia for millions of visitors - could soon be gone.
You know the gritty area: 26th Street and Penrose Avenue in South Philadelphia, bordered by a refinery tank farm, a wastewater treatment plant, and billboards hawking booze, burgers, and cars. The Champs Elysees, it's not.
Camden Iron & Metal Inc., which has owned the yard since the 1980s, reducing cars and washing machines to mounds of scrap, is looking to move and consolidate its metal-shredding operation and shipping business at a single location.
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