Penn unveils designs for $75 million performing arts center.The 11-acre site sits next to Penn Treaty Park and is accessible from Rivers Casino via the Delaware Riverwalk. The casino's new Riversuites hotel will include 62 rooms on four floors of the former Delaware River Generating Station, which opened on Beech Street in 1921 and once provided power to nearly half of Philadelphia. Developers are in the process of converting the site into a mixed-use campus known as The Battery. Rivers Casino plans to open a boutique hotel by the end of this year inside the former PECO power plant on the Delaware River waterfront.
