A future redevelopment of the shuttered Philadelphia Energy Solutions site has the potential to create 10,000 jobs, Councilman Kenyatta Johnson told the Business Journal after a briefing by the company that placed the winning bid for the refinery.
Hilco Redevelopment Partners, a unit of Chicago-based Hilco Global, won a bankruptcy court auction to purchase the defunct refinery for $240 million on Tuesday.
Johnson represents District 2, which encompasses the 1,300-acre South Philadelphia refinery…