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There’s No Better Spot for a Greyhound Bus Terminal than the Former Greyhound Bus Terminal

By Kevin Kinkead

Published: Oct 31st, 2025 · 10:40 AM EDT

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Thomas Fitzgerald and Jake Blumgart at the Inquirer:

After more than two years of drama, Greyhound buses may be going home.

The Philadelphia Parking Authority would renovate the former intercity bus terminal on Filbert Street and run it on behalf of the city government, according to a proposed agreement.

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Greyhound ran the terminal at 10th and Filbert for more than three decades but ended its lease in June 2023 amid a national wave of cost-cutting after the bus company’s real estate arm was sold to a hedge fund.

Yeah, so the CliffsNotes here is that Greyhound planned to move out of the spot and find a new location. They informed the city about this in the spring of 2022. When the Sixers later targeted the Fashion District site for the arena project that never happened, the plan was to acquire the unused building and knock it down, then 76 Place would butt up against the Chinatown border at Cuthbert Street.

At the height of the arena battle, Greyhound buses were pulling up along Market Street in a spot that had no bathrooms and no shelter. If it was raining and you had to go number 1, or god forbid, number 2, you were out of luck. Eventually they moved it to a crappy corner of Spring Garden Street, where it has remained ever since.

This was widely regarded as a failure, the inability to find a new location for these buses.

So here we are, right back where we started. The Sixers changed their minds on the arena project despite getting council approval, and they’re teaming up with Comcast-Spectacor to build a new home in South Philly. That made the building available again, which is now being refurbished and brought back into service, as time proves to be a flat circle.