This past Tuesday, October 20th, the Philadelphia Phillies and the city of Philadelphia broke ground on an expansion project at the team’s Urban Youth Academy in South Philadelphia.
The only one of MLB’s current seven UYA programs offering multi-site, indoor-outdoor baseball and softball training facilities, this most recent ground-breaking took part to kick off expansion at the indoor facility.
The indoor facility for the Phillies UYA is located at the Marian Anderson Recreation Center, 740 S. 17th Street, between 17th & 18th, Catherine and Fitzwater Streets in South Philly.
The new space at the facility is slated to provide for baseball and softball training, educational, and baseball vocational programs.