Southwest Center City Philadelphia
human settlement in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Southwest Center City (SWCC), also known as Graduate Hospital, is a neighborhood that is located in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, bordering Center City Philadelphia.
Contrary to what the name might suggest, Southwest Center City is located to the southwest of Center City and is not itself considered part of Center City. The neighborhood is bordered on the north by South Street, on the south by Washington Avenue, on the west by the Schuylkill River, and on the east by Broad Street.
It is an area adjacent to the Fitler Square and Rittenhouse Square neighborhoods to the north and Point Breeze to the south, and is home to community service organizations, restaurants, churches, retail establishments, and some light industry.
Names
The neighborhood has many nicknames. The Philadelphia Planning Commission refers to it as Southwest Center City. Since the 1980s, it has been often referred to as Graduate Hospital, after the medical facility on the northern edge of the neighborhood. This name has become merely historical in nature since the hospital closed in 2007. Despite this, it is still used and is sometimes shortened to G-Ho. The area is also referred to as South of South or So-So.
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