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PHILADELPHIA-Gov. Ed Rendell handed a check for $25 million toMayor John Street to help fund construction of a museum for theBarnes Foundation art collection, which will relocate here fromsuburban Merion. The grant is from the state's RedevelopmentCapital Assistance Fund and designated specifically forconstruction of the building and not to endow the property.
Locally based Pew Charitable Trust heads an effort, joined bythe Annenberg and Lenfest foundations, also based here, to raise$150 million for the building, which is projected to cost $100million, and a sustaining endowment. The proposed site for themuseum is at 20th Street and Benjamin Franklin Parkway where theYouth Study Center, a juvenile detention facility now stands.
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