. . . to its new home:
When the Liberty Bell begins its slow journey at dawn Thursday, it will be moving from Market Street to a new home only 100 yards away in the new Liberty Bell Center.
. . .
“It’s moving a few hundred feet geographically,” said Gary Nash, a historian at the University of California, Los Angeles, “and a few hundred miles conceptually.”
The move is part of a continuing $300 million redesign of Independence Mall, under way for more than a decade. The Gateway Visitor Center at Sixth and Market and the National Constitution Center on Arch Street, also part of the redesign, have been completed.
I visited the new Independence Visitor Centor last summer and it’s really nice. I imagine a visit to the Mall would be even better now.