Joe Egan, 74, Ran Philadelphia Parking Authority Joe Egan, a former executive direc-


tor of the Philadelphia ParkingAuthori- ty, died of pancreatic cancer in lateApril. He was 74 and lived in Holland, PA. Egan was a key figure behind some important projects in the city, such as the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Four Seasons hotel on the Parkway and Inde- pendenceMall. The native Philadelphian graduated from North Catholic High School in


1952. He later took courses at Temple UniversityAfter working some factory jobs in his youth, he was drafted into the Army in 1954, the Philadelphia Daily News reported. When Egan left the service, he


worked in real estate. He married Patri- cia Saring in 1959. In 1964, he sawan ad for a job with the Redevelopment Authority. That was the beginning of his service with the city.


He was deputy commerce director


in the 1970s under then-Mayor Frank Rizzo. He later became president of the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corp., and then executive director of the city ParkingAuthority. Eganwas fiercely supportive of the


Parking Authority, and in 2003, he dashed off a letter to the Daily News in response to an editorial that said the agencywreaked of the “stinky fumes of patronage.” On the job just two months, Egan


wrote that he had arrived at an agency with a “dedicated professional staff committed to managing the city’s park- ing and transportation system to sup- port economic development. “While surely not perfect and not


immune from political influence, the authority works diligently to improve parking opportunities and perform our duties in a consistent and efficientman- ner.And we will get better.” Eganwas on the board of the Foun-


dation forMelanoma Research, found- ed by his niece, Noreen O’Neill, who later died of the disease. In addition to his wife, he is survived by three sons, Joseph, Patrick and David; two sisters, Marie and Eleanor; a brother, Francis, and three grandchildren.


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