Way, Bill
NAME: Bill Way
Biography:
Source: Burr Van Atta and Russell Cooke, Inquirer Staff Writers William J. Way, 45, associate executive director of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority and director of the authority's convention center program, died yesterday at Graduate Hospital. He had suffered from AIDS.
Active in the city's housing and business affairs since his college days, his most recent project had been relocation of businesses from the Center City convention center area.
On medical leave from his post since April, he was diagnosed as a victimPublished on 1988-01-08, Page B01, Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA)
[J. WAY, CITY EXEC, 45-YEAR-OLD AIDS VICTIM]Source: JIM NICHOLSON, Daily News Staff Writer William J. Way, associate executive director of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority who had a reputation for being able to move ideas and projects through the bureaucracy with results, died yesterday of complications stemming from acquired immune deficiency syndrome. He was 45 and lived in Center City.
Way had held his present position with the Redevelopment Authority since 1984 and was the point man for relocation of businesses in the area planned for the Convention Center. Except forPublished on 1988-01-08, Page 88, Philadelphia Daily News (PA)
His AIDS quilt is here and a second quilt here.
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Date of Birth: 9/2/1942
Date of Death (delete if non-applicable): 1/7/1988
Age at Death (delete if non-applicable): 45
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