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The Spring Garden Greenway is a $200,000 improvement project for Spring Garden Street from 2nd St. to Delaware Avenue - including the foreboding Spring Gardel El stop. Supported by William Penn Foundation, Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, the Mural Arts program, Morris Arboretum, and Transport Workers Local 234, this project will install murals and new lighting beneath the I-95/El overpass; bring new lights and street trees all along Spring Garden; put custom-made street furniture on the sidewalks; and landscape the "Doughboy" pocket park at 2nd and Spring Garden. DIGSAU, Interface Studio, and City Play, the NLNA's design, planning, and landscaping consultants, will hold a series of community meetings this summer. Philadelphians will see the improvements go in from the fall of this year to the fall of 2010.
Northern Liberties is one of three Model Neighborhoods for the Philadelphia Water Department's Green Streets program. This initiative uses "green" tools - street trees, landscaping, vegetative swales (water absorbers), rain barrels, and more - to beautify blocks, increase the energy efficiency of homes, cut down on utility bills, and keep dirty flood waters out of our basements and rivers. More info at http://www.phillywatersheds.org/ and http://www.phillyriverinfo.org/
We are proud to announce that work is now complete at Liberty Lands. We have laid new sod, planted trees, installed underground cisterns, planted a rain garden, and built a stage! Thanks to everyone who helped make it possible, especially Patrick McDonald & Howard Steinberg for all of their hard work. Read about it online.
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