[QUOTE] The tracks have been silent and the weeds have been growing for three decades, but a plan to transform a rusty elevated railway into a verdant escape on the edge of Philadelphia's downtown is starting to take shape. Thanks in part to two foundations' $1 million investment announced Monday, the project - which got its inspiration from New York's High Line - could break ground as early as this summer. The funds are part of $11 million the John S. and James L. Knight and William Penn foundations are putting toward five Philadelphia projects as part of an initiative led by the city's Fairmount Park Conservancy to activate public space throughout the city. "We can't just bring parks back to life, we have to bring people back to parks," said Kathryn Ott Lovell, executive director of the conservancy, which spearheads projects throughout the more than 9,000 acres of green space, trails and woods that make up Fairmount Park. "It's about activating public space to bring people together."
The tracks of the Reading Viaduct carried trains for nearly a century, but the city hopes it will soon become a walkable hangout similar to the High Line in Manhattan. The initial phase would turn a quarter-mile spur into green space in the city's Callowhill section - a neighborhood desperately in need of an anchor park, said Paul Levy, president and CEO of the Center City District, a business improvement organization pushing the project[/QUOTE]
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I know every thread I've started on this board relates to Philly, but goddamn this is cool
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its already a fucking park
Hopefully this'll be as cool as Manhattan's Highline.
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[QUOTE=ep9832;47337623]Hopefully this'll be as cool as Manhattan's Highline.
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That's pretty cool
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