
We’ve been covering a lot of what’s going on in Locust Square with the River Trail Path and other developments with pedestrian traffic in Schuylkill River Park, so we thought we’d let our readers know of another big project in this file. The non-profit Community Design Collaborative is working for the Friends of Schuylkill River Park on gateway improvements for the park at Taney and Pine Streets. The FSRP have begun developing the new vision for the gateway to this park, to “potentially transform the park into an archetype of a living, didactic landscape,” according to the FSRP. The project will concentrate on the “front parlor” entry and the larger, paved gathering area referred to as “the living room” to solve the problems of dark space, cracked pavement, drainage problems, cross circulation for bicycles and the recirculation of water in the central fountain.