Mayor Kenney plans to announce $90 million in city funding for a planned waterfront park that will extend from the Delaware River on top of Interstate 95 and Columbus Boulevard in Center City, according to a report Monday by PlanPhilly.
The park, which is intended to create a friendly green space connecting the waterfront to the rest of Center City, would cost a total of $225 million with the additional funding coming from state and philanthropic sources, the website reported.
The project, which is still in the early design stage, would encompass 11 acres between Chestnut and Walnut Streets. An existing park, which includes the Irish Memorial, occupies part of the space over I-95, but stops before Columbus Boulevard and is 30 feet above the level of Penn’s Landing. Read more