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Philadelphia's Grand New Dilworth Park—How a Public-Private Partnership Delivered
Dilworth Park, on the front door of Philadelphia's City Hall, made a splashy debut yesterday, but just as impressive as the design of the park is the work of a non-profit in achieving the grand vision for the park.
Yesterday, Philadelphia inaugurated the new Dilworth Park, described by Ryan Briggs for Next City as "a reimagined space surrounding City Hall, complete with a sweeping lawn, a cafe, fountains, public art and a new entrance to the city’s busiest transit hub."
Briggs also notes that the new park "represents one of the largest public-private partnerships undertaken in Philadelphia to date," thanks to "over a decade of work along with $55 million…on the part of CEO Paul Levy and his Center City District (CCD), an economic development non-profit created in the 1950s to channel public and private dollars into improving a then- beleaguered downtown."
The article includes a lot more detail on the work of delivering the park.
Published on Wednesday, September 3, 2014 in
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