The renovation of City Hall’s Dilworth Plaza is on schedule
for completion next month.
City officials will next week announce an exact date for the
September opening of the newly renamed Dilworth Park.
The kickoff will mark the transformation of the patch of
land on the west side of City Hall from “an inaccessible, multi-level,
hard-surface plaza into a sustainable, well-maintained, green public space
without stairs or barriers from the street,” according to the website of
project developer Center City District.
The renovated park will feature a 21 percent increase in
useable area, resulting in a 120,557-square-foot public space with tree groves
and space for benches and chairs.
Other upgrades are to include a new café, an ice rink for
winter skating and free Wi-Fi.
The park will provide “distinctive entrances” to SEPTA
trains and trolleys and enable both the Market-Frankford and Broad Street lines
to be accessed by elevator, a Center City District spokeswoman said in an
email.
The overhaul of the plaza began in January 2012 and cost an
estimated $70 million, including the transit-related renovations.
Source: Philly.com
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