Bringing the plans to life, illustrated renderings portrayed a connected, vibrant, and accessible park, with more amenities for all users. Key features include elevated boardwalks around the park’s beloved lakes, new wooded picnic groves, expanded play spaces for children, new tidal and non-tidal wetlands, multipurpose fields, a great lawn for passive and active events, expanded trails, improved roads, adaptive reuse of the historic park buildings, and a hill that will rise 35 feet above the park, providing stunning new views of the landscape and the Philadelphia skyline. There were also games and kids’ activities along with a variety of local food trucks.
Philadelphia’s beloved sports mascots, Phillie Phanatic and the Eagles’ Swoop, posed for photos with guests and showed their support for the plan.
As the event concluded, attendees headed over to Parks on Tap, FPC’s popular travelling beer garden, to lounge under the iconic gazebo and celebrate the tremendous progress to date in addition to what is on the horizon for one of Philadelphia’s most important natural assets.
More information:
FDR Park Master Plan
FDR ParK Master Plan Highlights
