{"id":1004089552,"date":"2014-01-11T00:47:59","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T08:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synd.yardi.com\/?p=230357"},"modified":"2020-04-14T21:41:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T05:41:12","slug":"non-profit-design-center-reveals-renderings-of-columbus-square-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/non-profit-design-center-reveals-renderings-of-columbus-square-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-Profit Design Center Reveals Renderings of Columbus Square Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Veronica Grecu, Associate Editor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The neglected Passyunk Square neighborhood park is set for a much-need redesign with the help of a grant coming from a local non-profit organization.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_230358\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/synd.yardi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/01\/Columbus-Square-Park-rendering.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-230358\" title=\"Columbus Square Park - rendering\" src=\"https:\/\/synd.yardi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/01\/Columbus-Square-Park-rendering.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Columbus Square Park &#8211; rendering<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In March 2013 the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.passyunkpost.com\/2013\/03\/22\/thursday-design-grant-could-foretell-huge-changes-for-columbus-square\/#more-1108\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Passyunk Post<\/a><\/em> reported that the Community Design Collaborative\u2014a community design center that provides pro-bono preliminary design services in Greater Philadelphia\u2014awarded Columbus Square Park a grant meant to help the park\u2019s revitalization. Located in South Philadelphia, Columbus Square Park is bound by 12<sup>th<\/sup>, 13<sup>th<\/sup>, Reed and Wharton streets and features a fenced athletic field that is rarely used, a playground and dog run.<\/p>\n<p>Community members along with representatives from the private sector and the city joined the Community Design Collaborative team to redesign the park and turn it into a stylish green space for the neighborhood. Fast forward a few months and the community task force led by landscape architectural designed Leah Rominger came up with the conceptual design for what appears to be a friendlier Columbus Square Park.<\/p>\n<p>As revealed in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cdesignc.org\/well-played-conceptual-design-for-columbus-square-park\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cdesignc+%28Community+Design+Collaborative+Blog%29\">a blog post by the Community Design Collaborative team<\/a><\/em>, the redevelopment costs at Columbus Square Park will total $2.8 million (of which around $35,000 will cover the value of the design services).<\/p>\n<p>A major turning point for this revitalization plan was the design team\u2019s decision to remove an underutilized building at the corner of the 12<sup>th<\/sup> and Reed streets to make room for the entrance to the park and \u201cgive the community the flow and circulation they wanted\u201d, according to Rominger.<\/p>\n<p>The park will have a new entrance at 12<sup>th<\/sup> and Reed and a network of pathways that will connect all corners of the park\u2019s gathering places. The athletic fields, which will be reduced by 25 percent from the original layout, will take up more than two-thirds of the park and will serve adult and youth sport leagues from around Philadelphia. The redesigned park will also include a new pathway system at the periphery, an expanded dog park and gathering places such as a community \u201clawn\u201d along Reed Street and a \u201cpatio\u201d along 13<sup>th<\/sup> Street.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0Rendering via Community Design Collborative<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The neglected Passyunk Square neighborhood park is set for a much-need redesign with the help of a grant coming from a local non-profit organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":258,"featured_media":1004507222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21742,1494],"tags":[1815],"class_list":["post-1004089552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-philadelphia","tag-national"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.0 (Yoast SEO v28.0) - 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