A team of Collaborative volunteers is working with Cedar Parks Neighbors to create design strategies for redeveloping the commercial corridor on Baltimore Avenue from 49th to 52nd Street. The volunteer team led by David Hincher, an architect at Kieran Timberlake, recently held a community meeting to get neighborhood input on design ideas and to discuss visions for revitalizing the corridor.
Collaborative volunteers will develop a conceptual master plan to revitalize Weccaccoe Playground.
The Community Design Collaborative has awarded its first round of service grants for 2010 to The Enterprise Center Community Development Corporation, Mantua Community Improvement Committee, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Friends of Weccacoe Playground/Queen Village Neighbors Association, The Friends of Hart Park/Kensington South Neighborhood Advisory Council, Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates and Roxborough Development Corporation. In this round, many of the Collaborative’s clients are working to provide Philadelphia neighborhoods with access to healthy food, and vibrant parks and public spaces.
Landscape improvements along 63rd Street in Overbrook Farms designed by Sara Pevaroff Schuh.
Pedestrians and drivers along the 63rd Street Commercial Corridor in historic Overbrook Farms will get a treat this spring when the sidewalk planters built by the Overbrook Farms Club emerge from the snow and begin to bloom.
The landscape improvements were designed by Sara Pevaroff Schuh, Principal of SALT Design Studio and a regular Collaborative volunteer, as part of a larger effort by the Overbrook Farms Club (OFC) to enliven its neighborhood commercial corridor, which extends from City Line Avenue to Woodbine Avenue. The initial idea for the project came from a master plan for the corridor that Collaborative volunteers developed in 2007 to provide OFC with a vision for revitalization and strategies for beautification, façade improvements, and site identity.
In a former pipe shop transformed into the national headquarters for Urban Outfitters, the Infill Philadelphia: Industrial Sites design challenge got off to a rousing start with a program that highlighted the possibilities for industrial reuse and announced the sites and teams engaged in the design challenge.
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Photos by Mark Garvin
Presenters Bill Struever, President and CEO of Baltimore based Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse, and John Grady, Executive Vice President of the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation, saw industry as a key to sustaining Philadelphia’s diversified, resilient economy and former industrial buildings as valuable assets. In his keynote address, Struever shared examples of his award-winning industrial reuse projects, which have transformed empty factories into offices, distribution centers and housing. Pointing to the ability of refurbished urban industrial buildings to attract business, stimulate job growth, and create a strong sense of place, Struever said, “Old industrial buildings make terrific places to live, work, and have fun.”
The Center for Architecture was bursting at the seams for the February 5 opening of Retooling Industrial Sites despite the impending snowstorm of the century. Over 300 people attended the opening of the exhibit and came out to see the work of over 30 design firms transforming older industrial sites.
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Stop by and check out the exhibit, which runs until March 26 at the Center for Architecture. For more info, click here.
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