Development Old Train Car On North Broad To Become Rail Park HQ That old abandoned rail car at Broad and Noble is here to stay. The quirky North Philly landmark will become the new Rail Park's headquarters and visitor's ...
Development Long Awaited Construction Of Rail Park Begins Today After more than a decade of planning and public anticipation, construction of the Reading Viaduct Rail Park breaks ...
Urbanism Reactivate The City Branch With A Campus Green Phase 1 of reimagining the Reading Viaduct into a rail park is finally beginning to materialize while plans for the City Branch "cut" of the abandoned line remain at a firm standstill. Jeffery Markovitz thinks ...
Preservation Rock & Roll For Rail For Real A killer lineup at tomorrow's fundraiser concert for the Friends of the Rail Park aims to take the group one step closer to Phase One of the makeover of the former Reading Railroad ...
Art & Design The Viaduct At The Heart Of Her Life And Art Perhaps no one is more responsible for the vision of transforming the Reading Viaduct into a civic space and park than the acclaimed painter Sarah McEneaney. Nathaniel Popkin talks with McEneaney at Locks Gallery, where ...
Development Official “Marriage” Of Reading Viaduct Advocates The decade-old Reading Viaduct Project will merge with Friends of the Rail Park to help manage the first phase of the park, set for construction next year, and to work toward the vision of a ...
Art & Design Saturday’s Party For The Viaduct Underscores Progress, Exposes Challenges With public support building, Saturday's Rally for the Rail Park block party culminates a year of progress toward a Reading Viaduct Park. Key questions linger, however, as Nathaniel Popkin ...
Urbanism Plan For City Branch Rail Park Emerges The long awaited vision for turning the City Branch into a park connecting the Reading Viaduct and Fairmount Park will be released this week. It calls for a muscular new civic space at Broad Street ...
