Harry K gives us the history of the Paine’s Park site, once an industrial area along the Schuylkill River’s eastern bank that was filled with manufacturing facilities, including the electrical generating plant of the Hestonville, Mantua & Fairmount Passenger Railway, later taken over by the Philadelphia Electric Company

Few people loved the granite that covered Dilworth Plaza except skateboarders, and now they’ll get to keep skating on some of it