The National Recreation and Park Association's annual conference highlights the City of Philadelphia's Rebuild initiative.
Supported by a record $100 million grant from the William Penn Foundation, Philadelphia launched a high-profile, mayor-backed, seven-year, $500 million initiative called “Rebuild” to revitalize neighborhood parks, recreation centers, playgrounds, and libraries across the city.
As the City's Rebuild initiative lays the groundwork for a major investment in rec centers, parks and libraries, two neighborhoods offer a road map to getting this overhaul right.
Seventeen stakeholders have been named to a new oversight board for the Rebuild initiative to improve Philadelphia's public spaces. Their first public meeting is 11/1.
Knight Foundation's $3.28 million grant to the Fairmount Park Conservancy to bolster residents' engagement in the city’s changing public spaces is "riding the wave" of Rebuild.
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney announced Vare Recreation Center as the first Rebuild project.
The Patricia Kind Family Foundation announced a $125,000 grant to the City of Philadelphia’s Rebuild initiative to support the community engagement and design process for improvements at Vare Recreation Center.
Following the decision by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to dismiss the long-running legal challenge to the Philadelphia Beverage Tax, which supplies key revenue for Rebuild, work on Mayor Kenney's $500 million project to improve libraries, parks, playgrounds, and recreation centers is gearing up.
Through Rebuild, an historic public-private investment in Philadelphia's parks, rec centers and libraries will be transformational for neighborhoods across the city.
Rebuild is on the move! Projects are fully in motion, with work already begun on 24 of the 64 sites approved by City Council for Rebuild funding.
