The groundbreaking for the Baxter Trail section of the North Delaware Riverfront Greenway Trail simply could not have gone better! The weather was perfect, and the turnout was excellent. Among the many notable speakers were Mayor Michael Nutter, Deputy Mayor for Environmental and Community Resources Michael DiBereadinis, Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz, and many more. Check out press […]
Groundbreaking Ceremony, Baxter Trail!
Come to our Groundbreaking Ceremony next Tuesday! Details in the flyer below… hope to see you there!
Trails on the expanded Pennypack
Northeast Times By Tom Waring Former congressman Bob Borski, now chairman of the Delaware River City Corp., is eager to see the trail extended at Pennypack on the Delaware park. On an otherwise miserable Sunday weather-wise, Borski, Fairmount Park Commission executive director Mark Focht and others took part in a fence-cutting ceremony to mark the […]
Northeast as a template: South American reps look to Pennypack on the Delaware
BY John Loftus; Assistant Editor NewsGleaner Publications Argentine public officials and investors who want to develop land around the Rio de la Plata in Buenos Aires for recreation and other uses came to Northeast Philadelphia last week to look over the Pennypack on the Delaware Park. Their stop in the Northeast was one of several […]
Walking the River to Pennypack Creek
Northeast News Gleaner Despite a forecast calling for chilly rains, Saturday, May 19 turned out to be a beautiful day for a walk along the riverfront. That’s exactly what more than 40 people did when they joined the Delaware River City Corporation (DRCC) for the second of their monthly “Walk the River” series Sarah M. Thorp, […]
Pennypack Park walk shows potential
PlanPhilly By Kellie Patrick The small ripples on the water’s surface sparkled in the springtime sunlight like the facets of a diamond. An air force of swallows darted over the coastline surface, their acrobatics yielding a lunch of insects for the arrow-shaped birds. The about 40 people who came to Pennypack Park to walk a […]
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The beds of Water-celery (Tape grass) continue to grow and spread at Lardner's point Park. Lot's of new habitat for fish and shellfish.
A great big thank you to all the volunteers who helped make Lardner's Point Park look wonderful yesterday! We removed (a whopping) 501 pounds of trash from the shoreline! WOW!
