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DRCC presents Bridesburg park updates to community at BCAA monthly meeting. Star News | By Melissa Komar Neither ice nor snow nor the cold could keep the Bridesburg Community Action Alliance from holding its monthly meeting last Wednesday. However, the weather did depress turnout and keep some speakers from appearing. One speaker who did show up…

Spoke Magazine | By Bradley Maul Six months into his first term as mayor, on a stage inside the Independence Seaport Museum, Michael Nutter gave his blessings to a plan that would change the course of the Delaware River waterfront. In endorsing the “Master Plan for the Central Delaware,” he applauded the relaunch of the…

Newsletter of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources It was late November 2011 when DCNR officials and others plunged shovels into a ceremonial groundbreaking plot, marking the start of a riverfront improvement project in Philadelphia’ s historic Tacony section. Then the message was one of hope, promise and looking to the future. Just about…

PlanPhilly Lardner’s Point Park, a new public space along the Delaware River just below the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge, opened in May bringing a softer green edge to the waterfront. The park, advanced by the Delaware River City Corporation, is a welcome new riverfront amenity, but it’s also a significant ecological restoration project (funded in part as remediation after…

The EPA Blog | by Maryann Helferty Late on a warm spring afternoon a few weeks ago, I walked along a newly restored tidal wetland and gazed at the young sedge grasses and arrowhead plants.  The line, “If you build it they will come” from the movie Field of Dreamspassed through my mind.  Here at Lardner’s…

Philadelphia Inquirer | By Sandy Bauers Ever since the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge was built in 1928, a four-acre chunk of riverfront that served as a ferry terminal has lain vacant. Trash has piled up, and invasive species have taken over. In 2004, the site was bathed with an unsavory brew of oil that spilled from the…