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DCNR honors Lardner’s Point Park with Green Park Award
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…
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Lovely Lardner’s Point Park
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…
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Connecting at the Water’s Edge
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…
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Lardner’s Point: New city park is a plus for nature, too
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…
