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Parkway Council Foundation

March 7, 2011 State of the Parkway Meeting

Gail Harrity, Philadelphia Museum of Art (President) Dennis Wint, The Franklin Institute (Vice President) Rose Hagan, Friends Select School (Treasurer) Walter Korn, The Philadelphian (Secretary) Penny Bach, Fairmount Park Art Association Drew Becher, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society David Brigham, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine

Arts

Mike DiBerardinis, Parks and Recreation Sally Elk, Eastern State Penitentiary Happy Fernandez, Moore College of Art & Design Mark Focht, Fairmount Park System George Gephart, Academy of Natural Sciences Derek Gillman, Barnes Foundation Harry Gorstayn, Four Seasons Hotel Paul Levy, Center City District Siobhan Reardon, Free Library of Philadelphia

• Msgr. Arthur Rodgers, Cathedral Basilica
• f SS. Peter & Paul

Mark Silow, Fox Rothschild LLP

Board of Directors

• Ensure that the Parkway realizes its full

potential as:

– a vibrant cultural campus and destination – an economic force for the City and region

• Create a distinctive and welcoming

experience for all

– Residents, recreational and cultural visitors – Businesses and organizations

• Collaborate and develop plans for the

enhancement and promotion of the Parkway, working with:

– City Administration and City Council – Private and public organizations – Community organizations

Mission

Priorities

Programmatic Objectives

• Long-term Parkway

Enhancements

• Parkway Studies

– I ncreasing Cultural

Activity

– Eakins Oval & 25th/

PA Ave.

• 2017-2018 Parkway

Centennial

• Collaboration

Organizational Objectives

• Marketing I nitiatives

– Promote Parkway

Museums District: Ads, Brochure, Website, FB, Twitter & Flickr

• City State & Federal

Administration

• Fundraising

2100/2200 Blocks 1600/1700 Blocks Rodin Museum Landscape Sister Cities Park 1800 Block South Completed Projects Current Projects I-676 PennDOT Bridge Reconstructions Barnes

Enhancing the Benjamin Franklin Parkway

Philadelphia, PA March 2011

Partners:

• Philadelphia Parks &

Recreation

• Philadelphia Museum of

Art

• Pennsylvania

Horticultural Society

• Center City District

Funding - $20.4 million total investment City of Philadelphia - $7.2 million Commonwealth of Pennsylvania - $6.5 million (not incl. I-676 bridges) Private Foundations - $4.7 million (Dietrich, Knight, Pew & William Penn) Philadelphia Museum of Art - $2.0 million

• New President and CEO

George Gephart

• Bicentennial Committee
• Bizarre Beasts Past and

Present

• Spruce Up Museum
• Board
• Guided group tours

• Cathedral Basilica

Ambassadors Program

• Extensive

Renovations and Restoration

• Upcoming Sacred

Music Concerts

• $8.7 million in street,

monument & façade lighting completed

• $5.2 million in Parkway

signs completed

• $1.75 million

renovation of Aviator Park completed

• $2.3 million Café Cret &

park completed

• $4.6 million renovation
• f Sister Cities Park
• $50 renovation of

Dilworth Plaza planned

• Continued increases

in attendance

• Terror Behind the

Walls 2010

• Death Row

fundraising

• $2 Million roofing

project

• Hands-On History

• Parkway’s public spaces
• Seasonal plantings
• Fairmount Park Welcome

Center

• JFK Plaza arts and

entertainment

• Parkway special events
• Parkway public realm

improvements

• Streetscape improvements

Fairmount Park Art Association

• Museum Without Walls™:

AUDI O

• Sculpture Saturdays on the

Parkway

• Annual Outdoor Sculpture

Conservation

• World premiere installation

by artist Rafael Lozano- Hemmer

• Newly renovated ballroom

completed in January 2011

• Firepits – s’mores and

more!

• The Fountain Restaurant:

Philadelphia’s only AAA Five Diamond and Forbes Travel Guide Five Star Restaurant

• Best Massage in the City
• Facebook and Twitter

• 2011 Exhibition Line-Up

– Leonardo da Vinci’s

Workshop Exhibition: Now- May 22

– Mummies of the World

Exhibition: June 18-October 23

– CSI : The Experience

Exhibition: October 2- January 2

• The Philadelphia Science

Festival: April 15-28

• 2011 Franklin I nstitute Awards

Week: April 25-29

Year in Review

• Fels I nstitute Report
• Mayor’s Commission on

Literacy

• Free Library Hot Spots
• Philadelphia Book Festival

Looking Ahead

• Reenvisioning/ renovation
• f Parkway Central and

Shakespeare Park

• One Book, One Philadelphia
• National Summit on 21st

Century Literacy

• Dickens Bicentenary

At the Center of Learning in Center City

I nternational Studies Program

• I nterSession 2011: the Middle

East

• Total immersion in Middle East

studies, studied “real time”

• Public debate: I s Democracy

Necessary in the Middle East?

• I nterSession 2012: Central and

South America

School Expanded Footprint

• Leased critical space at 1700

Race St. building

• First Endowed

Professorship

• Literacy Through

Photography Philadelphia Project

• First MFA in Studio Art

Thesis Exhibition

• Visionary Woman Awards
• f 2011: honoring Signe

Wilkinson, Jane Walentas and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

PAFA

• Lenfest Plaza

Scheduled Opening October 1

• Paint Torch

Claes Oldenburg Commission

School of Fine Arts

• Selma Burke Scholarship
• Maguire Scholars Program
• PAFA Alumni Sales Gallery

Rendering courtesy of OLIN

Exhibition Highlights

• Anatomy/ Academy

Through April 17

• 110th Annual Student

Exhibition, May 13 – June 5

• Philadelphia

I nternational Flower Show

– “Springtime in Paris,” March 6-13 – $61 million economic impact on the region

• Plant One Million
• City Harvest
• Civic Spaces

– Rodin Museum – Logan Square

Upcoming Exhibitions

• Paris Through the Window, Marc Chagall and His Circle
• Roberto Capucci, Art into Fashion
• Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus
• Van Gogh Up Close

Continued Progress on the Museum’s Master Plan

• 2007 – Perelman Building opens
• 2009 – Exterior renovations to the Main Building and

construction of the Parking Garage and Sculpture Garden complete

• 2010 – Art Handling Facility Project, designed by

Frank Gehry

• 2011 – Renovation and expansion with Gehry Partners

2010 – Rodin Museum Renovations and Garden Rejuvenation Completion in Spring 2011

The Philadelphian

• New Emergency Generator

Coverage being expanded to include Hallway Lighting and Signage

• Air-conditioning Units being

installed in Meeting Rooms and several commercial establishments.

• Corridor Re-decoration
• Multiyear Roof Top

Mechanical Plant Replacement

• Going Green emphasis

continues

Q & A

Fairmount Civic Association

• Promote development in our

commercial corridors and support partnerships to benefit the community.

• Proactively work with City housing

divisions encouraging rehab/ improvement in residential stock.

• Continue to work with neighborhood

Police Districts to promote a safe and secure neighborhood.

• Create opportunities and activities to

engage the neighborhood as a whole promoting good will.

• Continue to improve synergy with the

Parkway institutions including creating a shared voice on common interests.

Cleaning & Greening

• Street cleaning along West Girard Avenue
• Resident clean up days
• Community garden improvements
• Harper Street improvements
• Fairmount Avenue Streetscape Projects

Public Art

• West Girard Gateway Mural (25th

& Girard)

• Fairmount Gateway Mural (24st

& Fairmount)

• Community Painted Trash Cans!

Community Building

• Fairmount Fling
• Fairmount Arts Crawl
• Art + Soul Food

Business Support

• Mugshots
• n Girard
• Façade Improvement Grants
• Business retention and attraction
• Support for FAB and WGBA
• New Website for Residents & Visitors

Fairmount Community Development Corporation

Spring Garden Civic Association & Spring Garden CDC

Priorities:

• a vibrant, ethnically and economically diverse

community

• preservation of aesthetics, livability, historical

integrity

• continue revitalization, blight eradication
• plant/maintain trees, gardens, green spaces; safe,

attractive recreation areas

• eradicate poverty, crime and the effects
• keep the area trash-and-graffiti-free

Current Projects:

• improvements, Roberto Clemente Playground
• continue comm./res. revitalization, incl. E. end

Fairmount Ave.

• preserve our neighborhood history
• continue planting trees, flowers, gardens
• team of sweepers, area cleanliness programs
• jobs/job training, econ. advancement opps.
• youth programs (art, camp, educ., rec., after-

school)

• wide array of social services programs

• Parkway events and their

impact

• Advocacy for aesthetic

excellence

• Support of way finding,

signage, and greening efforts

• Pedestrian and vehicular

balance

• I mproved transportation and

parking

• Development on or near the

Parkway; zoning issues

• Collaborative approach to the

homeless

Parkway Council & Neighbors’ Collective Issues

Q & A