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Parkway Council Foundation

March 5, 2012 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

• f the Fine Arts

Yvonne Clayton, Hangley Aronchick Mike DiBerardinis, Phila. Parks and Recreation Sally Elk, Eastern State Penitentiary Happy Fernandez, Moore College of Art & Design Mark Focht, Phila. Parks and Recreation 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

• Accessibility & Flow
• Increased Cultural Activity
• 2017-2018 Parkway

Centennial

• Collaboration

Organizational Objectives

• City State & Federal

Administration

• Fundraising
• Marketing Initiatives

• The Academy celebrates its

Bicentennial

• Bicentennial Opening

Weekend

• Monthly family-themed

programs

• Behind the Scenes at the

Academy

• A Glorious Enterprise

Book Launch and Signing

• Opening May 19th
• 60-hour free celebration
• ver Memorial Day

weekend

• Regular public hours

begin May 30

• Ensemble: Albert C.

Barnes and the Experiment in Education

• 2012 Preservation

Achievement Grand Jury Award

• Second Season of

Concerts at the Cathedral Basilica

• Cathedral Basilica

Ambassadors Program

• $8.7 million in street,

monument & façade lighting completed

• $1.5 million in pedestrian

access to Logan Circle completed

• $600,000 million in Parkway

interpretive signs completed

• $1.75 million renovation of

Aviator Park completed

• $2.3 million Café Cret &

Three Parkway Park completed

• $4.6 million renovation of

Sister Cities Park

• $50 million renovation of

Dilworth Plaza under construction

• Attendance has tripled in

past six years

• New Master Plan
• Rebuilding ticketing

spaces/museum store

• Opening new spaces in

2012 for visitors

• Four new artist

installations for 2012

• New “Searchlight Series”

Fairmount Park Art Association

• World Premiere of “Open

Air” by artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

• “Site Seeing: Rediscover

Public Art this Spring”

• Annual Outdoor Sculpture

Conservation

• Phase Two of Museum

Without Walls™: AUDIO

• The Fountain

Restaurant’s unique status in Philadelphia

• The Spa at Four

Seasons’s new treatments

• The new Philly Beer

Loft

• Glass sculptures in

The Fountain Restaurant

• 2012 Exhibition Line-Up

– Design Zone – Giant Mysterious Dinosaurs – Dead Sea Scrolls – Titanic

• The 2012 Philadelphia Science

Festival

• 2012 Franklin Institute Awards

Week

• Building Expansion

Year in Review

• Kicked off Year of Dickens
• 10th anniversary of One Book,

One Philadelphia

• E-reader pilot program
• Shakespeare Park
• Philbrick Hall

Looking Ahead

• Parkway Central renovation
• Public Library Association

Conference

• Summer Reading
• Dickens Grand Finale

At the Center of Learning in Center City

• Growth of international

student population

• 325th anniversary celebration

planning

• Capital Campaign: Elevating

the Core

• Albert Barnes and the Art of

Collecting

• New Foundation

Curriculum iPad partnership

• Learning Through

Photography Project

• MOOREcycle
• Event honoring

Happy Fernandez

• New President
• Visionary Woman Awards

PAFA

• Lenfest Plaza
• PAFA Alumni Sales

Gallery

School of Fine Arts

• Selma Burke Scholarship
• Maguire Scholars Program
• Visiting Artists Lecture Series

Rendering courtesy of OLIN

Exhibition Highlights

• Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit
• 111th Annual Student Exhibition

Philadelphia International Flower Show

– “Hawaii: Islands of Aloha,” March 4-11 – $61 million economic impact

City Harvest Plant One Million Civic Spaces

– Rodin Museum – Pop-Up on Logan Square

Exhibitions

• Van Gogh Up Close
• Zoe Strauss: Ten Years
• Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia
• Shipwreck! Winslow Homer and The Life Line

Continued Progress on the Museum’s Master Plan

• 2007 – Perelman Building
• 2009 – Exterior renovations, Parking Garage &

Sculpture Garden

• 2012 – Art Handling Facility Project
• 2012 & beyond – Renovation & expansion with

Gehry Partners

Rodin Museum and Garden Reopens July 2012

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

Center

• JFK Plaza arts and

entertainment

• Parkway special events
• Parkway public realm

improvements

• Streetscape improvements

The Philadelphian

• Philadelphia Area

Green Condo and Apartment Initiative

• Extensive Physical

Upgrades

Parkway Updates

Mike DiBerardinis

• Parkway Homeless

Issues

• Other Parkway

Initiatives Alan Greenberger

• Future Use of Family

Court Building

@1801 Vine St.

Parkway Updates

Steve Buckley

• Parkway Area Streets

Projects Ahmad Corbitt

• Philadelphia Mormon

Temple @1739 Vine St.

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.

Fairmount Community Development Corporation

Commercial & Residential Redevelopment

• 8 storefront facades improved in 2011.
• 23 new businesses, since 2011, filling vacant and blighted buildings

along Fairmount & Girard Avenues, creating or sustaining approximately 185 jobs (full and part time).

• Completed Phase II of Vital Neighborhoods Initiative (see Before

& After Photos)

• Completed the community driven Brewerytown Neighborhood

Plan in partnership with Greater Brewerytown CDC. A Clean & Green Community

• Greening efforts including the planting of over 200 trees and

distribution of over 1,000 recycling bins.

• Beautification of pocket park Veterans Memorial Park, 31st and

Girard

• Kicking off Textile Recycling Pick-Up and Drop-Off (Starts March

2012) An Enhanced Quality of Life

• Over

2,000 hours

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after-school and weekend youth programming made available to students at Bache-Martin Elementary.

• Development of the Young Friends of Fairmount group with

mission of Social, Sports, Service.

• “Dream Garden” – Community Expression Project, MLK Day of

Service Project at Girard College (see Photos)

BEFORE AFTER

Spring Garden Civic Association & Spring Garden CDC

Priorities:

• A vibrant, flourishing, ethnically and economically

diverse community

• A decent quality of life for all of our residents
• Elimination of the elements, and attitudes, that erode
• ur residents’ (and City’s) quality of life
• Trees, green spaces, cleanliness
• Preserve the community’s history/aesthetics

Current Projects:

• Use self-help and zero-tolerance to effect change
• Dramatic improvements to Roberto Clemente

Playground, and its maintenance/operations

• A team of sweepers, community war on trash
• Police activity to curb drugs, crime
• Broad array of social services; jobs and job training;

youth programs

• Plant and care for trees, flowering bulbs
• Constant battle for appropriate economic

development/ improvements/preservation

Wrap Up