The new park will turn a vacant, one-acre pier just south of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge into a vibrant public space with trees, a promenade, a lawn, and a terrace — all with spectacular river views. (Images courtesy Delaware River Waterfront Corporation)
by Emily Steinberg
In the cold dim light of December it's hard to visualize but, coming soon, in Spring 2011, The Race Street Pier will make it's reimagined debut as a park on Philadelphia's Delaware Waterfront. The new green space being built on the vacant Pier 11 and located at the base of Race Street just south of the Ben Franklin Bridge, is being designed by James Corner Field Operations, the firm who created the luscious High Line Park in New York City. The new pier park fits in nicely with the City's Parks and Recreation Department plan Green 2015.
The redesigned Race Street Pier is an early action project that is part of the Penn Praxis Plan Civic Vision for the Central Delaware Waterfront and the first public space to be built by the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation. It will be a hugely welcome addition to the rebirth of Philadelphia's Delaware Waterfront.
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