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As Philadelphia advances streetscape plan for Spring Garden, historic buildings fall to neglect Inga Saffron, The Philadelphia Inquirer © TIM TAI/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS Spring Garden is one of several dreary, overly wide crosstown streets in Philadelphia that need improvement. What if Spring Garden Street actually lived up to its name? Instead of an 80-foot-wide expanse that cuts a dreary and dangerous furrow across Philadelphia’s midsection, what if there were sidewalks edged with rain gardens, tree-shaded bike lanes, and planted medians? What if the vehicular mos...
WHYY By An aerial view of the derelict Spring Garden Station that was once part of the Reading Railroad. (Courtesy of Arts & Crafts Holdings) Two private groups have filed a petition seeking to take legal stewardship over an abandoned train station along the Reading Viaduct, a decrepit former rail line that cuts through the heart of gentrifying neighborhoods north of Center City and has long been eyed for an elevated park. Arts & Crafts Holdings, a real estate development company, and nonprofit Scioli Turco filed a petition last week in Philadelphia’s Court of Common Pleas seeking conservat...