Local media has turned it’s attention to development in Northwest Philadelphia’s Germantown neighborhood this week as journalists reported on the fate of the historic YWCA building. Here’s my letter to The Inquirer in response to architecture critic Inga Saffron’s take in her weekly column.
A few scenes of snowy W Rockland Street from the third-floor window of our house.
This May we began compiling a monthly crime alert for W Rockland Street after noticing an uptick in robberies, burglaries and theft nearby. We attend the monthly 39th District
Women’s Community Revitalization Project (WCRP) has proposed building 35 new affordable town homes on vacant woodsy land in East Germantown. Check out the design plans and learn about the tenant selection process.
Learn about a new collaborative public art project being created in the large vacant lot at the corner of W Rockland and Greene Streets. The W Rockland Street Project has teamed up with the City of Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Program to activate and beautify the space with a mural, a community bulletin board, new plants, and more. The project will be completed during the summer months of 2015. Learn how you can get involved.
The W Rockland St Project has launched a crowdsourced fundraising campaign to remove a sick tree from the vacant lot turned community garden that’s threatening the 2014 growing season and neighborhood gathering space.
Sidewalk gardens and planters are a motivating tool against blight, help to establish neighborhood identity and set a beautiful curbside example. W Rockland St has over 15 planters lining the sidewalk. Learn how to make it happen on your block.
Picking up trash can actually be fun. Armed with a list of commonly littered items from cigarette butts to fast food packaging, kids collect and learn about the trash tossed aside in our community. Download our checklist and plan your own litter scavenger hunt.
The W Rockland St Project 