Merele Trares, who is enrolled in a water color class through Fleisher Art Memorial, takes a pause while painting to make a photo with her phone at FDR Park last year.A Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas judge won’t hear a lawsuit in Orphans’ Court that aimed to put a stop to a proposed $250 million overhaul of South Philadelphia’s FDR Park.
During the hearing, however, Woods-Skipper asked just how the park would be radically changed if the city’s plans weren’t calling for the sale or lease of land. “We are not putting a coal plant down there, this is still parkland,” said Shuey, emphasizing that the lawsuit is coming two years after the city began renovation work and five years after the city’s master plan was unveiled.
Still, critics have argued that athletic fields have been given too much importance in FDR Park’s current design plans. They take issue with the hundreds of trees that will have to be cut down to make room for these recreational spaces, are skeptical of city claims that they will be replaced with a canopy of the same quality, and are worried that the city can’t guarantee the athletic fields it plans to install will remain free of PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals.
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