Love Park Granite

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Love park granite.

The alm an outdoor beer garden and seating area. Love park officially known as john f. Using granite salvaged from the original love park a limited number of 3 3 inch bricks were fashioned as commemorative keepsakes just in time to celebrate the opening of the new love park. The beautiful keepsakes were cut from the original love park granite and are available for purchase at love park in the gift shop housed in the bright red restored shipping container located near the 16th arch side of the park.

The park is nicknamed love park for its reproduction of robert indiana s1970 lovesculpture which overlooks the plaza. It will only have the park logo not the sculpture image but it s still the original love park granite. A pop up gift shop featuring love park branded items including. The keepsakes made of reclaimed love park granite are still in legal limbo according to an email sent by the philadelphia department of parks recreation this week.

Love park granite keepsakes will finally be available flash forward to 2019 and those 3 by 3 inch granite blocks emblazoned with carvings of the love statue valued at 51 were finally in. This image of skaterboarders on the granite tiers in the old love park was taken by jonathan rentschler as part of a series of photographs about the park. Those images have been collected in a book called love by paradigm publishing. Kennedy plaza is a public park located in center city philadelphia pennsylvania.

We wanted to let people know. In the end she said love wins local news. More than a year after love park s greatest admirers lined up to buy a piece of philadelphia history the granite keepsakes the city once promised will finally be available for purchase for some. Will those officially approved activities be enough to make love park a success.

Much of the rest of the granite from the park s old basin meanwhile was earmarked for a potential new skatepark on the delaware river.