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Philly residents and activists gathered in FDR Park Monday morning to criticize the city and the Fairmount Park Conservancy for the cutting of what it calls "heritage trees" valued for their ...
City spokesperson Lauren Cox told FOX Business that the Philadelphia Department of Parks & Recreation received a payment of $11,025 on Nov. 17, reflecting a pre-event estimate given to the campaign.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) Park (originally named League Island Park) is a park located along the Delaware River in the southernmost point of South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, comprising some 348 acres (1.41 km 2), about 125 acres (0.51 km 2) of buildings, roadways, pathways for walking, landscaped architecture, and a variety of picnic and recreation areas placed within about 77 acres ...
At both ends of the bridge there will be an esplanade run under the bridge and along the Anacostia River as well as a community park. [14] The bridge is the biggest public works project in the history of the District of Columbia, [21] [22] and employed more than 1,300 workers at the height of construction. [14]
The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) was a program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, building on the Hoover administration's Emergency Relief and Construction Act. It was replaced in 1935 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
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Hurricane Sandy flooded the East River Park and the Lower East Side in 2012 prompting city officials to consider flood mitigation plans that would alter the park. [6] In June 2013, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) secretary Shaun Donovan launched Rebuild by Design, a competition which called for experts to develop solutions for neighborhoods disproportionately impacted by ...
A construction project in Grand Rapids, Michigan, that seemed fairly straightforward went awry in the best way possible earlier this month when workers digging a culvert discovered the ancient ...