While new playground improvements are scheduled for Penn Treaty Park, the Fishtown waterfront park at Columbia and Delaware Avenue immediately north of Sugarhouse, the improvements are only part of a larger long-term redevelopment plan envisioned for the park where William Penn signed a treaty with the Lenni-Lenape Indians in the seventeenth century.
And while plans are moving forward to modernize the playground on the northern edge of the park, they will lack the kind of creativity and innovation suggested in the Penn Treaty Park Master Plan completed by Studio Bryan Hanes in 2009, in collaboration with the park’s friends group.
The playground
Another look
A few years ago, Hanes was contracted to embark on an early-action plan for a redevelopment of the park with the goal of installing quick fixes…