Singing Fountain Park Redesign Concepts Revealed

Concepts for an expanded park were presented at EPX Civic’s virtual monthly meeting. Check out the renderings! By Sequoia Medley for the Passyunk Post Bryan Fenstermaker, Executive Director of the Passyunk Avenue Revitalization Corporation (PARC), discussed the results of last

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Q & A: Singing Fountain Restoration and Reimagination Project

Your input can help reshape the Singing Fountain for the future. The Passyunk Avenue Revitalization Corporation (PARC) is seeking community input about the Singing Fountain park at the intersection of East Passyunk Avenue, 11th, and Tasker Streets. Read this Q

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Deck the Avenue Returns: 13 things you should know

The holidays bring South Philly together on East Passyunk Avenue with a tree lighting, photos with Santa, QOTA, story times, and much more! East Passyunk Avenue Business Improvement District (EPABID) and Passyunk Avenue Revitalization Corporation (PARC) are again gearing up

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Luke Palladino files for bankruptcy. What’s next for Palladino’s on Passyunk?

Earlier this summer Luke Palladino announced that renovations would be coming to his East Passyunk Avenue restaurant, with a planned reopening date of September 9. What Palladino didn’t say was that the reason for the closure was due to back rent,

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New Executive Director named for Passyunk Avenue Revitalization Corporation

In November we found out that Passyunk Avenue Revitalization Corporation‘s Executive Director would be stepping down in 2016. Since Sam Sherman joined PARC in 2011, he has worked on development projects to create a better East Passyunk Avenue, with more than

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Passyunk Avenue Revitalization Corporation’s Executive Director resigning in 2016

News broke yesterday that Sam Sherman, the Executive Director for Passyunk Avenue Revitalization Corporation, is stepping down in 2016. In his five years in this position, Sherman and PARC have helped transform East Passyunk Avenue, bringing the street to become

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