Open Space
Garden Court Community Association
Garden Court approached the Collaborative to refresh its neighborhood community garden and tennis courts. Reconfiguring garden plots will enable more residents to garden. A new, pedestrian-only entrance and a refurbished gathering space with pergola, picnic tables, Adirondack chairs, string lights and container plantings will create a stronger sense of welcome. This improvement project will also offer Philadelphia Water an opportunity to install a green stormwater management system.
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Benches, picnic tables, and Adirondack chairs will offer lots of options for hanging out
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The existing layout of the community garden and tennis courts
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Rainwater now flows across asphalt paving in the garden area to trench drains in the tennis courts
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In the future, subsurface stormwater storage beneath the tennis courts will collect runoff from the site
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The conceptual design doubles the number of garden plots to forty, including four accessible plots.
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The existing gathering space will be enhanced and remain in the midst of the garden plots
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A new pedestrian-only entry framed by communal fruit trees
