Open Space

New Kensington Community Development Corporation

Two intersections along Frankford Avenue serve as gateways into the Lehigh-Somerset neighborhood. The Collaborative worked with Somerset Neighbors for Better Living through New Kensington CDC on a conceptual plan to enliven the intersections with street trees and planting beds fed by stormwater, sidewalk bump-outs, and street murals of twining ivy. Welcome signs and a bold wall-and-road mural turn a railway viaduct into a neighborhood connector.