Our sidewalks and streets are the underlying frameworks for community, culture, and what we stand for. They are a stage for vitality to occur; they express our priorities and foster safe and accessible passage. They host planned and spontaneous interactions for residents to meet and gather, for business to spill out onto, and for visitors to enjoy.

The Vision Plan establishes a new gateway to the neighborhood and prioritizes the reduction of a two-lane city street into a single vehicular lane with a protected bike lane to expand the public space.

Shifting space from vehicles to people is the paradigm that enables the creation of an 80,000-square-foot living street to create community meeting space, parks, pavilions, and a community art program as the drivers for a long-term stewardship plan. Introducing more than 150 new canopy trees with significant understory planting brings biodiversity to one of Philadelphia's least green neighborhoods. The plan centers around transforming a two-block area, where the street is widest and shade is most desired—into an urban park called the "Market Green." The plan doubles the area of public space in the neighborhood, enhancing safety as well as a new foreground for residents, businesses, and visitors to come together, building community and shared prosperity.

(Project completed while at KieranTimberlake and in collaboration with Port Urbanisim)