Hawthorne Neighborhood in Philadelphia to Get New Park in Spring 2012

Hawthorne Neighborhood in Philadelphia to Get New Park in Spring 2012.

Hot off the presses at NakedPhilly Hawthorne Park will open in Spring of 2012.  For those of you who aren’t keeping up with the ever changing Center City neighborhood landscape, Hawthorne is a neighborhood in Center City that is located between Broad Street and 11th Street, and extends from South Street to Washington Avenue.  Hawthorne is sandwiched between Bella Vista on the East and Graduate Hospital on the West.  See a map of the Hawthorne neighborhood below.

Here’s what Wikipedia has to say about Hawthorne:

The most prominent landmark in the neighborhood was Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza, a public housing high-rise complex at 13th and Fitzwater Street, originally called Hawthorne Square. The four MLK towers were imploded on October 17, 1999, and have been slowly replaced with a mix of low-rise public housing, based on New Urbanism ideas, thanks to the HOPE VI program.Much of Hawthorne is currently being renovated. Old homes are being renovated with only the exterior remaining. Other properties that were commercial are being (or have been) demolished and new town homes have replaced them. Approximately 10 new homes a year for the past 2 years, the current tax abatement and home with parking are what are attracting new residents.These new homes as exclusive and at the upper range of the Philadelphia real-estate market, costing about 720,000 dollars; the new residents are in a much higher income bracket the un-renovated existing community. The Nathaniel Hawthorne elementary school has been converted in condominiums’ which was completed in 2011. The High School for the Creative and Performing Arts is also located in Hawthorne, in the former Ridgway Library. The ornate building dates to 1878 and is modeled after the Parthenon.

And finally here are some renderings of what Hawthorne Park will look like – again thanks to NakedPhilly.com

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