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Infrastructure · Under construction

Rebuild: Recreation, Parks, Libraries

Citywide

Citywide capital program funded by the sugary drink tax. ~$500M reinvestment across 60+ rec centers, parks, and libraries. Pool rebuilds, branch library renovations, playground replacements.

Council district
District 5
Neighborhood
Citywide
Funding source
Philadelphia Beverage Tax + William Penn Foundation
Funding amount
$500,000,000
Start date
2017-06-01
Completion
2027-12-31
First seen in feed
5/16/2026
Your council representative
Jeffery Young, Jr.
District 5 · D
215-686-3438
City Hall Room 577
900 projects in this district
4828 housing units approved
Registered Community Organization
Center City Residents Association (CCRA)
The RCO that gets formal notice of zoning changes here. Going to them first is how most organizing on a project starts.
Contact: Travis Oliver
2155466719
Meets: BEX Meeting Space, 2005 Market St and via Zoom
Neighborhood context (census tract 000500)
Median income
$69,267
Renter occupied
90.70%
Rent burdened
42.40%
(of renters, 30%+ of income)
Population
3,057
ACS 5-year 2022

Nearby projects

within 400m walk

Displacement signal

L&I demolition permits, last 3 yrs, within 400m

Philly doesn't publish eviction filings, so this uses demolition permits as the closest proxy for housing stock loss in the immediate area. 3 permits found.

1525 CHERRY ST2026-05-11
1523 CHERRY ST2026-05-11
1527 CHERRY ST2026-04-07
Data source · last refreshed 5/16/2026, 5:36:40 PM
Major Capital Infrastructure Projects
City of Philadelphia + partners

Hand-curated, not a live feed. The Office of the Director of Finance does publish the six-year Capital Improvement Program PDF, but there's no machine-readable feed; the dataset listed on OpenDataPhilly returns 404. Refreshed manually when the CIP is updated (annual budget cycle). Funding amounts are project lifetime totals, not annual spend. Locations are approximated for citywide programs.