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State Hands Out $23M for Conservation

HARRISBURG, PA-Under the Growing Greener II initiative, 242 projects across the state obtain grants. Four in Philadelphia County include renovation of the Museum of Art landscaping and a Navy Yard greenway trail.

By Marita Thomas | Updated on July 06, 2006

HARRISBURG, PA-Gov. Ed Rendell has dipped into the $625-million Growing Greener II, voter-approved bond issue to award an aggregate of $23 million to 242 different recreation and conservation projects all across the state. The recipients in this round were culled from 436 applications seeking more than $69 million.

Those chosen fund 50 trails, 49 planning projects for regional efforts, 53 sports courts and fields, and 59 playgrounds. Philadelphia County is the largest beneficiary with an aggregate of approximately $1.6 million split among four entities. Of those, the city itself is granted $600,000 for the renovation and further development of three parks: Cedar, Pleasant Hill and Three Bears, a children’s park in Society Hill. This represents the largest single grant of all 242.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is granted $250,000 for renovation of its landscape. Another $300,000 is granted to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development for the Greenway trail through the Navy Yard, and the Schuylkill River Development Corp. obtained $400,000 for development of the Tidal Schuylkill River Trail between the University Avenue and Grays Ferry bridges.

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