Issue #13: October 15, 2015

Philadelphia’s new Pier 68 Park opens on revitalized Delaware riverfront

Stand on the service road east of South Philadelphia’s Walmart, and you stand at the intersection of the Delaware River waterfront’s past and future.

Time was if you tried to find the river beyond the Pier 70 shopping center, you’d discover a waterfront blocked by chain link fence but no stranger to fishermen, drowned shopping carts, and feral cats. Today this part of the waterfront beckons another look.