Love Park Granite

Kennedy plaza is a public park located in center city philadelphia pennsylvania.

Love park granite.

Candles from project home s social enterprise program. The confusion over the rights to the love image with its. The alm an outdoor beer garden and seating area. Using granite salvaged from the original love park a limited number of 3 3 inch bricks were fashioned as commemorative keepsakes just in time to celebrate the opening of the new love park.

Those images have been collected in a book called love by paradigm publishing. Love park granite keepsakes will finally be available flash forward to 2019 and those 3 by 3 inch granite blocks emblazoned with carvings of the love statue valued at 51 were finally in. Love park officially known as john f. Much of the rest of the granite from the park s old basin meanwhile was earmarked for a potential new skatepark on the delaware river.

In the end she said love wins local news. It will only have the park logo not the sculpture image but it s still the original love park granite. Each brick features an engraved design similar to the famous sculpture love by robert indiana which will return to the park in early 2018. The keepsakes made of reclaimed love park granite are still in legal limbo according to an email sent by the philadelphia department of parks recreation this week.

A pop up gift shop featuring love park branded items including. This image of skaterboarders on the granite tiers in the old love park was taken by jonathan rentschler as part of a series of photographs about the park. The park is nicknamed love park for its reproduction of robert indiana s1970 lovesculpture which overlooks the plaza. More than a year after love park s greatest admirers lined up to buy a piece of philadelphia history the granite keepsakes the city once promised will finally be available for purchase for some.

Limited edition keepsakes made from original love park granite.