Gateways to Philadelphia projects<\/a>. It\u2019s a mural called \u201cOne Philly, United City, with Love.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201c[It\u2019s] just in time for our America 250, but this project is designated as one of Mayor Parker\u2019s initiatives to make Philadelphia one of the safest, cleanest and greenest big cities in the nation,\u201d said Williams.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis investment will last long after 2026 is over,\u201d proclaimed Parker.<\/p>\n
According to Williams, highways and gateways play a big part in the Gateways projects, aimed at beautifying the city with public art and landscaping projects while removing graffiti. There are seven key locations around the city, including the 26th Street Gateway at Penrose Avenue, the South Street Bridge, 30th Street Station and interchanges between the Schuylkill and Vine Street Expressways. There are also over 96,000 plant and floral displays planned.<\/p>\n
The entire multimillion dollar gateway project spans more than 245 neighborhoods, with millions of dollars in funding from the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Funders Collective. Williams described the largest mural as Philly\u2019s \u201cSistine Chapel.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s on the CSX wall, and it has all of the Philadelphia icons,\u201d he said, \u201cthe Liberty Bell, the Ben Franklin Bridge. All of these things are what makes Philadelphia great.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Philadelphia has a series of new murals stretching across the city, meant to greet…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4000,8865,752,85911,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-203122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-america-250","tag-mural-arts-philadelphia","tag-murals","tag-office-of-clean-and-green-initiatives","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}