PHILADELPHIA(KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Philly has a new summer hangout in the city. <\/p>\n
Reading Terminal Market unveiled its new pop-up plaza just in time to brighten up the space, welcoming World Cup fans and America 250 celebrations. As everyone looked to the ceiling, colorful lights flooded Filbert Street outside of the Reading Terminal Market for the grand opening on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Annie Allman, CEO of Reading Terminal Market, said by 11 a.m. each morning, the transformation will be complete, thanks to an over $1 million investment in lights, a new paint job, and entertainment from Thursday to Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery day for the next 55 days, we\u2019re closing Filbert Street, turning it into a pedestrian plaza every morning,\u201d Allman said. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll have bar service, beverage service, and games.\u201d<\/p>\n
Like many who\u2019ve been to the market, 12-year-old Iliana and her mother are excited about the doubled seating capacity. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat will be so cool,\u201d Illiana said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s amazing, you cannot find a seat anywhere, it\u2019s completely packed,\u201d her mother added. <\/p>\n
John McNichol, President and CEO of the Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority, guarantees it will be a blast. <\/p>\n
\u201cCome here to the plaza,\u201d he said. \u201cI think you\u2019re going to have a great time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA(KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Philly has a new summer hangout in the city. Reading Terminal Market unveiled its new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[43048,94254,69,71,70,9812],"class_list":["post-215137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-filbert-street","tag-pedestrian-plaza","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-reading-terminal-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215137","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=215137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}