{"id":300512,"date":"2026-10-06T01:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T01:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/300512\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T01:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T01:40:08","slug":"some-big-improvements-are-coming-to-lemon-hill-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/300512\/","title":{"rendered":"Some big improvements are coming to Lemon Hill Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Lemon Hill saw an insane amount of foot traffic this summer because of the FIFA Fan Fest. Now, the city is saying \u201cthank you\u201d by improving the park.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor 39 days, Philadelphia welcomed the world to this park, with more than 500,000 people,\u201d said Mayor Cherelle Parker. <\/p>\n<p>In return for the surrounding community putting up with the Fan Fest takeover, the city will build a 43,500-square-foot playground, an adult fitness area, and two picnic pavilions. More than 100 trees will also be planted \u2014 the first of which officials broke ground for on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Nissa Eisenberg with Lemon Hill Neighbors Association said, like an oak tree, the investment needs to be nurtured.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t let this be a once-in-a-generation project. We also want to advocate for Parks and Rec to be sustainably funded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There will also be updates to existing infrastructure at Lemon Hill. The first phase of this plan was completed ahead of the World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Lemon Hill saw an insane amount of foot traffic this summer because of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[83493,2234,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-300512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-fifa-fan-festival","tag-lemon-hill","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300512","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=300512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}