PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 A Philadelphia City Council committee gave its approval on Wednesday to a new tenant for the long-vacant Love Park building known as \u201cthe Saucer.\u201d<\/p>\n
The committee approved a contract with a group of partners that includes Rival Brothers Coffee, High Street Kitchen and Broad Street Brewing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m so excited that this is happening,\u201d said Councilmember Jaime Gauthier. \u201cHappy to see it moving forward and that we\u2019re bringing even more vibrancy into Love Park.\u201d<\/p>\n
Katie Burns-Kays, business development director of Philadelphia Parks and Recreation, said after two previous, unsuccessful tries to find an operator for the former Love Park Welcome Center, the city encouraged businesses to work together on a proposal.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were asking a lot \u2014 a day to night option,\u201d she said. \u201cThe same person who could do coffee might not be the same person who could do lunch, who could do happy hour.\u201d<\/p>\n
Broad Street Brewing has already been operating the beer garden on the Saucer grounds. \u201cThe owners were out there with their own power tools building a lot of what you see in the space right now,\u201d said Burns-Kays.<\/p>\n
The building itself has been vacant for 10 years, since it closed for the Love Park renovation. Burns-Kays said there may be some activity inside the circular, glass structure in conjunction with the Christmas Village.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey seem like they\u2019re going to be really wonderful partners,\u201d she said, \u201cand I\u2019m really optimistic and looking forward to another ten years of a really wonderful amenity to the park.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 A Philadelphia City Council committee gave its approval on Wednesday to a new tenant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[60,11869,69,71,70,79171],"class_list":["post-311511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-business","tag-love-park","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-parks-and-recreation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311511","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=311511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}