{"id":82688,"date":"2026-01-09T20:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T20:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/82688\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T20:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T20:15:07","slug":"city-officials-announce-anti-graffiti-highway-beautification-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/82688\/","title":{"rendered":"City officials announce anti-graffiti, highway beautification project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The City of Philadelphia is targeting some of its major roadways with a new beautification initiative.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mayor Cherelle Parker hosted a launch event for the new &#8220;Gateways to Philadelphia&#8221; initiative on Friday morning at City Hall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The program re-imagines Interstate highways and traffic corridors as symbolic gateways to the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The goal is to beautify those highways by removing graffiti, redesigning the landscape at seven sites across the city, and creating new America 250-themed murals.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mural Arts and the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society are both helping out with the project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Work is set to continue through May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is happening ahead of celebrations for America&#8217;s 250th birthday in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of Philadelphia is targeting some of its major roadways with a new beautification initiative. Mayor Cherelle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[41635,9537,8003,35226,41636,29269,36201,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-82688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-beautification","tag-cherelle-parker","tag-city-hall","tag-city-of-philadelphia","tag-interstate-highways","tag-mural-arts","tag-pennsylvania-horticultural-society","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82688","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=82688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}