Anita Garner, a local veteran, practices a first pitch with the Phillie Phanatic. Garner received recognition from the Phillies for her service at a ceremony at the Navy Yard.

Phillies Honor Local Veteran with Ceremony at the Navy Yard

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Anita Garner, a local veteran, practices a first pitch with the Phillie Phanatic. Garner received recognition from the Phillies for her service at a ceremony at the Navy Yard.

Anita Garner, a local veteran, practices a first pitch with the Phillie Phanatic. Garner received recognition from the Phillies for her service at a ceremony at the Navy Yard.

The Philadelphia Phillies honored a local veteran’s service during a ceremony May 18 on the Marine Parade Grounds at the Navy Yard.

Anita Garner, a Navy veteran, arrived to a crowd of wave-flagging supporters completely surprised by the event – she thought she was arriving to go to a meeting.

Garner served during Desert Shield/Desert Storm as a hospital corpsman and is now a nurse practitioner in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey. Service to her country and community runs in her family as her family has proudly served in several branches of our military for generations.

The Phillies chose to honor Garner for her military service and her continued service with veteran’s organizations, particularly Team Foster. Team Foster fights for the unmet needs of injured and disabled veterans by bringing together civilians, veterans and highly trained service dogs.

During the ceremony, she was greeted by Phillies Ambassador Scott Palmer and Nick Liermann (founder and executive director of Team Foster – whose motto is “No Hero Left Behind”). Liermann nominated Garner for her dedication to the veteran community.

Garner also received a personalized jersey from the Phillies for when she throws out the first pitch at the Phillies Salute to Service Night. To prepare her for the first pitch, she got to have a practice throw with the Phillie Phanatic.

Garner was also presented with a challenge coin from The Chapel of the Four Chaplains to honor her selfless service.

The Phillie Phanatic cruises across the Marine Parade Grounds during a ceremony honoring a local veteran.

The Phillie Phanatic cruises across the Marine Parade Grounds during a ceremony honoring a local veteran.

Bill Kaemmer, executive director of The Chapel of the Four Chaplains, presents Anita Garner, a local veteran, with a certificate and challenge coin during a ceremony at the Navy Yard honoring Garner for her service.

Bill Kaemmer, executive director of The Chapel of the Four Chaplains, presents Anita Garner, a local veteran, with a certificate and challenge coin during a ceremony at the Navy Yard honoring Garner for her service.

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Navy Yard Unveils Newest Public Art Project

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ARTIST CREATES “GREETINGS FROM THE MIRAGE”, A FLAMBOYANT DESERT LANDSCAPE VISITORS CAN WALK THROUGH AT THE NAVY YARD

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Group X and PIDC announced its latest public art installation at the Navy Yard, Greetings From The Mirage (#NavyYardMirage), a domed sculptural art installation that will transport you to a surrealist soft desert created by sculpture artist Matty Geez. Greetings From The Mirage is located in the grassy field found at 11th Street and Kitty Hawk Avenue at the Navy Yard. Greetings From The Mirage features an artist’s vision of a desert landscape made with over a dozen larger-than-life-sized cacti created from colorful and soft textiles, which all sit inside a 20’ x 36’ dome. Following 11 months of planning and creation and an eight-day installation period, the exhibit is open to the public now through June 18th, 2023. The Navy Yard welcomes visitors from sun up to sun down, Monday through Sunday. This artwork is free for all to view and experience, and it requires no ticket or reservation.

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“We can’t wait for Philadelphians and people from all around the region to come see this wholly original work of public art from Matty Geez,” says Group X. “Each of the projects we curate for the Navy Yard is different, and with this project we’re thrilled to offer something that will transport visitors into a surrealist mirage of a desert land. Colorful, bold, and soft, it’s less a public art sculpture and more like walking into a painting.”

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Working in the realm of sculpture, Matty Geez’s pieces are three dimensional but maintain a kinship to two-dimensional works. His sculptures verge on the edge of fantastic, flamboyant and oversaturated, while holding onto familiar botanical shapes. Juxtaposition of hard and soft along with the use of color explores gender identities and breaking the binary that exists in our current world.

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With the support of Group X, Matty has created an entirely new body of work that has crash landed onto the Navy Yard for Spring 2023. These are some of his largest sculptures to date, and are meant to envelope and engage viewers in an entirely surreal environment.

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“We are really excited to continue our partnership with Group X for another project,” said Kate McNamara, PIDC’s Senior Vice President at the Navy Yard. “Our public art program seeks to deliver unique projects that showcase local, national, and global artists to create long-lasting impressions on the Philadelphia community. This year’s installation, Mirage by Matty Geez, will do just that – it’s a truly incredible piece.”

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This is the sixth collaborative public art partnership between Group X, a group of Philadelphia-based artists, curators, and organizers whose members are anonymous, and the Navy Yard, the “coolest shipyard in America” and leading model for repurposed military base where 15,000 employees work at 150 companies, surrounded by iconic parks, Complete Streets, and a riverfront greenway.

The Navy Yard and Group X welcome visitors of all abilities. Like the previous exhibits, this exhibit is outdoors and is accessible by wheelchair. The Navy Yard is open from sunrise to sunset and is accessible via car, bike, Indego bikeshare, on foot, and Navy Yard Transit.

About Group X
Group X believes in art and happiness. We curate and create public art projects. Let your imagination run wild with us. www.groupxprojects.com

About the Navy Yard 
Since acquiring the 1,200-acre former naval shipyard from the federal government in 2000, PIDC, Philadelphia’s public-private economic development corporation and master developer of the Philadelphia Navy Yard, has led the planning, development, and operation of the Navy Yard PIDC’s mission—to spur investment, support business growth, and foster developments that create jobs, revitalize neighborhoods, and drive growth to every corner of Philadelphia—strongly informs the strategy for the Navy Yard, which focuses on creating an environment that drives employment, innovation, and production.

The Navy Yard is a growing community of 15,000 employees and 150 employers who occupy 8 million square feet across a mix of property types, including office, retail, industrial, R&D, and institutional.

In addition to its proximity to a large, diverse talent pool; airport and highway access; and the ability to create customizable workplaces, the Navy Yard offers community members a range of amenities including restaurants and cafes, a riverfront greenway, free shuttle access, bikeshare, and over 20 acres of open green space. The Navy Yard is a collaborative community with curated food trucks, health and wellness programs, rotating public art installations by local and international artists, and hosts a variety of food, fitness, and philanthropic events in its parks.  www.navyyard.org

About Matty Geez
Matty Geez graduated with his BFA in Illustration from Pennsylvania College of Art & Design in 2014. After moving to Philadelphia, his work began to take on aspects of three dimensional art. Inspired by practical special effects of the 80s and 90s and the flamboyance of nature, his work evolved into an environment and space all its own. Matty has exhibited at various galleries in eastern and central Pennsylvania and most recently has worked with the Lancaster City Public Arts board to facilitate community engagement with the local LGBTQIA+ community. He currently lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. www.instagram.com/anordinarydaze

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Free Health & Wellness Programming at the Navy Yard in 2023

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Free and open-to-the-public fitness classes are coming back to the Navy Yard in 2023! At the Navy Yard, we strive to promote physical and spiritual wellbeing to employees of the Navy Yard and the surrounding communities.

This year we will be expanding our health and wellness programming by partnering with Alchemy X to bring a variety of classes every Tuesday and Wednesday from 5:30-6:30 p.m. beginning Tuesday May 2 to League Island Park at the Navy Yard (1101 Kitty Hawk Ave).

Alchemy X, whose main location is in the West Passyunk neighborhood of South Philadelphia, is a boutique fitness, health, and wellness studio that focuses on movement, nourishment, collaboration, and growth. Alchemy X offers fitness & wellness classes, a juice bar for nourishment, community fitness partnerships, coaching, and collaborative events. Alchemy X thrives on the growth mindset of their clients which they consider friends.

“It takes a village, but together we are willing and able to offer a wide range of tools and modalities at Alchemy X for a strong, healthy, balanced lifestyle and a safe experience to gain knowledge and support for individual growth through community means everything to me as the owner/creator of Alchemy X, I am so grateful for the opportunities to serve,” said DaraMarie Adams.

Schedule and Registering for Classes
We will post the upcoming fitness schedule to navyyard.org/events and our social media channels.

You can also register for classes and access the schedule through the Alchemy X website and on social media @alchemyX_.

We encourage each participant to BYOM (bring your own mat) and 10-15 minutes before the class is scheduled to begin and to be ready to transform into a powerful mind-body connection class, feeling refreshed and rejuvenated after completion.

Alchemy X, a South Philly boutique fitness, health, and wellness studio that focuses on movement, nourishment, collaboration, and growth, will be conducting free fitness classes at the Navy Yard this year.

Alchemy X, a South Philly boutique fitness, health, and wellness studio that focuses on movement, nourishment, collaboration, and growth, will be conducting free fitness classes at the Navy Yard this year.

About League Island Park
You probably know League Island Park as the home to Alpha Sacred Beings (The Origin of Creation) the Navy Yard’s first permanent public art display, which is a life-sized monument symbolizing a bridge between two Indigenous Nations by artist Marianela Fuentes. The beaded design was created in partnership with artists from the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation. The designs were created on a life-sized Parasaurolophus dinosaur skeleton, which once walked the land in both the Delaware Valley and Mexico.

The 2.5-acre park on the 1200-acre Navy Yard campus was designed by Wells Appel and KS Engineers. The name of the park references the original island on the Delaware River that was connected to South Philadelphia in the late 1800s. The park includes innovative stormwater management features made possible through a partnership with the Philadelphia Water Department.

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Navy Yard Collects Hundreds of Winter Clothing Items for Local School Children

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Members of the Navy Yard campus and the local community came together for the inaugural Navy Yard Winter Wonderland and Winter Clothing Drive December 17. The event included winter-themed crafts, games, performances by Philadelphia School of Circus Arts, and local food trucks.

The event was free to attend, but attendees were encouraged to bring a new or lightly used winter hats, coats, gloves, mittens, socks, earmuffs, boots, or scarves benefitting local elementary schools. Between the items received at the event and the donations from Navy Yard businesses, approximately 500 individual items collected.

The biggest donation came from Carol Shipon, who works at a Naval Surface Warfare Center at the Navy Yard, in the form of 175 handmade, crocheted hats.

 

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Navy Yard Debuts Alpha Sacred Being Documentary at Navy Yard Fall Festival

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The Navy Yard kicked fall off with a celebration and a documentary screening on October 19. More than 100 people came out on the first cold day of the season for an evening filled with food trucks, live music, games, and pumpkin painting.

But the main attraction was the world premiere of Group X’s very first documentary, “Alpha Sacred Beings.” The free screening included a special performance by the Red Blanket Singers, a Southern Style Native American drum and dance group!

The short documentary explored the work of Group X’s latest collaborating lead artist, Marianela Fuentes. Group X worked with Marianela to create a monument symbolizing a bridge between two Indigenous Nations. Alpha Sacred Beings (The Origin of Creation), was dedicated at League Island Park at the Navy Yard in June and is permanently on display.


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Navy Yard Businesses Come Through Big in Back-to-School Supply Drive for Local Elementary School

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The Navy Yard business community came together to support a local elementary school with a back-to-school supply drive during August to support the incoming kindergarten class at F. Amedee Bregy Elementary School, Bregy for short, in South Philadelphia.

The Navy Yard Engagement Committee, a collection of representatives from Navy Yard businesses whose goal is to plan community events and programs, organized the drive and placed collection bins around the Navy Yard campus. The drive resulted in more than two dozen boxes of notebooks, crayons, colored pencils, erasers, dry-erase markers, supply boxes, bookbags, hand sanitizer, bleach wipes, and other items being collected.

Being part of the Navy Yard includes access to a diverse business community that offers opportunities not just for growth, but also initiatives to foster civic and corporate engagement in the community. One of the key areas of Navy Yard community engagement is focused on education, and in collaboration with the School District of Philadelphia, the Navy Yard adopted the Bregy with the goal of supporting, collaborating, and facilitating opportunities for the students in order to reach their full potential.

Bregy is a historic school located in the Marconi Plaza neighborhood of South Philadelphia, and is one of three public elementary schools located in the Navy Yard’s catchment. With a focus on academics, technology, the arts, science and social skills, Bregy provides access to the latest technology across all grades K through 8.

A small sampling of the school supplies and classroom items collected by Navy Yard business during the back-to-school supply drive benefiting the Navy Yard’s adopted school the F. Amedee Bregy Elementary School in South Philadelphia.

Full donation bins of school supplies and classroom items collected by Navy Yard businesses during the back-to-school supply drive benefiting the Navy Yard’s adopted school the F. Amedee Bregy Elementary School in South Philadelphia.

A small sampling of the school supplies and classroom items collected by Navy Yard business during the back-to-school supply drive benefiting the Navy Yard’s adopted school the F. Amedee Bregy Elementary School in South Philadelphia.

A small sampling of the school supplies and classroom items collected by Navy Yard businesses during the back-to-school supply drive benefiting the Navy Yard’s adopted school the F. Amedee Bregy Elementary School in South Philadelphia.

The bed of this truck holds an abundance of notebooks, crayons, colored pencils, erasers, dry-erase markers, supply boxes, bookbags, hand sanitizer, bleach wipes, and other items that were collected during the back-to-school supply drive benefiting the Navy Yard’s adopted school the F. Amedee Bregy Elementary School in South Philadelphia.

The bed of this truck holds an abundance of notebooks, crayons, colored pencils, erasers, dry-erase markers, supply boxes, bookbags, hand sanitizer, bleach wipes, and other items that were collected during the back-to-school supply drive benefiting the Navy Yard’s adopted school the F. Amedee Bregy Elementary School in South Philadelphia.

F. Amedee Bregy Elementary School is a historic school located in the Marconi Plaza neighborhood of South Philadelphia, and is one of three public elementary schools located in the Navy Yard’s catchment. In collaboration with the School District of Philadelphia, the Navy Yard adopted the Bregy with the goal of supporting, collaborating, and facilitating opportunities for the students in order to reach their full potential.

F. Amedee Bregy Elementary School (Bregy) is a historic school located in the Marconi Plaza neighborhood of South Philadelphia, and is one of three public elementary schools located in the Navy Yard’s catchment. In collaboration with the School District of Philadelphia, the Navy Yard adopted the Bregy with the goal of supporting, collaborating, and facilitating opportunities for the students in order to reach their full potential.

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First permanent public art project at the Navy Yard: Alpha Sacred Beings

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On Thursday, June 9, 2022, PIDC and Group X, a group of Philadelphia-based artists, curators, and organizers whose members are anonymous, unveiled their latest and first permanent public art project at the Navy Yard: Alpha Sacred Beings (The Origin of Creation) by lead artist, Marianela Fuentes, whose previous works in her Sacred Beings series have roots with the Huichol or Wixárika indigenous people of Mexico. This piece is a monument symbolizing a bridge between two Indigenous Nations.

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This unveiling event had a sacredness about it. We heard from all the collaborators of the project. The lead artist, Marianela Fuentes, who told us about her background and what this project meant to her. Then from Reverend Dr. John Norwood, Jr., a Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Councilman and Judge, who greeted us in the tribal language. He was an integral part of this collaboration ensuring the representation of the Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation was accurate. Leonard Harmon and Roberta Flores, artists from the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation, ensured the artist understood and prioritized which parts of the Lenni-Lenaper history should be represented on Alpha Sacred Beings.  And after the ribbon cutting, we were graced by a performance by the Red Blanket Singers, a Southern Style Native American Drum and Dance Group representing the Nanticoke, Lenape, Haliwa-Saponi, and Mohawk Tribes. The members of this group ranged in age, from young children to elder adults. Listening to the beat of the drum and sounds of the voices singing left the audience in awe. And finally, to bring everyone together, all attendees all participated in a Round Dance where we held hands as one.

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This is a must-see piece of art. The designs were created on a life-sized Parasaurolophus dinosaur skeleton, which once walked the land in both Delaware Valley and Mexico. The Parasaurolophus dinosaur, name meaning “near crested lizard”, is significant because it is the biological cousin of the Velofrons, Marianela’s first full-size dinosaur sculpture. It is the most scientifically accurate dinosaur the artist has ever created and is the first to be fully modeled after an almost entirely discovered dinosaur skeleton.

The bead design was created in partnership with Leonard Harmon and Roberta Flores. These images tell stories from our region’s original people; they are stewards of all the land throughout the Delaware Valley and Philadelphia, or “Coaquannock”, and still live here today.

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Closer look at the beadwork

 

The turtle on the crown symbolizes all the land throughout North America. Around the dinosaur’s hips is a wampum belt that was given to recognize the friendship treaty under the Shackamaxon Elm between William Penn (“Mikwon”), and Tamanend (“the Affable One”).  Along the spine, fire, water, wind, mountain, moon, sun, and stars appear in a set of seven to represent Seven Generations. The four cardinal directions are represented on each limb. Flora and fauna native to our region also appear throughout the beadwork. As with all things, from the tip of the tail to the end of the nose, the monument begins and ends in the stars.

The artist and two assistants hand beaded the skeleton over 10 weeks in Mexico City and it was then brought to Philadelphia to be assembled on-site, using an estimated million beads to complete.

Alpha Sacred Beings can be found in League Island Park, located at 11th & Constitution Ave. The Navy Yard is open to the public from sunrise to sunset. Be sure to come down to see this beautiful and inspiring installation and be sure to tag us in your photos! More info about Alpha Sacred Beings at https://navyyard.org/sacredbeings.

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Cycle September is back at the Navy Yard!

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The Navy Yard is excited to join Clean Air Council, Bicycle Coalition and Indego for Philadelphia’s Cycle September Bike Challenge. Starting September 1st, Navy Yard employees and visitors can compete for great prizes, including a new Charge e-bike, by simply riding a bike. Logging your rides and encouraging your coworkers and friends to join in the fun earns you points and helps reduce pollution from cars. Cycle September also offers a great way to get your body moving in a safe, socially distanced way.

You can get cycling in the Navy Yard with a new self-guided bike tour created by the Clean Air Council. This five and a half mile tour starts at Broad Street and Langley Ave and will lead bicyclists through the Navy Yard, viewing historic and new architecture, significant landmarks, and bike path/lanes that loops back to the entrance. Bring a friend and learn about the history of buildings and ships with a special stop at the hidden goldfish pond. If you don’t have a bike there are three Indego bike stations that you can use in the Navy Yard. 

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This year as part of the challenge Bicycle Coalition and Indego will offer a 90 minute virtual Urban Riding Basics on September 17th from 12:00 – 1:30pm. Attendees will learn about rules of the road, how to use Indego, riding safely in traffic, and riding to work during COVID-19. This class is relevant to bicyclists of all skill levels but is especially beneficial for beginner riders. Course attendees will receive a one month Indego30 pass which includes unlimited 60 minute Indego rides After registering here, you will be sent a link to join the class via Zoom. 

Love to Ride has saved over 260,000 lbs of carbon dioxide emissions from being released over the last four years. This September, make biking a part of your commute or take the opportunity to check out the Navy Yard and all it has to offer. Reducing your daily greenhouse gas emissions and encouraging your coworkers to do the same are two ways you can solve climate change!

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Welcome Half Mad Honey with New Apiary

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To further our place in Philadelphia’s ecological environment, we are pleased to announce that Half Mad Honey chose the Navy Yard as the site for its second apiary. The founders Amelia Mraz and Natasha Pham are the beekeepers behind this organization. Their overall goal is to empower people with mental illness through the therapeutic realm of beekeeping. Amelia stumbled into beekeeping, and here is her story:

I stumbled into beekeeping impulsively, registering for an undergraduate horticulture class very much outside my major of psychology. I quickly became fascinated by the subtleties each hive relies on and those they create. Throughout my years in the apiary, tending to bees has become a meditative and therapeutic practice for me. When I signed up for the course, I was feeling lost, and I was searching outside myself for some source of comfort. At the time, the thought of connecting and working with bees and nature sounded comforting, so I signed up for a beekeeping class. 

Honey bees are innately sensitive to emotions, and communicate through pheromones. They can detect when you are irritated or anxious, and this in turn will agitate a hive. While holding a 60 lb. box with 70,000 bees inside, I am conscious of the depth of my breath, the placement of my feet in the grass, and the feeling of fuzzy abdomens vibrating and tickling my fingertips. In moments of fear I must surrender, and trust myself, as well as the bees. I focus on the sound of their wings fluttering and the cool fanning of air on my face. When I perform a hive inspection, I immerse myself as much as possible in the complexities and intricacies of the eusocial organization of Apis Mellifera. I see thousands of eggs and new lives being created and emerging, and I am brought outside of myself, feeling connected to something larger, I am able to be calm.

Beekeeping has been a source of education about my recovery. It has taught me trust, an act that does not come easily to me. It has also taught me that recovery is not linear. Furthermore, like mental wellness, in beekeeping there are always problems that need to be solved, prevented, and managed. Though bees are innately wild and beekeeping is fundamentally for the beekeeper, bees are a dying species that are constantly facing adversity to their survival. Regularly managing my own mental illness and symptoms, I feel like beekeeping has become a relevantly consolidated space in which I can draw parallels to my own wellness journey and process its past and trajectory.

Half Mad Honey’s mission is inspired by other mental health movements which aim to create awareness and education surrounding mental illness. Promoting the calming qualities of beekeeping, our logo the serotonin compound represents one of the main chemicals responsible for mood regulation in the body. Parallelly, studies have shown that honey has many neuropharmacological benefits, and can be specifically useful as an antidepressant. Half Mad Honey is dedicated to empowering those living with mental disorders and building a community based in peer support facilitated through the therapeutic realm of honey bees and beekeeping.

Half Mad Honey will be using the honey from the hives to create healing salves, as well as honey and honeycomb – all available for purchase.

Follow the apiary on Instagram @halfmadhoney, & check back for more updates on the Yard BLOG.

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5 Facts to Celebrate Central Green’s 5-Year Anniversary

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Five years ago today, we celebrated the grand opening of Central Green. Half a decade later, Central Green has become a treasured space for many in Philadelphia – from its design, amenities, programming, and awards, you can’t help but fall in love with Central Green.

Here are five facts you may not know about Central Green.

1. It was designed by James Corner Field Operations.

From the designers of NYC’s High Line and Philly’s beloved Race Street Pier, James Corner Field Operations designed Central Green as a 5-acre park in the heart the Corporate Center in Navy Yard Philadelphia

 

2. The park is rich with a lush & diverse landscaping that supports stormwater management

Historically marked by wetlands, meadows, and bird habitat, Central Green has grown into Philadelphia’s most innovative and progressive neighborhood. The design unites the cutting-edge urban potential with its native habitat, resulting in a new type of environment that is sustainable, green, and natural.

3. Central Green is packed with physical activities & social features

  A 1/5 mile Social Track organizes the park’s circulation and frames a unique, immersive interior park featuring flowering meadows, a hammock grove, an outdoor amphitheater, bocce courts, and fitness stations. To complement these features, the park offers free Wi-Fi for when you want to take the office outdoors!

4. Central Green has received prestigious awards!

Since its completion, honors for excellence in design and development were received from ArchDaily, Architizer, and ULI Philadelphia.

  • Urban Land Institute Philadelphia’s third annual Awards for Excellence (honoring the legacy of Willard G. “Bill” Rouse III) recognizes top projects completed within the last five years throughout Eastern and Central Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey, and Delaware. Central Green received one of the sought-after 2016 ULI Philadelphia Awards for Excellence by demonstrating quality planning and design, incorporating elements that build healthy places, promoting environmental sustainability, and meeting community needs.
  • ArchDaily, which included Central Green in its “100 Top Projects” list. This list in the “American Architecture Projects” category highlights “the 100 most visited works of architecture in the US, turning them into case studies and references for millions of architects, students and journalists that seek the most important, inspiring works of American architecture”.
  • Architizer, which conducted its fourth annual A+ Awards. These were grouped into 113 categories and voted on both by a select panel and more than 400,000 members of the public. Central Green was recognized as the Popular Choice Winner: Landscaping & Public Planning – Public Park.

5. Central Green is home to the Annual Navy Yard 5k!

Every year, the Navy Yard puts a pause on regular operations and welcomes hundred of Navy Yard employees to come together for a lunchtime race, starting and finishing in Central Green. After the race, we celebrate in Central Green with awards, music, refreshments, and Health + Wellness Expo, where Navy Yard tenants and partners educate employees on all aspects of workplace health, wellness, nutrition, fitness, and lifestyle.

The next time you’re at the Navy Yard, visit Central Green.

While the open areas are accessible for visitors to enjoy under the Navy Yard’s normal opening schedule, a return to full operations will continue to be phased, and services are limited (including restroom access, and no hammocks, and table tennis and bocce equipment).

Even though Philadelphia is currently in the yellow phase, we are still Safer at Home. On Friday, June 26, the Navy Yard will extend its hours and be open to the public from 7:00 AM to 8:00 PM and reopen its parks while keeping social distancing guidelines in place. This may change with limited to no notice, in response to the current COVID-19 situation and operational requirements of the Navy Yard.

The Navy Yard will strictly adhere to the City of Philadelphia’s COVID-19 Rules and Guidelines. Please review the latest details as they contain important information about Social Distancing Rules and provide detailed information for people and businesses in the City of Philadelphia.