Love Park Granite

Kennedy plaza is a public park located in center city philadelphia pennsylvania.

Love park granite.

A pop up gift shop featuring love park branded items including. The alm an outdoor beer garden and seating area. It will only have the park logo not the sculpture image but it s still the original love park granite. Will those officially approved activities be enough to make love park a success.

This image of skaterboarders on the granite tiers in the old love park was taken by jonathan rentschler as part of a series of photographs about the park. Love park officially known as john f. Love park granite keepsakes will finally be available flash forward to 2019 and those 3 by 3 inch granite blocks emblazoned with carvings of the love statue valued at 51 were finally in. In the end she said love wins local news.

The keepsakes made of reclaimed love park granite are still in legal limbo according to an email sent by the philadelphia department of parks recreation this week. The confusion over the rights to the love image with its. Much of the rest of the granite from the park s old basin meanwhile was earmarked for a potential new skatepark on the delaware river. Using granite salvaged from the original love park a limited number of 3 3 inch bricks were fashioned as commemorative keepsakes just in time to celebrate the opening of the new love park.

The beautiful keepsakes were cut from the original love park granite and are available for purchase at love park in the gift shop housed in the bright red restored shipping container located near the 16th arch side of the park. The park is nicknamed love park for its reproduction of robert indiana s1970 lovesculpture which overlooks the plaza. Limited edition keepsakes made from original love park granite. Those images have been collected in a book called love by paradigm publishing.

More than a year after love park s greatest admirers lined up to buy a piece of philadelphia history the granite keepsakes the city once promised will finally be available for purchase for some.