ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEThe park's own site gives a pair of years rather than a day: the "11.5-acre civic park under construction along Philadelphia's Central Delaware Waterfront" is "Set to open in 2029/2030".[1]
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- Jan 1, 203050% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
The Park at Penn's Landing Opens Over a Capped I-95
An 11.5-acre civic park on a deck over Interstate 95 and Columbus Boulevard, stitching Old City back to the Delaware River waterfront. PennDOT is building the $329 million cap underneath and the waterfront corporation the park on top of it.
- "Penn's Landing Park is a new 11.5-acre civic park under construction along Philadelphia's Central Delaware Waterfront", built atop a new expanded cap over Interstate 95 and Christopher Columbus Boulevard, and it "will reconnect Center City neighborhoods to the Delaware River"[1]
- The site gives the opening as a two-year window rather than the single year the pin uses: "Set to open in 2029/2030"[1]
- The park is created by the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation (DRWC), which has led citywide engagement with community organizations; its engagement team is led by PennPraxis, Little Giant Creative, SEAMAAC, Make the World Better Foundation and the Village of Arts & Humanities[1]
- Planned amenities: open lawns for festivals and performances, a year-round café with rotating food trucks, a nature-inspired play space for children of all ages and abilities, a reimagined RiverRink for winter skating and warm-weather roller skating, markets and movie nights, a summer interactive water feature, a pavilion with café seating, restrooms and rentals, and an outdoor amphitheater[1]
- Construction has begun on PennDOT's I-95 Central Access Philadelphia (CAP) project, which includes the park and an extension of the South Street Pedestrian Bridge; a PennDOT timelapse shows the partial demolition of I-95 between Chestnut and Walnut Streets[1]
- The South Street Pedestrian Bridge "will extend across Columbus Boulevard, creating a direct, safe, and scenic link from South Street to the Waterfront"; it "will be installed during a single overnight operation in Winter 2027 and is expected to open to the public in late 2027 to early 2028"[1]
- "In 2011, the future of Penn's Landing was first envisioned in the Master Plan for the Central Delaware", a roadmap for waterfront development between Port Richmond and Pennsport, followed by a three-year study confirming a park was possible at the waterfront; the site also includes a new trail along Columbus Boulevard[1]
- The page carries a stale line alongside its current schedule - the background section still says "Construction is scheduled to start in 2023" while elsewhere it reports construction under way[1]
- It gives no cost, so the pin's $329 million for the PennDOT cap is not corroborated here[1]
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- [1]50%parkatpennslanding.comparkatpennslanding.com· Posted Sep 20, 2026· Starts Jan 1, 2030 ✓· 100% of score
The park's own site gives a pair of years rather than a day: the "11.5-acre civic park under construction along Philadelphia's Central Delaware Waterfront" is "Set to open in 2029/2030".
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