The question was posed at the January General Membership meeting: What is the Passyunk Square Civic Association doing about vacant lots and abandoned properties in the neighborhood? Thankfully our area doesn’t have as much trouble with this issue as other neighborhoods. That doesn’t mean we’re completely free of them.

In order to even begin planning what we might do about this issue, we first need to get an idea of the scope of the problem. To do this we want to continue to get an inventory all the boarded up/vacant houses in the neighborhood. This is where you come in!

Some weeks ago we sent around a survey to allow neighbors to report suspected abandoned properties. (Unfortunately, there are some inhabited buildings that only look like they’re vacant.)

If you see a house that is boarded up/vacant  click here to fill out this short form and send us the address and cross streets. This will feed into the inventory we have been keeping.

Thank you for helping to make our neighborhood a better place.

Saturday! – 8:45am to 1pm

Meet at the rec center building at Capitolo Playground on the 9th Street side of the park at 9th and Federal.

It’s time to plant some more trees. There are 42 trees coming next Saturday and we’ll need lots of hands to help get them in the ground. We’ll have tools but feel free to bring your own shovel and gloves – we can always use extras.

If you’ve done this before you’ll know that it’s a really fun day. Please join us and bring a friend!

Sarah and Andrew from our Beautification Committee promise that anyone who gets to 9th and Federal by 9am will get coffee and Federal Donuts. Like Andrew says: “Volunteering is the new being a lazy slob!”

UPDATE:

After all your hard work join us at 1pm at the Devil’s Den so we can all “plant” ourselves on some bar stools, “dig” into some cheap appetizers. They’ll be offering 20% off all food orders, $1 off select draft beers, and free coffee.

Email Sarah and Andrew with questions, ideas, comments at beautification@passyunk.org.

Nov 19 – Next Saturday! – 8:45am to 1pm

Meet at the rec center building at Capitolo Playground on the 9th Street side of the park.

It’s time to plant some more trees. There are 42 trees coming next Saturday and we’ll need lots of hands to help get them in the ground. We’ll have tools and hot beverages, though feel free to bring your own shovel and gloves – we can always use extras.

If you’ve done this before you’ll know that it’s a really fun day. Please join us and bring a friend! To sweeten the pot, we’re trying to organize a little post-planting gathering at a local “watering” hole so we can all “plant: ourselves on some bar stools, “dig” into some cheap appetizers and use quotations marks a lot.

Email Sarah and Andrew with questions, ideas, comments at beautification@passyunk.org.