Upper Darby Township Community Development Print

star-24px 2019 AARP Community Challenge Grantee

Project Category

Public Spaces
This project will help bring renewed activity, improve safety and add a dynamic feel to downtown Upper Darby (a multicultural gateway community into Philadelphia from the suburbs) by installing lighting, seating and a mural along a path to a shopping and service corridor.

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Completed mural with lights.
Mural wall before painting.
Painting the mural.

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