Lancaster
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Heritage West: West Philadelphia Community Archaeology Project

Penn Museum Press Release

Heritage West Project Featured in Philadelphia Inquirer

Digging up artifacts, recovering stories of historic Black Bottom neighborhood at West Philly archeological site

Get Involved With Heritage West!

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Parking Day

​Each year, on the third Friday in September, the Neighborhood Advisory committee (NAC) at HopePHL partners with activists, artists, architects, and other citizens to transform metered parking into temporary public parks and green spaces!

This year, partnered with Penn Museum, there were 3 different excavation sites that the community could take part in at the Community Education Center on Lancaster Ave.

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Many thanks to this year's Martin Luther King Day of Service team with members from HopePHL, Drexel University, University of Pennsylvania, LA21, Full Court Development,  PosiGen, Black Achievement Fund, PDAC, We Embrace Fatherhood and residents which beautified the streets around Lancaster Avenue this year. We were excited to engage with one young community member who took on leadership roles throughout the day and noted that he found some purpose in this service project. The clean-up team took a moment to applaud for the young man at the culmination of the event as Dante highlighted him and noted that he wants to work with HopePHL in the future. We look forward to it!