Gleaming silver shovels were thrust into a photogenic pile of dirt, and men with weed-eaters trimmed the brush Monday at the groundbreaking of the $10.3 million Viaduct Rail Park north of Center City.
From left, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, Governor Tom Wolf, President of the Board of Friends of The Rail Park Sarah McEneaney, Center City District President Paul Levy, Councilman Mark Squilla, and State Repesentative Michael H. O'Brien, during the groundbreaking for the Viaduct Rail Park, Phase 1, an elevated, 25,000-square-foot linear park built atop a dilapidated quarter-mile portion of the Reading Viaduct that runs from Broad Street southeast across 13th and 12th Streets to Callowhill Street., in Philadelphia. Monday, Oct. 31, 2016.Read moreJESSICA GRIFFIN / Staff Photographer
