You should also check out the developments further north, towards Fairmount Park. All around the Waterworks they're redeveloping with cool things, like the cliffside paths, a new garage at the Art Museum that will have a sculpture garden on top, they renovated a gazebo and built something called the "rustic pavilion" on the hill by the Art Museum, and on the West side they created Drexel Park and a jogging trail along 31st St. and Mantua Ave. all the way to 34th St.
In the near future, they plan to convert the small peninsula between the Waterworks and Boathouse Row into an island that would also be a small nature center, expand the area around the fountain in the traffic circle there, do more renovation of the Art Museum grounds, do more landscaping on the Schuylkill Banks below the Waterworks, and, of course, build that skate park they've been talking about. It all sounds very exciting!
