Official:Authorizing the Commissioner of the Department of Parks and Recreation, on behalf of the City, to execute a lease with CP 2023, a Pennsylvania nonprofit corporation, under which CP 2023 would design, construct, operate, maintain, and repair a museum building on the southerly side of Benjamin Franklin Parkway between the Vine Street Expressway, 21st Street, and 22nd Street, to display works of art by Alexander Calder and the Calder family of artists, all at no cost or expense to the City; and exempting the lease from the requirements of Philadelphia Code Chapter 15-100 regarding parks and outdoor spaces; all under certain terms and conditions.
Sponsor: Council President Clarke
Introduced: April 28, 2022
Signed: June 23, 2022
: Committee on Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs
Status: Signed into Law, step 4 of 4
This bill authorizes a lease with a nonprofit corporation to build and operate an Alexander Calder museum on Benjamin Franklin Parkway, exempting it from certain regulations.
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