The Community Alliance of Spring Garden and East Deutschtown (CASGED) held a community party on May 21 as part of a fundraising effort to build a new public park.
The event, titled Community Gathering, was held at Penn Brewery, and featured both silent and live auctions, raffles and the chance for neighbors to vote on what features they want to see for the planned park, which will be built at the vacant lot located at the corner of Tripoli and Chestnut streets and is owned by CASGED. The park will also incorporate the neighboring Food City, a community garden managed by CASGED.
“It’s an important park for us because we’re a really dense neighborhood with a lot of old houses and not a lot of yards,” said Erik Kath, CASGED’s president.
The community group is planning several amenities for the space — which is going by the name of Tripoli Park — such as a stage, a roof ed pavilion, the planting of additional trees, and the reuse of the old trolley tracks that used to run along Chestnut Street as a sculpture, kiosk or furniture. Attendees at the party were able to vote on some additional features, such as the shape and material for the park’s planned picnic tables. They were also able to vote for one of three additional park amenities, the choices consisting of grills, bike racks or a community bulletin board.
Check out the June 2026 issue of The Northside Chronicle for the complete story.
