Paine's Park Project

Paine’s Park will be a mixed-use public space, designed with skateboarding in mind, set along the banks of the Schuylkill River adjacent to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Since the project was first conceptualized in 2002, it has become a model for a new kind of dialogue between skateboarding, landscape architecture, and city planning, where space is designed to accommodate skateboarding as an important energizing force behind the life and movement of public space.

Designed by Anthony Bracali and Brian Nugent, Paine’s Park is not a replacement for LOVE Park. It is an evolution of the lessons about skateboarding in public space, the development of new ideas about recreation and public space in cities and towns around the world, and something new altogether: a beautiful public gathering point on a priceless site that welcomes skateboarding as its primary reason for being.

It has been the steadfast commitment of the Philadelphia’s skateboarding community, City and State governments, neighborhood groups, and members of the architecture and design community, to rally for years to see this vision through from a sketch on a napkin in 2002 to having raised millions for the project with completed construction documents filed with the City of Philadelphia.

Similar projects have been constructed in several cities around the country since Paine’s Park was first conceived as the Schuylkill River Skatepark Project back in 2003, but none yet have rivaled the complete commitment and centralized site location that Paine’s Park will have achieved upon completion.

Click here for recent news on Parks and Recreation’s capital commitment to Paine’s Park.