This time the goal is to turn University City into a Garden Village with greenways along streets, pathways to schools and parks, landscaping and plantings around homes and apartments and the conversion of vacant lots into community assets.
University City is a giant step closer to becoming greener.
UC Green's recent Arbor Day project involved planting more than 100 trees along Walnut Street from 43rd to 48th Streets on Saturday, March 24. Hundreds of volunteers had been recruited from the community and Penn and from the University of Tennessee. But when the day of planting came, so did even more volunteers than had been anticipated. There were more than 1,200 registered volunteers who pitched in. They planted Ginko trees, Hackberry trees, Honey Locusts trees, London Plane trees, Red Bud trees, and Red Maple trees.