More Beer Gardens Could Be Popping Up Across Philadelphia This Summer
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- It will be a few more months before warm weather and long days sprout Philadelphia's summer crop of pop-up beer gardens...and this could be a bumper year. The city is exploring putting temporary pop-ups in 18 parks.
Parks and Recreation Commissioner Catherine Ott Lovell started exploring the idea when she was still with the Fairmount Park Conservancy, helping oversee the pop-up beer garden at Eakins Oval.
"It's just a really great trend here of Philadelphians wanting to be out and about in open spaces, enjoying themselves, meeting their neighbors, meeting new people, really thinking about our public spaces as great places for that kind of gathering," Lovell says.
She's asked for proposals from vendors for a Mobile Food and Beverage Garden Service that would travel every five days from downtown parks like Logan Square to neighborhoods spots like Clark Park and Sedgely Woods.
"Our hope is that we'd generate some earned revenue that would then go back into those specific parks," Lovell says.
She says the city has to be creative in finding ways to maintain parks. She says it would also be a service to users and might introduce new fans to the city's green spaces.
