Philadelphia Property Management: Philly Spring Clean-Up Day
While we are a Philadelphia property management company, we also care about the community surrounding our properties, so we wanted to highlight a city-wide event planned for this Saturday, April 14th — the 2012 Philly Spring Cleanup Day.
Created and organized by the Philadelphia Streets Department, the goal of this event is to ” put an end to litter and illegal dumping – permanently.” Residents from various Philadelphia neighborhoods were able to add “projects” to the day’s planned events; in other words, block captains and other concerned local citizens could decide what area of their particular neighborhood to focus on, create the event on the Philly Spring Cleanup website, and then other residents can officially register to be a part of it.
Today being only a few days prior to the scheduled event, the deadline for creating events has passed. However, there’s still plenty of time to sign up to participate with many of them!
Here is a sample of the many projects that are still actively accepting volunteers:
- “Frankford Ave Clean-up”: Garden Center, 1801 Frankford Ave, Kensington. They will be cleaning the Frankford Avenue corridor from Delaware Ave to Lehigh Ave.
- “Fishtown Recreation Center Clean-Up”: 1202 East Montgomery Ave. They will be doing general cleaning of the inside and outside of the Recreation Center
- “Washington Square West Clean Streets”: They will be removing trash and cleaning the streets of the Washington Square West neighborhood, which is often littered due to the high amount of pedestrian traffic on a daily basis.
- “Chinatown Spring Cleanup”: Cleaning the whole area of Chinatown, 10th Street Plaza (10th & Vine streets), focusing on the commercial core area and on abandoned or vacant lots that are prone to litter
- “Save Our Hood”: 55th & Chester, Southwest Philadelphia. “This area contains over grown vacant lots, burned out and boarded-up houses, and a playground-all of which attrach garbage, graffiti, and illegal activity. The hope is that cleaning-up this area will deter crime. There is no formal organizational support, but there is a commitment from the neighborhood youth to particpate in the clean-up and for ongoing litter removal.”
There’s a project scheduled in every neighborhood, so there’s plenty of opportunities to get involved and do your share to help keep our city clean! Get to know your neighbors, meet your block captains, join the neighborhood association, or just spend a day accomplishing something for your own personal goals.
Here’s hoping that we surpass last year’s success!
PHILADELPHIA PROPERTY MANAGEMENT: SOME STATISTICS FROM THE 2011 SPRING CLEANUP DAY
(The following information is gathered from the Philadelphia Streets Department Program website,
- 252 Project Sites
- 12,574 Volunteers
- 1,240,360 pounds of trash removed
- 149,860 pounds of material recycled
- 1,104 city blocks cleaned
- 3,750 recycling bins distributed
- 28 parks and 17 recreation centers cleaned
Happy Spring Cleaning, Philadelphia!
