The Bartram Choice neighborhood boundary encompasses parts of the Southwest Philadelphia community, with Bartram Village at its core.
Over 30,000 residents
Commercial Corridors – Woodland and Chester Avenues
Recreation Centers – Kingsessing, Myers, 48th and Woodland, Connell, 63rd and Lindbergh, Bartram’s Garden
Schools – Hardy Williams Mastery, Comegys, Mitchel, Independence Charter West, Richard Allen, Morton, Catharine, Tilden, and Bartram
Kingsessing Bartram Village CCI Plan
The Kingsessing/Bartram Village CCI Plan focuses primarily on empowering long-time homeowners to remain in the community, strengthening commercial corridors and small businesses, beautifying the neighborhood through public art and placemaking, as well as supporting nature-focused youth education projects. These initiatives celebrate community identity, enhance neighborhood assets, and promote the revitalization of public space. The five projects aim to attract new businesses to the neighborhood, retain and create jobs, generate interest in the area, and serve as a catalyst for private investment. Each project addresses one or more goals outlined in the Transformation Plan.
Connect:
Create an inviting community that is clean and safe with active public spaces. Connect people to these activated spaces and to each other.
Connect Goal 1: Develop a clean network of streets along primary circulation routes that connect major services, amenities, and businesses to Bartram Village and the waterfront.
Connect Goal 2: Foster a safe neighborhood day and night for residents of all ages.
LIVE:
Create an environment that fosters the health and wellness of all residents of all ages through healthy and affordable housing, access to medical services and nutritious food, and connections to spaces that heal the mind and body.
Live Goal 1: Promote healthy, affordable housing and homeownership opportunities throughout the Bartram Choice neighborhood.
THRIVE:
Foster access for people of all ages to education, skills, jobs, and services, so that they can thrive. Enable the neighborhood to blossom by celebrating its history and strengthening its commercial corridors and identity.
Thrive Goal 1: Develop a pathway to success beginning in early childhood.
Thrive Goal 2: Nurture a culture of literacy at Bartram Village.
Thrive Goal 4: Bridge the basic skills divide.
Thrive Goal 5: Strengthen the identity and vibrancy of the neighborhood and its commercial corridors.
