{"id":192,"date":"2011-09-01T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wrecking-rec-center\/"},"modified":"2023-01-12T16:43:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T21:43:19","slug":"wrecking-rec-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wrecking-rec-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrecking The Rec Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"center caption\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Venice Island Demolition\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Az4FSXeOAUo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video: NewsWorks<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Even if you don&#8217;t care about stormwater management (and it&rsquo;s our sworn duty to insist you really should), who doesn&#8217;t like to watch stuff get wrecked? WHYY&#8217;s NewsWorks posted a time-lapse video (above) of the demolition of the old Venice Island recreation center. It&rsquo;s all part of PWD&rsquo;s two-year, $40 million project to install a four-million-gallon underground storage basin and revamp the area with a new performing arts space, children&#8217;s play area (including a sprayground) and parking space. Read the accompanying NewsWorks article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsworks.org\/index.php\/local\/item\/25824\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phillywatersheds.org\/what_were_doing\/traditional_infrastructure\/projects\/venice_island\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> to learn more about the Venice Island project and check out our recent <a href=\"http:\/\/phillywatersheds.org\/what-would-venice-island-do\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post<\/a> on how the storage basin may have controlled flooding in Manayunk due to Hurricane Irene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if you don&#8217;t care about stormwater management (and it&rsquo;s our sworn duty to insist you really should), who doesn&#8217;t like to watch stuff get wrecked?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"custom_css":"","custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[75,526],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infrastructure","tag-project-update","tag-venice-island","wpautop"],"acf":{"suggested":null},"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/phila.gov\/blog\/wrecking-rec-center\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Wrecking The Rec Center","url":"http:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wrecking-rec-center\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wrecking-rec-center\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Infrastructure","author":[],"creator":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"@PhillyH2O Blog","logo":""},"keywords":["project update","venice island"],"dateCreated":"2011-09-01T14:03:00Z","datePublished":"2011-09-01T14:03:00Z","dateModified":"2023-01-12T21:43:19Z"},"rendered":"<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"wp-parsely-metadata\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"headline\":\"Wrecking The Rec Center\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/water.phila.gov\\\/blog\\\/wrecking-rec-center\\\/\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/water.phila.gov\\\/blog\\\/wrecking-rec-center\\\/\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"url\":\"\"},\"articleSection\":\"Infrastructure\",\"author\":[],\"creator\":[],\"publisher\":{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"name\":\"@PhillyH2O Blog\",\"logo\":\"\"},\"keywords\":[\"project update\",\"venice island\"],\"dateCreated\":\"2011-09-01T14:03:00Z\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-09-01T14:03:00Z\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-01-12T21:43:19Z\"}<\/script>","tracker_url":"https:\/\/cdn.parsely.com\/keys\/phila.gov\/p.js"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}