Perkasie’s Gateway Mural Project aims to transform a long-vacant, blighted parcel into an attractive, colorful, WELCOME, greeting visitors to Perkasie’s downtown commercial district. The project will beautify this important arrival gateway by creating a unique, custom designed MURAL on a long-abandoned SEPTA freight car, and by refreshing the appearance of the historic SEPTA Freight House on the same parcel.

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The project is being completed with the help of a Bucks County Tourism Grant provided by Visit Bucks County and in conjunction with Perkasie Borough & Septa.

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PROJECT GOALS:

• Create an exciting and attractive arrival gateway for visitors to Perkasie’s commercial downtown district.

• Transform a long-blighted historic site into an asset that will drive visitor numbers to the site and increase commercial activity in Perkasie’s revitalized downtown center.

• Celebrate Perkasie’s history, community and sense of place by incorporating images and graphical. elements into a public art project that represents our rich historic, civic, commercial, recreational and commercial assets.

• Connect Perkasie into a growing inventory of murals and public art projects across Bucks County and support the development of a County-wide art-based tourism initiative.

 

PROCESS

• Put out a RFQ to artists with a June 28, 2024 deadline.

• Review submissions with Perkasie Borough and the community on July 10, 2024 @ 3:00pm.

• Make a final decision on the artist - August 2024

• Begin mural installation - Late summer, early fall

• Provide progress updates.

• Mural Finished late fall 2024.

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For more information, contact Kara at ptia.board@gmail.com