Downtown Harrisburg “pocket park” now open, will host Earth Day plant swap tonight

Downtown Harrisburg’s Coronet Park opened with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday after being revitalized from a deteriorating parcel to a fresh events space.

Located just south of Market Square, the new 3,300-square-foot “pocket park” tucks between the Menaker apartment building and the Crowne Plaza.

It is named for the former Coronet restaurant that caught fire in 1994, which once stood where the park was built. Harristown CEO Brad Jones said the property had been “basically abandoned” for about 15 years when Harristown bought the building in 2017 hoping to redevelop the space.

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