BPP Awarded Community Preservation Funding. Thank you Southie for your support!
COGdesign (Community Outreach Group for Landscape Design) was instrumental in volunteering their time for several months to create the conceptual design for the public Barnard Place Park.
Special thanks to Jennifer Kimball, Executive Director, COGdesign, Amanda Foran, Landscape Architect, Darrah Cole, Horticulturist, and Valerie Burns, Project Manager, for their expertise, professionalism and dedication to our project.
History of the barnard Place Park Project
What is the Barnard Place Park project?
The City of Boston previously owned a 2,000 sq. ft., vacant, parcel of land on Barnard Place. In 2018, City Councilor Ed Flynn, along with Joseph Backer of the Department of Neighborhood Development and Christine Poff, Director of Community Preservation, held a community meeting at the Tynan School to discuss an opportunity to build a public park with a South Boston nonprofit residents group as a Community Preservation project.
After caring for the land for more than three decades, the Barnard Place residents were very interested in developing it into useable, open space. Over the past two years we have established a nonprofit organization, secured Community Preservation funding, purchased the City's parcel, and have begun the pre-construction work to break ground in the Fall of 2020. We are well on our way to realizing Barnard Place Park to share with the community!
Neighborhood residents gather for the Barnard Place Park community meeting.
Pattie McCormick and neighbors listen to Evan Spencer present the Barnard Place Park project.
Christine Poff, Director of the Community Preservation addresses the crowd.
Christine Poff listens to a resident's question about the Community Preservation Act.
Representative Biele, Christine Poff and neighbors listen to a resident speak.
Horticulturist Darrah Cole shares a laugh.