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Barnard Place Park & Boston Community Preservation

Who We Are

Our Project

Our Project

Barnard Place Park is a volunteer nonprofit organization in South Boston consisting of 16 Barnard Place residents who are building a beautiful, public park for the community to enjoy.

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Our Project

Our Project

Our Project

 We see Barnard Place Park as a welcoming respite from the busy city in which we live. Our design includes a memorial bench, a wheelchair-accessible vegetable bed, trees, shrubs, a butterfly garden, bistro-style seating, and a recreational bocce court to honor the history of bocce that was played on this land decades ago. 

Our History

Our Project

Our History

The Barnard Place residents have cared for this city-owned parcel for more than 30 years. In April of 2019, we established a nonprofit organization to secure the deed to the land to revitalize it as a useable open space to share with the community.

WATERTOWN LANDSCAPING JOINS BARNARD PLACE PARK

Watertown Landscaping, Inc. was established in 1987. Starting out as a one-man operation, we have steadily grown into one of the top landscape construction companies in the Boston area. Since that time, we have developed a successful relationship with many developers, business and home owners, management companies, condominium associations as well as the local community.

How Barnard Place Park will benefit the public 

Our open space will provide enjoyment of nature, relaxation, a low-impact recreational experience and bring people together to engage with one another. By purchasing the land to revitalize the area, we are creating a pleasurable open space which will reassure the future preservation of this environmentally important land.

Social Benefits

  • Recreational bocce court contributes low-impact fun and physical well-being  
  • Relaxation and restorative atmosphere contribute to mental well-being
  • Welcoming place for people with disabilities, elderly and children 
  • Visual beauty enrichment 
  • Provide ecological awareness and hands-on experience, via teaching/learning opportunities, to the inner city neighborhood.
  • Engagement in the community 
  • Increase appreciation of natural surroundings
  • Contribute to an overall healthy environment

Environmental Benefits

  • Protect existing area vegetation.
  • Incorporate additional native and native-compatible plants, trees and shrubs.
  • Provide a protected, natural habitat for small animals, insects and birds.
  • Provide a food-source center for pollinators such as bees and butterflies thereby increasing the available, natural habitat for their reproduction.
  • Reduce toxins and improve breathable air quality by providing natural air-filtration.
  • Reduce congestion by providing and maintaining an open, green-space. 

Community Benefits

  • Provide people of different cultures and abilities with a sense of community 
  • Reduce alienation and loneliness 
  • Create volunteer opportunities for community involvement
  • Honor the history of the neighborhood 
  • Support a sense of pride in the community

Thank you Councilor Ed Flynn!

Big Thanks to councilor Ed flynn

Barnard Place Park Kickoff!

As we begin our exciting adventure to build Barnard Place Park we want to give special thanks to Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn. Ed met with us on Barnard Place in 2018 to listen to the challenges our neighborhood faced over the years with caretaking the abandoned land and our wishes to create a safe, enjoyable open space. He informed us of a Community Meeting at the Tynan School to discuss the option of constructing a public park with Community Preservation funding. We attended the meeting and began the process of moving forward to make this dream a reality.

Barnard Place residents met several times over the course of 2019 to work on the conceptual design. It was important for us to include a memorial bench in memory of longstanding Barnard Place residents Boston Firefighter Scott Salman & Arta Fritch, as well as honor the history of our surrounding community.  We believe we have achieved a design that will bring thoughtfully landscaped open space to promote relaxation, honor the people who were the fabric of this area for decades, and include a recreational bocce court for the neighborhood to have some fun and get to know one another.

It has been quite an interesting experience. We have met many wonderful people who have helped us along the way. We wouldn't be kicking off Barnard Place Park without Councilor Flynn's vision and support. We are eager to launch this project and take it from pre-construction all the way to the ribbon-cutting ceremony!

Barnard Place Park made possible by generous donations

A Nonprofit Is As Strong As Its Community

A Nonprofit Is As Strong As Its Community

A Nonprofit Is As Strong As Its Community

Join us in making the Barnard Place Park a reality by helping us raise the additional funds needed to construct this beautiful South Boston neighborhood public park. Please visit our Donate page for further information. Your donation is 100% tax-deductible. 

Volunteers Shape Their Community

A Nonprofit Is As Strong As Its Community

A Nonprofit Is As Strong As Its Community

Barnard Place Park welcomes Boston residents to join our nonprofit group by becoming active volunteers. Please visit our Volunteer page for opportunities.  

GOODE LANDSCAPE STUDIO JOINS BARNARD PLACE PARK

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COMMUNITY OUTREACH GROUP FOR LANDSCAPE DESIGN

Our very special thanks to Jennifer Kimball, Executive Director, Valeri Burns, Project Manager, Darrah Cole, Senior Horticulturist and Designer - Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy and Amanda Foran, Landscape Architect for their expertise, professionalism and dedication in working closely with us to create the original Barnard Place Park conceptual designs.  COGdesign continues to be a major resource and support system for our project.

Community Preservation Award

Mayor Walsh Recommends Barnard Place Park for Community preservation funding

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Sample Ideas for Barnard Place Park

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 Spring of 2021. We are well on our way to realizing Barnard Place Park to share with the community!

COMMUNITY MEETING - SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

The Barnard Place residents hosted an on-site community meeting to discuss the Barnard Place Park project in detail. We give thanks to our special guests Christine Poff, Director, Community Preservation, State Representative David Biele, Darrah Cole, Horticulturist, Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy and Pattie McCormick, Associate Director of Development, Edgerley Family South Boston Boys & Girls Club for their support, along with the neighborhood residents who took time out of their Saturday morning to join us.   

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.

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