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CHUCKIE HARRIS PARK

CHUCKIE HARRIS PARK
SOMERVILLE, MA
2013

The GV-designed, Chuckie Harris Park is described by Somerville Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone as the new “heart” of East Somerville’s Nunnery Grounds, a neighborhood with a history of environmental justice challenges. This new half-acre city park was built on a former industrial storage site. “Design this good,” reflects the Mayor “can do more than just enhance a neighborhood, it can help create one. It becomes a place where strangers become neighbors, where kids become friends.”

Boston Society of Landscape Architects Honor Award

photograph: Christian Phillips

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