Ink Underground is the name of the new park planned for under Boston's Southeast Expressway. Itsdeveloper, National Development, is the same firmwho brought the residential/mixed-use Ink Block to the South End. This seemingly unlikely place for a park sitsbeneath Ink Block and Fort Point Channel.The eight acres are being leased to National Development for the next 35 years, according to the Boston Globe. With a visionto make it aplace forconcerts, fitness classes, bike paths, street art and more, National Developmentsees such activities as vital to its attractiveness:
Were really trying to make it into an urban playground and achieve a kind of cool factor, said managing partner Ted Tye. We need to make it active, so people populate it.
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