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South End Redevelopment: A Park Planned Where You'd Least Expect it

South End under expressway parkInk 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.

Read the Boston Globe's A Park Beneath a Highway? One is Coming to the South End.If youhavequestions about buying or selling Boston real estate, please call me at617-584-9790, orsend me an email via the linkbelow. Boston real estate

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