The Collaborative Awarded Contract to Redesign Amory Park

The Collaborative is pleased to announce the award of a Massachusetts Department of Parks and Recreation contract for design and construction services to redesign Amory Park along the Southwest Corridor in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood. This is an important project and we are excited about the opportunity to work with the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) on this assignment.

The redesign of Amory Park presents a rare opportunity to tell an important story about a forgotten waterway that once meandered through Boston’s meadows and hills. Recently selected by the Massachusetts Department of Parks and Recreation, the Collaborative will look for opportunities to appropriately incorporate the little known natural and human ecology stories into the redesign of the park, while meeting the project’s environmental, recreational, and circulation goals.

The park is located along the watercourse of the now covered Stony Brook. The waterway begins south and west of Boston and flows through the neighborhoods of Jamaica Plains, Roxbury, Hyde Park, and other southwestern Boston communities. Before being submerged in a large culvert for most of its length, the brook was a valued source of fresh water. It was home to abundant wildlife, and its pure water attracted indigenous people, and later, immigrants, who came to tap its waters for breweries and other industries. This early industrial corridor, in turn, spawned settlements that became home to tens of thousands of Bostonians.