Green Street Parklet
About
The Green Street Parklet is a small public park built into curbside space on Green Street in Jamaica Plain, near its intersection with Centre Street. Free and open to everyone, it offers chairs, tables, a bench and niches for plants and decor, giving people a place to sit along a less-traveled stretch of the street. The goal is to activate the Green Street corridor and draw more pedestrians and cyclists to it.
The parklet is a partnership of JP Centre/South Main Streets, A Better City and the City of Boston, funded by a Barr Foundation grant and designed by the landscape architecture firm Merritt Chase. Work began in early 2019 through the Tactical Realms initiative with the Boston Transportation Department. JP Centre/South Main Streets schedules programming there, such as small outdoor concerts, to bring neighbors out to the corridor.
What to Know
- The parklet is seasonal: the city packs and stores it when cold weather arrives and reinstalls it in the same spot each spring.
- Blue Frog Bakery partners with JP Centre/South Main Streets to maintain the space daily.
- Volunteer of the Year Patti McKenna has donated pumpkins and flowers to decorate it.
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