A consortium of Greenway stakeholders are close to a long-term solution to solve the persistent Greenway funding question. A 10-year lease renewal to the non-profit Greenway Conservancy would include a significantly reduced State contribution, at a fraction of the $2 million current annual funding level, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation. The State’s lower contribution would be replaced by new Read More…
Monday’s here, start the week off right! Events on Monday, April 10 [Passover Begins] 7:00pm NEWNC Monthly Meeting – Nazzaro Center, 30 N. Bennet Street. This monthly meeting will cover several local items including Ristorante Limoncello 2, Urban Cantina, Snow Hill Street roof deck, Nail Salon at former location of True Value, the North Square Read More…
Since 2009, we have been talking about how to fund the Greenway. Marking its eighth year managing the parks last month, the non-profit Greenway Conservancy and its stakeholders have yet to find a business model that is not under constant risk of having the rug pulled out from under it. With the Greenway lease up for renewal in June 2017, the Read More…
The North End / Waterfront Neighborhood Council held their monthly meeting at the Nazzaro Center on Monday night, where they went through community updates and reports from the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, and Boston City Councilor Sal LaMattina. A video timeline is provided below so you can jump to issues of interest: (00:00 in video) Welcome Read More…
Greenway Uncovered (GU) is a 20-page report (pdf) recently released to the media by “employees and volunteers of Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, both past and present.” The report is anonymous and any specific motivation is unclear other than that stated in the report that “silence is neither golden nor in our own interest.” The Greenway Conservancy (GC) responded with its Read More…
The Greenway Conservancy issued its latest financial numbers, with a headline number of $8.8 million in operating expenses over the 18-month period ending December 2015. The extended reporting period is due to a one-time change in fiscal year-end reporting, from June year-end to December. For the 12 months ending December 2016, the Conservancy’s board approved a budget of $5 million which is about Read More…
Food trucks are back on the Greenway. Here are the details on this year’s lineup from the Greenway Conservancy. The Greenway Conservancy (RoseKennedyGreenway.org) announced a record line-up of 34 food trucks and trikes, including 10 new vendors, 2 of those new food vendor debuts, for the 2016 season of Greenway Mobile Eats. The largest ever number of Read More…
The Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy had a ribbon cutting ceremony this week to celebrate the recent North End Park improvements. Local officials and residents visited the newly planted boxwood beds, tried out the new swinging benches while enjoying coffee and pastries. For more details on the work, see this slide presentation.
The Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy is the charitable partner of Dine Out Boston (formerly Restaurant Week) for this summer’s gift certificate auction. The auction features $100 gift certificates to each of the participating restaurants in this summer’s Dine Out Boston program. “The Greenway is honored to have been selected the beneficiary charity partner of the 2015 Summer Dine Out Boston Read More…
This week started the groundbreaking for the North End Park improvement project [See Big Improvements Coming This Spring to the North End Parks on the Greenway]. From the news release included below, the 8 new porch swings are now officially part of the project and there is a new donor, Normandy Real Estate Partners & Read More…
The North End Parks on the Greenway will be the beneficiary of $400,000 in dedicated 2015 grant funding from the Mass. Cultural Council to the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway Conservancy. At a community meeting this week, the Conservancy presented plans for a broad range of fixes and improvements for the North End Parks including the renovation of the Parcel Read More…
Rose F. Kennedy Greenway Conservancy Executive Director, Jesse Brackenbury, updated the North End / Waterfront Residents’ Association (NEWRA) on how the Conservancy’s recent lease renewal for the parks will impact the North End. He was introduced by NEWRA’s representative on the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway Conservancy Board, Robyn Reed, at their December 11, 2014 meeting. The imminent two-year Read More…