West Roxbury, Massachusetts
Millennium Park, formerly the Gardner Street Landfill, has been "capped" with fill from the Central Artery/ Third Harbor Tunnel project and has become a 92-acre city park. The firm of Camp, Dresser & McKee, engineers, hired Brown, Richardson & Rowe to contribute our expertise with land reclamation and manufactured soils to the planting design for the park. We designed five kinds of planting: native growth woodland that can survive dry, windy conditions, meadow grass, wet meadow grass, and wetland planting and tree planting around site features. Brown, Richardson & Rowe also designed the playgrounds, an exercise course, site furniture, a gazebo, shade structures, and wooden stairs to the Charles River.
Millennium Park received the Nicholas Humber Environmental Award for Outstanding Collaboration in March 2002 from the New England Environmental Business Council.
