BSLA honors 10-acre Park at Rivers Edge

The Park at River's Edge received an Honor Design award in the Reclamation and Conservation subcategory from the Boston Society of Landscape Architects (BSLA). Shadley Associates of Lexington designed the 10-acre park. The Park at River's Edge is a landscaped public area created to complement River's Edge, a master-planned 30-acre office and residential development. The development team has added over 8,000 new plants and set up an irrigation system fed by well water. The park, created on a site which had been neglected for decades after a century of industrial use, has revived the riverfront, restoring over 1½ acres of wetlands. The rejuvenated area has already seen the park turn into a rich habitat for migratory birds. The $200 million Phase I of the River's Edge project will consist of three contemporary office buildings with an aggregate of 410,000 s/f and 220 luxury rental housing units. The initial office building, which is now under construction, has received precertification at the Gold level as a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Core and Shell (LEED-CS) project from the U.S. Green Building Council.