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Public Facilities Commission Meeting (PFD)

 
ATTENDANCE
 
On March 29, 2023, Governor Healy approved an extension to remote and hybrid meeting options for public bodies established under Former Governor Baker's Executive Order of March 12, 2020 Suspending Certain Provisions of the Open Meeting Law through March 31, 2025. The Public Facilities Commission (PFC) will continue to conduct its meetings virtually. This enables the PFC to conduct its usual business while adhering to public health recommendations and ensuring public access to its deliberations through adequate,...
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    03/24/2025 - 7:21AM
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Paris Street Pool Renovation

We performed a comprehensive renovation of the BCYF Paris Street Pool.

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Project Phase

Project Information

Project Type
Community Centers
Location
113 Paris Street
Neighborhood
East Boston
Expected Year to be Completed
2023

Interior renovations included an addition for a new pool filter system and major heating, ventilation, and air conditioning upgrades with new dehumidifications. This project is complete.

Who's Involved

Public Facilities
617-635-0412
Boston Centers for Youth and Families
617-635-4920
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East Boston Senior Center

We performed a comprehensive renovation and addition to the former Orient Heights Library to convert to the East Boston Senior Center.

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Project Phase

Project Information

Project Type
Community Centers
Location
7 Bayswater Street
Neighborhood
East Boston
Expected Year to be Completed
2022
Project Features
Community engagement

Who's Involved

Public Facilities
617-635-0412
Boston Centers for Youth and Families
617-635-4920
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East Boston Police Station

We built a new police station in East Boston.

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Project Phase

Project Information

Project Type
Other Public Facilities
Location
69 Paris Street
Neighborhood
East Boston
Expected Year to be Completed
2023

Highlights of the building include enhanced community access and improved dispatch response times. This is a sustainable, resilient facility. The project is complete.

Who's Involved

Public Facilities
617-635-0412
Police
617-343-4500
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DigLit 2.0 Launch and Panel

March 20, 2025
2025-03-20T10:00:00 - 2025-03-20T12:00:00

The Worker Empowerment Learning Lab and Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley will launch the DigLit 2.0 initiative on Thursday, March 20 at the East Boston YMCA on Ashley Street. DigLit 2.0 is a capacity-building initiative aimed at enhancing the ability of occupational training providers to deliver digital literacy. The launch event will feature a moderated panel discussion on how digital technologies and AI are shaping job roles, changing workforce needs, and driving successful alignment efforts between employers and training providers.

View the event agenda here.

March 20, 2025
2025-03-20T10:00:00 - 2025-03-20T12:00:00
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Conservation Commission Public Hearing

ATTENTION: This meeting will be held virtually and not in person. You can participate in the meeting by going to our online meeting or calling 929-205-6099 and entering Meeting ID 868 0172 3247 #. Interpretation, translation, and disability accommodation services are available to you at no cost. If you need them, please contact us at cc@boston.gov, LCA@boston.gov, or ...

The public can offer testimony.
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    03/12/2025 - 9:52AM
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Village Vibes: East Boston

May 21, 2025
  • 3:00pm - 6:30pm
  • Bruschi Park
    Central Square
    East Boston,
  • Contact:
    Daniel Hudson
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  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    East Boston
  • Event Type:
    Civic Engagement
  • Posted:
2025-05-21T15:00:00 - 2025-05-21T18:30:00

Each year, the Mayor’s Community Safety Team conducts engagements across the city preparing the “Summer Safety Plan”. In 2024, we heard from community members that they often felt out of the loop as far as  being informed about what was happening in their neighborhood once summer came around. 

As a direct response, the Community Safety Team began to organize Village Vibes. These events are meant to bring community members together in places central to the neighborhood, and by having City departments alongside neighborhood-specific groups, we can make sure residents are informed about everything from speedbumps to summer camps well ahead of time. 

Village Vibes are about bringing together community members, and uplifting from the sense of familiarity and trust that neighbors bring to continue to keep our neighborhoods safe and informed. 

If you'd like your organization to be represented at this event, sign up for Village Vibes in your neighborhood, submit your information via the Google Forms Link below. 

Sign Up

 

May 21, 2025
  • 3:00pm - 6:30pm
  • Bruschi Park
    Central Square
    East Boston,
  • Contact:
    Daniel Hudson
  • send an email
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    East Boston
  • Event Type:
    Civic Engagement
  • Posted:
2025-05-21T15:00:00 - 2025-05-21T18:30:00
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Maverick Square Transportation Action Plan

Building on visioning in PLAN: East Boston, we're advancing ideas to improve safety, connectivity, and placemaking in Maverick Square.

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Project Phase

Project Information

Project Type
Streets
Location
Maverick Square
Neighborhood
East Boston
Expected Year to be Completed
2026

The City of Boston's Transportation Department (BTD) is leading this transportation action plan. Our goal for this project is to strengthen the area surrounding Maverick Station. We're developing ideas to improve safety, increase connectivity, and support public life and business activity.

  • Maintain and uplift the vibrancy that makes Maverick Square a great place
  • Increase the comfort, safety, attractiveness, and accessibility of walking, biking, taking transit, and lingering in Maverick Square
  • Advance proposals in deep collaborative partnership with local residents, community leaders, stakeholders, and businesses.

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SPRING 2025 UPDATE

Contact: Transportation

We're excited to announce the start of our project!

In March, we started our outreach process. We have a partner helping us connect with residents, Openbox, a community-centered design and planning group. They're helping us take a personal approach to community engagement, using targeted outreach to hear from community members who tend to be less able or inclined to participate in traditional engagement events, like town halls and open houses. Specifically, we've been hosting in-depth individual and small group conversations, in particular with transit riders, service workers, students and teachers. 

We will also host public meetings over the course of the project to hear from the wider community and keepeveryone informed. For more information, read our timeline and FAQs below.

illustration of Maverick Square as project logo

PROJECT GOALS

Project Goals
UPLIFT THE VIBRANCY OF MAVERICK SQUARE

Maverick Square is a key gateway to East Boston. It's one of the most vibrant commercial squares in the City. This project will use transportation planning to support placemaking and community development.

MAKE IT EASIER TO WALK, BIKE, AND TAKE TRANSIT

This project will increase safety for all users, first and foremost. Importantly, too, will be improvements to transit operations at the busy Maverick Station, 

CLOSELY COLLABORATE WITH RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES

We will ensure that community input is incorporated at every stage of the project. We'll only be successful if we work together to develop visions to improve and invest in the transportation networks and public realm of Maverick Square.

TIMELINE

PLAN: East Boston included an initial look at East Boston. Now, we're ready to advance those ideas:

  1. Background research: For the first few months of 2025, we're reviewing existing plans and conditions on the ground in Maverick Square. We're working to make sure we understand all that we need to before proposing changes to how the streets work.
  2. Initial community engagement: Beginning in March, we're hosting in-depth conversations with individual and small groups of residents from specific, harder-to-reach populations to understand their current experiences and perceptions of Maverick Square.
  3. Interactive update: In April, we'll publish an interactive website where community members can review information and provide input between public meetings.
  4. Public meeting 1: Around early May, we'll hold a public meeting where we introduce the project more broadly to residents, share learnings from our review of the existing conditions, and share next steps with community members.
  5. Testing early ideas: During the summer, we'll gather iterative feedback from residents and passersby through early sketches, simulations, and interactive activities to ensure our ideas are headed in the right direction.
  6. Public meeting 2: Later in the summer, we'll present the first draft of our concept designs to gather community feedback.

Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently Asked Questions
Contact: Transportation

No recommendations have been made yet. We will begin the process with in-depth conversations with East Boston community members and assess Maverick Square’s existing conditions before ideas are proposed.

This 9-month-long project will result in a “25% concept design plan,” a set of early proposals for the main interventions we hope to build. Any potential changes will go through further testing and refinement in the future before they’re constructed.

We’ve made no proposals to remove or change parking at this time. Any changes will be made in partnership with the community. There are many ways we can improve traffic, make it safer, more comfortable to linger, and park and do business. For this project, we will explore ways that make sense in Maverick Square.

PLAN: East Boston was adopted in 2024 and led by the Boston Planning Department. The plan outlines recommendations for neighborhood improvements throughout East Boston and a brief proposal on ways to enhance the plaza at the center of Maverick Square. For this project, we plan to assess the Square more deeply and work with the community to understand what should be improved in the Square.

No, this project is focused on road safety and connectivity specifically in Maverick Square.

We have hired a team of engineers and planners (Bowman), landscape architects (kmdg), and community engagement specialists (Openbox) to leverage their expertise to complete this project with us.

Please see our timeline above.

Sign up to our email list and come to our public meetings! We'll post here when we have specific dates for our meetings.

GET INVOLVED

We're interested in hearing from you! As soon as we have more information on all the different ways you can get involved, we'll update this section. For now, you can provide your email using the link below, and we'll share information about public meetings and other project-specific details as we have them. 

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Feel free to send the project team an email at maverickTAP@boston.gov, too!

PROJECT MATERIALS

Project Materials

Read more about the plan at this link.

Read more about the visions for Maverick Square laid out in the plan at these links (English and Español).

Who's Involved

Transportation
617-635-4680
Streets Cabinet
617-635-4680
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Improvements to McLean Playground

McLean Playground will finally get the facelift it deserves! BPRD is currently in the process of securing construction funding.

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Construction Documentation is nearly complete! The Parks Department is currently in the process of securing construction funding.

Project Information

Project Type
Parks and Green Space
Location
550 Bennington Street
Neighborhood
East Boston
Expected Year to be Completed
2027
Project Features
Accessibility
Community engagement
Demolition and construction
Green infrastructure
Infrastructure improvements
Landscaping
Mobility
Playgrounds
Resiliency
Sports fields and courts
Sustainability

McLean Playground, established in 1917, is located on busy Bennington Street, adjacent to and heavily used by the Excel Academy middle school students before, during, and after the school day. The playground offers a number of mature shade trees and is a green haven in a dense neighborhood. The Parks Department is excited to work on this project and provide improvements that will benefit the school and the community. 

Project features:

  • Green Infrastructure and tree preservation
  • Basketball court
  • New bicycle track
  • Multi-use Sport Court
  • Playground
  • Seating and amenities

Consultant: Crowley Cottrell Landscape Architects

Contractor: To be determined

McLean

Upcoming meetings

Related information

Design meeting #3 Presentation (March 1, 2023)
Design meeting #3 notes (March 1, 2023)

Videos

Design Meeting #2 (December 13, 2022)

The project team presented design concepts and community provided feedback.

Who's Involved

Parks and Recreation
617-635-4505
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PJ Kennedy School

Earlier facilities work to replace the boilers at the PJ Kennedy School prompted further work needed to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

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Project Phase

Project Information

Project Type
Schools
Location
343 Saratoga Street
Neighborhood
East Boston
Expected Year to be Completed
To be determined

To ensure ADA compliance, we have dedicated more than $16 million in FY23 for a large-scale renovation, including:

  • a new entranceway and playground
  • trees and plantings
  • a school garden and fencing
  • lighting and security cameras, and
  • new and renovated interior spaces.

Construction is underway as of April 2024 and is projected to be completed by school year 2025-2026.

Community Engagement

October 24, 2024

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Community Meeting (English & Spanish) Presentation

October 24, 2024

recording

Community Meeting (Recording)

October 24, 2024

presentation

Community Meeting (English & Chinese) Presentation

April 11, 2024

Presentation

Community Meeting (English & Spanish) Presentation

May 2, 2023

Presentation

Community Meeting (English & Spanish) Presentation

May 2, 2023

Recording

Community Meeting Recording

December 12, 2022

Presentation

Community Meeting (English & Spanish) Presentation

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Who's Involved

Schools
617-635-9000
Mayor's Office
617-635-4500
Public Facilities
617-635-0412
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