Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agreement signed by Logue is just a promise by the BRA to erect 400 units of housing on part of a 57.3 renewal site called Madison Park and to consult with the LRCC about development plans for the area. But that promise was at least six months in coming...
...Madison Park has been slated for destruction since 1948 when it was first included in plans for the yet unbuilt Inner Belt. For nearly two years the BRA has had its eye on the dilapiated area, which houses about 300 families...
According to one official, BRA studies showed that Madison Park was "residual area." "The only ones left in this neighborhood," he said, "are the ones who couldn't get out." Original BRA plans suggested that the area would be best used for non-residential purposes...
Last winter the Boston School Committee was looking for a site on which to build an elaborate new campus-style high school. The BRA prepared plans using 35 acres of Madison Park for the high school and devoting a great deal of the remaining land to industry. The School Committee voted last February 22 to put the high school in Madison Park, but to devote all the area's acreage to the school...
...Madison Park residents said little while these proposals were being discussed in City Hall and at School Committee headquarters. The lack of commotion, especially since people were going to be relocated, seemed to confirm BRA findings that Madison Park was a neighborhood but not a community...