CityLab Fall 2023 - East Boston: Columbus Waterfront Park

"From project start to completion, Sasaki worked collaboratively with city agencies and community groups to create a park that works for both tourists and locals from the North End and waterfront communities. The original Sasaki design has been significantly modified over the years, though segments of the project’s iconic trellis remain, providing shade and spectacular views to the harbor..."

"In 1974 the landscape architecture firm Sasaki, Dawson & DeMay created a waterfront park on filled land that became the harbor’s public access point. The design drew on the site’s history, using cobblestones and brick paving, wooden structures, and a bollard-and-chain system along the water to mimic the old bulkhead. On the nation’s bicentennial, thousands watched from the newly dedicated park as the “Tall Ships” paraded into Boston Harbor. In 1999 a new design by the landscape architecture firm Halvorson Company saw the installation of a new performance area and additional lawn space that opened up views of the harbor."

October 5, 2020
"Mayor Marty Walsh announced on Monday evening to the North End/ Waterfront Neighborhood Council (NEWNC) that the fragile condition of the Columbus statue after its recent beheading by vandals means that it will not be returning to its pedestal in Christopher Columbus Park..."