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Charles River Watershed Association receives Boston Foundation grant

Framingham Tab

Friday, March 10, 2006 

Charles River Watershed Association (CRWA), a leading environmental organization headquartered in Weston, has received $75,000 from the Boston Foundation to fund the second year of a three-year project to develop an environmentally sustainable urban development approach for the Boston area.

CRWA is working in three neighborhoods, North Allston, the Longwood Medical and Academic Area (LMA), and Zakim North (in Charlestown, Cambridge and Somerville).

CRWA's project aims to find ways to improve the urban environment, particularly around water and open space issues, and to work directly with residents, businesses, institutions and government agencies to see these ideas implemented.

The three areas CRWA is looking at are all undergoing rapid redevelopment, but are distinctly different urban settings.

Harvard University is building a major new campus in North Allston, an active residential neighborhood. Zakim North is growing into a large new residential and mixed use neighborhood, anchored by the North Point development, in an area that has historically been an underutilized institutional rail and industrial corridor. And the LMA is expanding in an area of existing dense institutional use.

By looking at the urban environment in all three of these areas, CRWA hopes to create an approach that can be applied in many other places.

CRWA sees redevelopment as an opportunity to reverse these trends, and to create an urban landscape that works with the environment rather than against it.

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