Proposal to provide consulting engineering, landscape architecture, surveying and resident engineering services for south end urban renewal area: shawmut avenue improvements, Upton to east berkeley streets.
Contributors: Carol R. Johnson and Associates, Inc.; Haley & Aldrich.; Lin Associates, Inc.
Published: 1988
Language: eng
Subjects: Cambridge Center / Kendall Square, Cambridge (Mass.); Chesea (Mass.) -- Center City Revitalization.; Development Projects -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- South End -- Street Improvements -- Proposals.; Hazardous waste site remediation -- Massachusetts -- Hanscom AFB.; Rowes Wharf, Boston (Mass.) -- Hazardous Waste -- Cleanup.; Shawmut Avenue, Boston (Mass.) -- Streetscape Improvements -- Proposed.; Streets -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- South End -- Improvements -- Proposals.; East Cambridge (Mass.) -- Road and Riverfront Development.
Description: ...a submission dated 19 December 1988 to the Boston Redevelopment Authority that is an expanded version of their 31 October 1988 submission (kept on BRA/2014) to provide urban design and engineering consulting services for street scape improvements to Shawmut Avenue in Bsoton's South End Historic District; material not contained in the earlier submission includes a fee/rate proposal, a brief description of Center City Revitalization in Chelsea (with color photos) and Cambridge Center/Kendall Square (also with color photos) as well as an illustration and brief description of East Cambridge roads and riverfront development; it also includes a reprint of an article from the January 14, 1988 issue of ENR, the McGraw-Hill Construction Weekly, on some geotechnical engineering firm Haley and Alrich's projects including tunnel excavation for Porter Square Station, hazardous waste cleanup at Hanscom Air Force Base and Rowes Wharf "up-and-down" construction each with color photographs; a color photograph of Shawmut Avenue is afixed to the cover; a copy of this item was in the BRA collection...