LONGWOOD COLLECTIVE JOINS PARTNERS TO BREAK GROUND ON GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE PILOT PROJECT
The Longwood Collective, the chief planner and principal steward of the Longwood Medical and Academic Area (LMA), today broke ground on a green infrastructure initiative: a bioswale pilot project on Avenue Louis Pasteur. This three-year initiative, supported by the City of Boston’s Edward Ingersoll Browne Fund, will harvest rainwater, promote resilient vegetation, reduce polluted runoff, and replace four aging trees at the end of their lifecycle. The bioswale will serve as both a functional stormwater management system and a living demonstration of how sustainable infrastructure can transform an urban streetscape.
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