Politics & Government
City Seeks Ideas for New Symphony Park
The East Somerville park, honoring a musical Somerville family, could open in 2015.
The city is holding a meeting Thursday to collect ideas for a new park in East Somerville.
Symphony Park will be built at the intersection of Pearl and Florence streets and could be open by summer of 2015.
See: $400,000 Grant Earmarked for East Somerville Park >>
In addition to a $400,000 grant from the state, Somerville has received $225,000 in federal Community Development Block Grant funds to build the new park.
According to an announcement from the city, Somerville-based GroundView, the same landscape architecture firm that designed the new and acclaimed Chuckie Harris Park, will present preliminary design ideas for Symphony Park to spark discussion.
The park is being built at the site of the former Conant-Hadley House, which stood on the parcel from 1853 to 2008, when it burned down, according to a presentation delivered in July.
The announcement says the Hadleys led the Somerville public school system's music program for 60 years and that two Hadley brothers were prominent musicians: Arthur Hadley was lead cellist in the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Henry Hadley began the Berkshire Symphonic Festival at Tanglewood and founded the National Association for American Composers and Conductors.
The name, Symphony Park, honors that musical legacy, the announcement says.
Thursday's meeting will take place at 6 p.m. in the community room of Bryant Manor, 75 Myrtle St.
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