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A new park in Newton?

... or a new field of wildflowers inside a highway cloverleaf
(the site of the old Pillar House )

In 2008, the Mass Highway Department tore up this meadow to use it as a construction staging area for the repaving of Route 128. The department plans to restore the meadow after the project is completed: "The green space intent for the property is certainly recognized, and that's what the long-term intent is," said [the state spokesman]. "The contractor is obligated to return the site as they found it, and replant anything that may have been disturbed in the process." Source

Photos of the meadow on Flickr

Pillar House website

 

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