BREAKING NEWS: Sawmill Brook Property Acquired!

Beverly 

Holcroft Park 

The project will include renovations to the basketball court and playground; a new pavilion will be installed, along with picnic tables, benches, an embankment slide, and a small playing field next to the basketball court; and entrance, walkway, garden, lighting and fencing improvements. 

$400,200 

Chelsea 

212 Congress Park Development 

The project will include an ADA-compliant path, a splash pad, rubber surfacing with tiered stone seating and shade sail, picnic tables, small fountains and tall misting structures, an open lawn, a central plaza that acts as a protected shade structure, perennial planting beds, 15 new trees, a low fence, and educational and interpretive signage. 

$500,000 

Lunenburg 

Marshall Park 

The project includes constructing a universally accessibly playground, multi-sport courts, and a central pavilion with a concession stand, accessible restrooms, and a shaded picnic pavilion. 

$500,000 

Malden 

Malden River Works 

The project will include shoreline restoration work, site elements such as park benches and bicycle racks, a floating public dock along the Malden River, architectural and engineering consultant fees, and construction management. 

$500,000 

Norwood 

Hawes Pool Renovation 

The project will include the complete renovation of the pool facility and splash pad at Endean Playground. 

$500,000 

Salem 

Salem Willows, Phase II 

The project will remove the expanse of asphalt, pedestrian pathways will be resurfaced and reoriented around a central greenspace, several new trees will be planted, and root zone restoration will be performed for the remaining trees, existing fixtures, including benches and waste receptacles, will be redistributed throughout the site, and conduit will be laid. 

$500,000 

South Hadley 

Buttery Brook Park Improvements Phase 2 

The project will include walking trails, accessible playground equipment, improved access to shelters and other facilities, disc golf, a concert stage and pavilion, basketball court rehabilitation, environmental enhancements, including stream plantings, new tree plantings, tree removal, and environmental education signs/kiosks, and additional pickleball courts.  

$500,000 

Webster 

May St Park 

The project will include renovating the basketball court, two playgrounds, as well as adding playground rubber surfacing, paved perimeter path, and benches. 

$421,209 

Ashfield 

Ashfield Tennis Court Renovation 

The project will revitalize Belding Memorial Park by restoring and repurposing the two existing tennis courts. 

$96,100 

Mendon 

Memorial Park Field Lights 

The project will install field lights at Memorial Park on the Pezzella Baseball Field and Lowell Softball Field. 

$100,000 

Swampscott  

Phillip's Park Pickleball Courts 

The project will construct four new pickleball courts. 

$58,167 

Ware 

Grenville Park Playground 

The project includes building a pavilion, installing four ADA accessible picnic tables and a two-car ADA accessible permeable parking pad and a six-car permeable public parking pad adjacent to the playground, and one ADA accessible piece of playground equipment. 

$97,136 

Haverhill 

Crystal Street Conservation Project 

The purchase of this 35.6-acre property will protect 1,000 feet of water frontage on Crystal Lake, a 175-acre lake that is one of the City’s primary water supplies.  There is currently a central trail system existing on the site; this project will catalyze a trail extension with the existing trail and connections to a landlocked 23.5-acre City-owned parcel that presently lacks feasible public access, contributing to the City's goal of creating a contiguous greenbelt around Crystal Lake. 

$404,231 

Leominster 

Pierce Street Leominster Land Purchase 

This forested property provides a diversity of habitat including vernal pools adjacent to protected agricultural lands to the south and wetlands to the east. The state-protected Massapoag Pond is located just past the Town border in Lunenburg. Confronted with a 22-home subdivision proposed as the alternative, the City is eager to preserve this land as open space. 

 $500,000  

Palmer 

Barker Street Conservation Area 

This 13.3 acres of forested land abuts the Chicopee River, the Red Bridge State Park, and two other town-owned pieces parcels. Preserving this acreage will protect access to approximately 2,500 linear feet of bank associated with the Chicopee River, allowing the existing trail to remain active and available to the public with enhanced maintenance and access. 

 $84,350  

Westfield   

Tekoa Narrows Conservation Area 

Conserving this property will secure rare wildlife habitat along a river corridor and improve connectivity among three additional inaccessible town-owned lands. This property will establish public access to the Westfield River for canoeing, kayaking, or tubing, as well as for fishing from a very accessible location. 

 $56,312  

Westminster 

Therriault Family Conservation Area 

This project will protect 80 acres of NHESP-designated Critical Land, including the cold water fishery of Philips Brook, which is of importance to rare fresh-water species identified in the vicinity. 

 $211,200  

Dunstable 

Morgan's Pond 

Protection of this 4.75-acre parcel will provide access to a Mill Pond that is easily accessed from the road and opportunities for ice skating and fishing. Blandings and other species of turtle have been sighted on this property, and the protection of this property helps ensure water and habitat value for this mill pond that feeds the Salmon River and Town well-field.  

 $37,793  

Barnstable Land Trust, Inc 

Wheeler Holly Preserve Conservation Project 

A 2-acre pondfront parcel will be acquired to extend the 22-acre Fuller Farm conservation area owned by BLT in the historic Pondsville area of Barnstable and a 1/2 mile walking loop trail constructed through thickly wooded upland on Prime Forest Soils, with pitch pine, white pine, white and black oak, several American holly and American beech. 

$175,000 

Buzzards Bay Coalition, Inc. 

Douglass - Nasketucket Bay Conservation Project 

The project will protect a 22.25-acre waterfront property, long managed as a tree farm, expanding an important 397-acre contiguous block of conservation land protecting Sconticut Neck. 

$175,000 

East Quabbin Land Trust, Inc. 

Kingdom of Bale Conservation Donation 

This nearly eight-acre property is part of a larger farm that was never developed with a small stand of mixed hardwoods and is currently managed as a hayfield, mowed twice a year, along with abutting parcels to manage for bobolinks.  The western edge of the parcel abuts the Raccoon Hill WMA and is designated as BioMap Critical Natural Landscape.    

$1,500 

Harwich Conservation Trust 

Squantum Path Conservation Area 

The 10.29-acre property is an upland pine-oak woodland connecting the Punkhorn Parklands, Robbins Pond, and the Herring River Greenbelt, contains priority habitat for Eastern Box Turtle, and is mapped as a forest of statewide and local importance. 

$155,250 

Kestrel Land Trust, Inc. 

Growing Green: Easthampton 

The subject property lies along the south branch of the Manhan River, a tributary of the Connecticut River, and is directly abutting over 50 acres of protected land anchored by the Town of Southampton’s Whitemore Conservation Area and Pascommuck Conservation Trust’s Pomeroy Meadows Conservation Area. 

$175,000 

North County Land Trust 

Monomonac Hill Conservation Partnership 

The parcel is within BioMap's CNL, identified as a Local Rare Species Habitat, and directly drains into Lake Monomonac, a Great Pond. 

$31,200 

The Compact of Cape Cod Conservation Trusts, Inc. 

Pamet River Bank & Marsh 

This acquisition is strategically located between two existing protected land holdings in the river valley. It preserves frontage along a Scenic River and a Scenic Road identified in the Local Comprehensive Plan. 

$175,000