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Article: State slates $5m for new Neponset park ; Also to renovate Hyde Park shell

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April 22, 2008
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For years, the images of birds, fish, and flowers on the Martini Shell have been a blur of peeling paint, graffiti, and rot. Now, the state plans to revitalize the performance space and the surrounding area along the Neponset River.

State officials are scheduled to announce today a $5 million effort to build a new park - to be called the Neponset River Esplanade - along the river between Mattapan Square and Hyde Park, more money than the state has spent on any urban park since the Rose Kennedy Greenway over the Central Artery in Boston.

Plans for the 3-mile park along Truman Parkway include extending the bike and pedestrian pathway from Mattapan Square to the Martini Shell, adding a canoe ...

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