The Authority is sending the request to approximately 160 design firms around the country and around the world. The list is comprised of firms that expressed interest in designing the corridor as well as firms that the Authority believe qualify to contend for the contract.
This first contract is for two parcels in the North End totaling two acres and which the Master plan for the Artery designates as parks. The other two contracts will be for a one-acre in Chinatown and four acres in the Wharf district.
The designers will have to follow the parameters set out for the Artery in the Master Plan that was first unveiled last spring. The plan focuses on eight parcels on seven acres that are designated open space according to the Article 49 zoning code.
In addition to the parks in the North End, the plan proposes a string of connecting parks in the middle along the Wharf District and a park in the Chinatown District. A new thoroughfare will bracket the parks. In addition to these eight parcels, the Surface Artery has 13 parcels--that total about 14 acres--which will be developed for residential, commercial and retail sites.
The plan was unveiled amidst ongoing controversy over who would oversee the land—the Turnpike Authority, the state or the city. Recently, Mayor Thomas Menino and House Speaker Thomas Finneran said that they had agreed to create a board that would oversee the Surface Artery.
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