BOSTON-A move by a transportation and turnpike official to wrest control of three key parcels on the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway that are earmarked for a winter garden may soon spark a battle with the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. The society has been charged with developing a Garden Under Glass on the site.

The society’s executive director, Thomas Herrera-Mishler, tells GlobeSt.com that the organization has no plans to surrender the parcels, despite a plan by John Cogliano, state transportation secretary and chairman of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, to remove the land from horticultural society control.

“I don’t think the Turnpike Authority should be allowed to step away from the commitment they made to the citizens of Boston,” says Herrera-Mishler. “It’s all just politics and not in the best interest of the city or its citizens.”

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