Glen Park Community Garden Expansion

After going through a careful process, the City has contracted with J.J. Phelan & Son Co., Inc. Construction will begin in November and you may start to see them mobilizing on site in the next few weeks.

To celebrate the start of this work, we will hold a groundbreaking ceremony on November 20th at 2pm (rain date: November 21st at 12pm) on the 5 Palmer Avenue property. Please come join us! All are welcome. This is an exciting moment to see Community Preservation Act dollars at work and to celebrate the addition of 18 new community garden beds for community use and benefit.

The designers at WOLA have completed their drawings and the Invitation to Bid (or IFB) is now live. In just a couple weeks, we'll have proposals from interested contractors and we'll begin the process of selecting one to construct the project. This is an exciting moment and we look forward to beginning this work in the fall.

If you're interested, you can find the IFB on the City's Procurement website here: https://www.somervillema.gov/departments/finance/purchasing/bids/ifb-24-19

Stay tuned for more updates!

The City of Somerville staff and the team at WOLA are working diligently to refine the design for this community garden expansion project. This phase is important to do with careful attention to detail to ensure that construction goes smoothly. Once these plans are finalized, we'll put the project out to bid to find a suitable contractor to see the project through to completion. We're getting close and we're very excited to see this project get underway!

You can find a nearly complete draft of the design plans under "Documents."

The design team at Wright Ostermier Landscape Architects (WOLA) has been hard at work turning the design concept into construction-ready plans. Take a look under the documents tab for a 75% complete draft!