Langone Park & Puopolo Playground

In collaboration with the Boston Parks and Recreation Department (BPRD), Weston & Sampson led the community outreach, design, permitting, and construction for the comprehensive renewal of this 4.5-acre signature waterfront park in Boston’s historic North End.

Once the site of the Great Molasses Flood of 1919, Langone Park & Puopolo Playground is now the active recreation lifeline for Boston’s most densely developed community, with no other field assets located within the area; it provides critical, equitable active and passive recreation opportunities to a diverse, multi-generational population. The park is also an important link within Boston’s Harborwalk, a network of publicly accessible corridors that provide the interface between public and private properties and access to Boston Harbor. Weston & Sampson’s interdisciplinary design approach, from initial concepts and schematic design to final documentation and construction, included cohesive collaboration with the city and leveraged the unique, dynamic history of the site and now as a climate-resilient signature waterfront park.