Franklin Street Park

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Entrance to the Franklin Street Park

Franklin Street Park is an urban neighborhood park in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The park is a house-sized lot in the Riverside neighborhood on 495 Franklin Street between Bay Street and Hancock Street.

Interior of the Franklin Street Park

The site that the park now inhabits used to be an unused area paved with concrete.[1] The site measured 4,400 square feet (410 m2), which downsloped from the street into a dark and overgrown plot that had become a campsite for the homeless.[2]

To improve this situation the Cambridge Community Development Department began renovations in 2002.[1] These renovations had the stated goal of transforming the park into a small urban oasis.[1]

The Cambridge Community Development Department finished renovations in 2003.[1]

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