Happenings
Copps Hill Cemetery Historic Fence Restoration
Located on the Boston Freedom Trail, Copp's Hill Burial Ground is visited by thousands of tourists annually and has burials dating back to 1659. The cast iron fencing around the site, originally installed in the 1850s had fallen into disrepair such that design and specification of restoration plan was warranted. Under contract with the Boston…Read More
City Hall Plaza Accessibility Improvements
Under an on-call contract with the City of Boston, BSC provided design services to the City for accessibility improvements at City Hall Plaza. The project involved working with the Mayor’s Commission for Persons with Disabilities, and designing accessibility improvements to the large open space at Government Center that makes up City Hall Plaza. The plaza…Read More
Charles H. Barrows STEM Academy
BSC provided ecological, survey, civil engineering, and landscape architecture services for design of the new Environmental and Cultural Magnet School in Windham, CT. Situated on a wooded 20-acre site, the new school embodies the concept of an environmental responsibility, low impact design while serving a student population of approximately 600 students in grades pre-K through…Read More
Acorn Park
BSC has transformed a parking lot into a space to serve both its users and the natural ecology of the riparian corridor it occupies. Located along the Little River, Acorn Park includes a field, trails, a pond, and a conservation area. The wetland ponds and islands provide habitat and visual interest as well as a…Read More
Quincy Center Urban Renewal Plan
BSC Group worked with the City of Quincy to develop an Urban Revitalization Plan (URP). With guidance from a robust public engagement process and a detailed assessment and analysis of exiting conditions, including zoning, infrastructure, building conditions, parking and traffic, BSC developed a plan and strategy to achieve the revitalization vision. Beginning this transformation is…Read More
Glenwood Cemetery Master Plan
BSC prepared a highly detailed master plan for Glenwood Cemetery in Everett, a 130-year-old, 21-acre cemetery. At the commencement of the project the cemetery had no grave space available and limited open land to expand into grave space. The master plan included the compiling of various GIS data, a complete aerial topographic mapping of the…Read More
Evergreen Cemetery Master Plan
BSC Group prepared a detailed master plan for the City of Marlborough’s 68-acre Evergreen Cemetery. The master plan included the compiling of various GIS data including two-foot contour intervals and wetlands mapping, site observations, soil testing, and existing burial area documentation which was then used to complete a master plan for the remaining grave space…Read More
Mountain View Cemetery Master Plan
BSC Group was retained by the Town of Shrewsbury to provide a master plan for the 23-acre Mountain View Cemetery and the adjacent Masonic Land. The plan identified the current cemetery operations, the remaining sales life of the existing cemetery, an analysis of the future cemetery industry trends, an evaluation of the masonic property, and…Read More
Expansion Plan for Fairview and Mount Hope Cemetery
BSC Group was retained by the City of Boston Public Works Department to design a master plan for a two-acre cemetery expansion and gateway improvements at the Mount Hope cemetery located in Roslindale as well as a master plan a three-acre cemetery expansion at the Fairview Cemetery located in Hyde Park. Comprehensive services provided by…Read MorePages: