Vacant Lot Visioning Event!

On July 31st, we held an event at the vacant lot at 381 Park Street in Dorchester to begin to activate the space and start a community process. Our aim is to generate conversation about the future of two vacant lots on this street, 381 and 357 Park Street. BNCLT has acquired a one-year license to use 381 Park Street for the purpose of engaging the neighborhood in visioning around vacant land, and activating the space with gardening and art installations. After door knocking and flyering in the neighborhood, around twenty people attended the event. With teamwork and persistence, we constructed a garden bed together!

Neighbors were meeting each other for the first time and sharing their ideas for the future of the vacant lots. This was also an opportunity to learn and share testimony about Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act. Neighbors were thinking ahead to what the next event could be. The group walked down the street and visited the vacant lot at 357 Park Street as well, which is adjacent to a BNCLT property, to begin conversation around that space as well. This event brought people together around the beginnings of a vision.