""Somebody a long time ago made a big mistake," Fred Hogan said as he stood on the shoreline hereand looked out across the Atlantic Ocean. Depending on where you look, you can see Nahant, some of the Harbor Islands, and, in the distance, the Boston skyline. The mistake is behind him. Or it was. And as the Lynn city councilor turned around to look at the brand-new Lynn Harbor Park, he kind of shook his head."
"About a decade ago, a company named Charter Development was brought in to shore up and cap the failing landfill, which presented all sorts of environmental concerns due to its proximity to the ocean. That's when Bob Delhome, the founder of Charter, approached city officials with an audacious idea - instead of just capping the landfill and fencing it off forever, what if we turned it into ... a park?"
The Lynn waterfront was once dominated by a massive, festering landfill that isolated the community from its coastline and required more than a million tons of soil to cover. Charter Development was hired to stabilize and cap the failing site, prompting founder Bob Delhome to propose converting the capped landfill into a public park. The project drew inspiration from Spectacle Island and enlisted landscape architects Brown, Richardson + Rowe. A complex public-private partnership with city and state agencies enabled the transformation. A 30-acre Lynn Harbor Park opened with a ribbon-cutting scheduled for September 23, beginning waterfront revitalization.
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