Gateway Project Plans Unveiled at CRSVNA Meeting

Project will cost an estimated $1 million.

Speaking on behalf of the Gateway Committee, Charles River/Spring Valley Neighborhood Association President Dennis Orthman detailed preliminary plans for the Gateway Project at the CRSVNA fall meeting at the Boston Lodge of Elks Wednesday night. The project, originally conceived over three years ago, aims to beautify the mostly concrete Spring Street-VFW Parkway intersection that Orthman said, despite serving as the entry to much of West Roxbury's business district, currently "doesn't compliment the river and doesn't compliment the parkway." "Ten thousand cars drive by this area each day," he said. "We'd like to get some of them to think of coming by and spending some money." The Gateway Committee, which is comprised of West Roxbury …

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