Lawn on D lives: The South Boston park will be back next spring
Despite financial shortfalls, it’s set to reopen next season.
After getting plenty of attention from locals and even some love from The New York Times travel section this past season, the Lawn on D will reopen next spring, even though the park’s financial future isn’t set, The Boston Globe reports.
The South Boston hangout has been in peril since it opened, despite a calendar full of impressive events and a series of public art projects. The Massachusetts Convention Center Authority, which owns and operates Lawn on D, decided to move forward with the park for 2016, although the agency spent $2 million more than the revenue it collected to run the lawn over the past year, according to the Globe.
Chief Strategy Officer Johanna Storella detailed a plan in a presentation to MCCA board members on Monday for how the park could become self-sufficient in the next few years, the Globe reports. Storella said she hopes the park, now two years old, can break even by 2019.
Kristen Lepore, Governor Charlie Baker’s top budget aide and a member of the MCCA board, told the Globe that “the goal is to keep Lawn on D open while moving toward self sufficiency.’’
Read more at the Globe, and keep on the lookout for events at the Southie space.
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