Supporters reach out to Attorney General to save hospital garden
The Prouty Garden at the Boston Children’s Hospital is a half-acre historic haven that could be demolished to make space for a new clinical building. Now, its supporters have asked Attorney General Maura Healey to stop that from happening, according to WBUR.
Members of the Friends of Prouty Garden group filed a letter with Healey’s office urging those who deal with nonprofits and charities to take the case, WBUR reports, since the garden was a charitable gift to the hospital.
The group’s attorneys argue that destroying it would be a “violation of the terms’’ of the gift.
In April, the Boston Landmarks Commission voted 7 to 1 to deny landmark status to the garden. Many have spoken out that the hospital should keep the garden; In a Boston Globe op-ed, Boston Children’s Hospital’s Elaine C. Meyer wrote that the hospital “needs to wake up and recognize its infinite value and save the garden.’’
Charles Weinstein, chief of real estate at Children’s Hospital, thinks it should be removed.
“Our clinical building cannot be built without the removal of the garden,’’ he said in April. “I want you to honestly consider the real-life health care consequences of not being able to expand our inpatient care to meet the needs of sick kids.’’
Read the full WBUR article here.
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