5th Anniversary Celebration of Community Preservation Act

The walking tour will kick off at 12:30 p.m. with the groundbreaking for a CPA-funded affordable housing project at 163 Glen St. This former American Legion Post is being transformed to eight affordable homeownership units and three market rate homeownership units by the Somerville Community Corporation. The tour will then move on to other CPA project sites, including the historic Grace Baptist Church, home to the Somerville Hispanic Association for Community Development (SHA4CD), the East Somerville Community School Garden, the Somerville Central Library, and finally the Community Growing Center on Vinal Ave.

 

The Desperate Measures Street Band will then lead a procession from the Community Growing Center to Prospect Hill Park to start the community celebration, which will begin at 2:30 p.m. CPA funds were used to stabilize the Prospect Hill Tower and are making a redesign of the park possible. The celebration will feature music, lawn games, and refreshments. CPA projects will be featured at tables throughout the event and the tower will be open for tours. There will be a brief speaking program featuring Somerville elected officials and individuals and organizations that supported CPA when it was on the ballot in 2012. Local historian Larry Willwerth will be on hand to tell the history of Prospect Hill, where George Washington ordered the raising of the Grand Union flag on January 1, 1776, to raise the spirits of the colonial militia that retreated to the hill following the Battle of Bunker Hill.

 

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