Piers Park III 'a meaningful example of providing environmental justice to a community that has been short-changed for too long'

U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Edward Markey, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, State Senator Lydia Edwards, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, Massachusetts Undersecretary of Environment Gary Moran, Rep. Adrian Madaro, District 1 City Councilor Gabriela "Gigi" Coletta, and representatives from Massport joined The Trustees on Friday to celebrate $2 million in federal funding awarded to Piers Park III.

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Vision behind Trustees founding turns 132

On March 5, 1890, a letter written by Charles Eliot entitled “The Waverley Oaks,” was published in Garden and Forest, raising concerns about Boston’s dwindling public open space. In his letter Eliot proposes a model of permanent trusteeship—a vision that led him to found The Trustees the following year.

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