[CPEO-BIF] Police station at Modern Electroplating site, Boston, Massachusetts

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Boys in blue go green at new Roxbury station
Top cop says $15M eco-friendly building all about 'community'

By Richard Weir
Boston Herald (MA)
July 31, 2011

It has a roof covered in eco-friendly, drought-resistant sedum  
plants, with a cherry wood lobby and slate floors, which may make  
some criminals think they're being booked at the Cop Mahal. But the  
new $15 million District B2 police station is all about making the  
good people of Roxbury feel welcome.

"This is about more than just a new city building," Mayor Thomas M.  
Menino said at the ribbon-cutting yesterday for the soaring 34,500- 
square-foot, three-story sandstone-encased station built on the once- 
polluted site of the former Modern Electroplating Co. plant. "This  
project is really symbolic of the transformation that's happening in  
Dudley .... What was one of the worst Brownfield sites in our city is  
now a shining example of green building."

Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said the thin blue line's new  
green building, with its airy, windowed lobby and its attractive, sun- 
drenched community room, is a purposeful contrast with its gloomy  
concrete-and-brick predecessor, or as he called it, "the fortress  
next door."

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http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/ 
2011_0731boys_in_blue_go_green_at_new_roxbury_station_top_cop_says_15m_e 
co-friendly_building_all_about_community/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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