Thursday, 4:30 PM
A downtown park with a touch of feng shui
(MassPike photo)
By Globe Staff
It's not your typical, old-fashioned city park. A portion of a new park to be opened in Chinatown tomorrow has been designed using the principles of feng shui, the Chinese art of placing things in order to create harmony.
The park also includes a fountain running over smooth stones and an artificial stream. And at one end, there's a modern version of the gate that marked the entrance to Chinatown for many years.
The one-acre space is one of a series of parks planned for the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway.
The park, which cost $4.5 million to build, is the southernmost of several that have been made possible by the Big Dig, which removed the elevated north-south highway that ran through the city's downtown, placing it in a tunnel.
The opening of the Chinatown park is the first of a series of openings that will happen throughout the next two months on the greenway, said Mac Daniel, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority.
The 1 p.m. ceremony tomorrow will include the mayor, the lieutenant governor, and other dignitaries.
