summer/fall 2005
awards North End Parks won a Merit Award from the Boston Society of Landscape Architects in the Unbuilt category.
presentations

APTA (American Public Transportation Association)
Skip Smallridge presented "Protecting the Long Range Opportunities: The Minneapolis Intermodal Transportation Center" at the Intermodal Operations Planning Workshop in Minneapolis in August.

Walk Boston / Artery Business Committee
Skip Smallridge presented "Boston Tops" an architectural history walk through downtown Boston in August.
  spring 2005
presentations The Landscape Institute, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University Cambridge, MA
Deneen Crosby and Kaki Martin presented at the Planting the Urban Landscape Symposium on March 4, 2005.
project
milestones

The Victory Park (Medford, MA) opening was held on Sunday, June 12, 2005 at noon.

Yerxa Road Construction began in Spring 2005.

North End Parks, part of the Rose Kennedy Greenway (Boston, MA), construction began April 11, 2005.
staff
achievements

Josh Burgel is an instructor at The Boston Architectural Center teaching a course on Site Design. Spring 2005 was his 4th semester.

Kaki Martin's site specific installation, Gradient, was one of twelve pieces accepted in the ReVisited exhibit at Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston, MA.
  winter 2005
presentations Urban Land Institute - Boston
Deneen Crosby participated on the Reclaiming the Artery panel on January 27, 2005. The panel explored some of the proposals for the Rose Kennedy Greenway.
  fall 2004
presentations Build Boston
Deneen Crosby participated in the Design Leadership: New Role Models panel at the Women in Design Conference at Build Boston, November 16, 2004.
project
milestones

The Squirrel Brand Park (Cambridge, MA) Opening was held on October 25, 2004.
  summer 2004
presentations

Alabama Institute of Architects
Skip Smallridge gave a presentation on the Boston Central Artery/Tunnel Project (The Big Dig) at the Annual Alabama Institute of Architects Conference in Destin, FL on July 26, 2004.
project
milestones

The Donnelly Field (Cambridge, MA) Opening was held on June 26, 2004.

The Ryan Park (Boston, MA) Opening was held on July 2, 2004.

The Rose Kennedy Greenway (Boston, MA) Dedication was held on July 26, 2004. CSS designed the temporary park for the dedication ceremony featuring Senator Ted Kennedy; The North End Parks, currently in design by CSS in association with Gustafson Guthrie Nichol, is one of the three Greenway parks.
  spring 2004
presentations

American Society for Public Administration Conference
Skip Smallridge presented a paper on the Hartford Busway TOD Project at the Annual ASPA Conference in Portland, OR on March 29, 2004.

American Passenger Transport Bus Rapid Transit Conference
Skip Smallridge presented a paper on the Hartford Busway TOD Project at the Annual APTA Bus Rapid Transit Conference in Denver, CO on May 4, 2004.

American Passenger Transport Association
Skip Smallridge's presentation on the TOD Potential of Bus Rapid Transit at the Annual APTA BRT Conference in Denver, CO was published in the May 17, 2004 edition of Passenger Transport.
staff
achievements		 Kaki Martin was appointed to the Cambridge Conservation Commission.
  fall 2003
presentations Deneen Crosby and Kathryn Gustafson of Gustafson Guthrie Nichol, Seattle, presented the conceptual design for the North End Parks and participated in a panel discussion at the Rose Kennedy Greenway Realizing the Vision Public Forum on October 16, 2003.

Skip Smallridge presented a paper on the Beacon Street LRT Line, Brookline, MA - a very early, very successful transit-oriented development project at the APTA Light Rail Conference in Portland, Oregon on November 17, 2003.

Kaki Martin was on a panel on Getting Fresh in Boston at the Women in Design Conference at Build Boston on November 18, 2003.
 

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