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Planning Firm Designated for Fairmount Indigo Planning Initiative

May 17, 2012

The Cecil Group has been designated to assist the BRA with the Fairmount Indigo Planning Initiative. The two year BRA study will look at short and long term strategies for improving capital investment and job access along the 9.2 mile Fairmount Indigo commuter rail line, which links South Station to Readville, crossing through Roxbury, Dorchester, Mattapan, and Hyde Park. The Cecil Group is an internationally renowned planning firm. They will assist the BRA in identifying two additional crossroads locations along the corridor to focus the study and assist in identifying corridor wide opportunities for commercial and residential development, transit access, public realm enhancements, and community building initiatives. The Cecil Group brings with them the following highly renowned team of consultants: HDR, Byrne McKinney, McMahon Associates, SAS Design, The BioEngineering Group, and Shook Kelley.  On October 20, 2011 the BRA issued an RFP to engage a consultant team in the preparation of the Fairmount Indigo Planning Initiative. The RFP selection committee made up of staff from the BRA, Boston Transportation Department, Public Works Department and Department of Neighborhood Development evaluated the proposals based on the following criteria: qualifications and experience, technical qualifications, consultant team composition, project manager qualifications, availability and responsiveness, and allocation of resources and schedule. As a result of this evaluation, the Cecil Group was selected.  The Fairmount Indigo Planning Initiative is the BRA’s largest planning study to date.  It will impact 190,000 residents, or nearly one third of Boston’s population, who live within a half-mile of the commuter rail line.  The study will identify corridor wide opportunities for commercial and residential development, transit access, public realm enhancements, and community building initiatives.  The average annual income along the corridor is $8,400 and one in three residents is under the age of 18.  This study will lay the groundwork for new opportunities to improve resident quality of life.

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