Urban River Visions 2, an initiative of the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, selected Pittsfield as one of seven cities to help create a vision “to
Explaining the process.
capitalize on the potential of underutilized riverfront sites”.
Quite a crowd of people, mostly from the neighborhoods along the West Branch of the Housatonic River, gathered at Pitt Park in Pittsfield on Friday, May 11 to give their input into the Urban River Visions 2 Charrette.
The evening started off with an amazing performance by Youth Alive, Pittsfield’s step dance and drumming performing group, organized by Shirley Edgerton.
Youth Alive
There were different kinds of maps and aerial photos of the area from Wahconah Park down
Lots of Notes
to Clapp Park, hung on the walls of the amphitheater. People gathered and put stickers on
their houses or sticky-notes where they thought something should happen. The following day we moved into Conte School.