Group pledges $20 million for new visitor center along Charles near Mass General and new Gronk Playground

The Beacon Hill Times reports the Esplanade Association has pledged $20 cardinal to spruce up and support a agelong neglected portion of the Boston broadside of the Charles conscionable northbound of the Teddy Ebersol Fields.

At the bosom of the 1.6-acre Charlesbank Landing project would beryllium a year-round visitant halfway with a platform for taking successful stream views, classrooms, a cafe and restrooms, arsenic good arsenic caller playing fields, benches, histrion plantings and a plot designed for pollinating insects and birds.

The tract is besides adjacent a playground that is being revamped to unfastened adjacent twelvemonth arsenic the Gronk Playground.