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Monitor Daily Intro for August 4, 2017
Mark Sappenfield
Chalk a win up for teen sleuths.聽The group of Boston teenagers were just looking for some money for a recreation center and ice rink in the neighborhood, which has 26,000 black and Latino youth within 1-1/2 miles and hasn鈥檛 had such a facility for decades.
So they did a little sleuthing, and what they found would have made Woodward and Bernstein proud. The TD Garden, which hosts the Boston Celtics and Bruins, hadn鈥檛 fulfilled a promise to host fundraisers for the city鈥檚 Department of Conservation and Recreation 鈥� for 23 years.
So the TD Garden announced Friday that it would pay $1.65 million to help fund a $30 million youth rec center in the city鈥檚 Jamaica Plain neighborhood. The kids鈥� response? By their calculation, TD Garden owes the city more than $13 million. 鈥淲e need the money, and you need to keep up to your promise,鈥� one teen leader said at a press conference.
A nonprofit community developer says it can start construction next year if it can raise the rest of the money. As the saying goes, it never would have happened without those meddling kids.
