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A green barrier: To replace decrepit Bunker Hill complex, developers say, 250 trees must fall
By David Abel Globe Staff,Updated March 7, 2021, 4:52 p.m.
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To make way for the long-delayed replacement of Charlestownâs Bunker Hill public housing complex, the developer and city officials have said they must remove about 250 of the mature trees.David L. Ryan/Globe Staff
With the Tobin Bridge looming above and a vast expanse of asphalt below, the towering maples, elms, and hundreds of other decades-old shade trees supply fresh air and a hint of grace to a bleak stretch of urban decay in Charlestown.