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OWNERSHIP:
City of Boston Department of Parks and Recreation

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CONDITIONS:
The Mattahunt area has excellent access to Almont playground, a 17.81-acre park on Almont Street near the intersection with Blue Hill Avenue. Almont includes a tot-lot, two basketball courts, four tennis courts, and a wooded, rocky, moderately sloping wilder area that provides lovely views of the surrounding area. Buildings within the playground are in poor condition and boarded up. The stone wall around the edge of the playground is in excellent condition.

With the help of community activists attempting to counter Mattapan's image as a crime-ridden area there is now a commuinty garden in Almont Park, officially named "Shangri-La Gardens." (Robert Preer, "In Last Bit of Wilderness, Affordable Homes to Sprout," The Boston Globe, October 23, 2005.)

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CONTEXT:
The Almont Playground is located in the Mattahunt section of Mattapan. Mattahunt is a stable residential neighborhood of Mattapan that is comprised almost entirely of one- and two-family homes.

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