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BOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — The Boston’s Children’s Museum was packed on Tuesday for the Boston Waterfront Summit, where people gathered to make some big decisions for the future of Boston Harbor.
Local, State, and Federal Partners were at the museum for the event, hosted by The Coalition for a Resilient and Inclusive Waterfront.
Senior Advisor with the CRIW, Ian Karby, said it was one of the most welcoming and eventful summers he’s ever seen in Boston.
“We know we showed up for when we had our neighbors here visiting. The Scots were visiting, we had people from all over that were visiting and it was so fun,” Karby said.
“We wanted to embrace that, and say, ‘Where do we go with this, how do we keep this going?’”
Making the waterfront more accessible and inclusive to communities was a big focus at the Summit. President and CEO of Boston Harbor Now, Kathy Abbott, said climate resilience was a big focus as well.
“We’re expecting 40 inches of sea level rise by 2070, that’s a lot of water. A 6th of our city is built on fill, which means water that used to be either water or wetlands, so it’s prone to flooding,” said Abbott. “We think it’s an incredible opportunity to reinvent our waterfront.”
President and CEO of the Children’s Museum, Melissa Higgins, said as one of the buildings residing along the waterfront, it’s important to be involved in these types of discussions.
“It is our job to make sure that the kids in our city and beyond are really understanding what’s happening,” Higgins said.
WBZ NewsRadio’s Kyle Bray (@KyleBrayWBZ) reports.