Sundays on the Boulevard

City opens section of Baxter Boulevard for fun recreational activities

What:  Starting this Sunday, Portland Recreation invites the public to come out and enjoy the closed section of Baxter Boulevard from Vannah Street to Cheverus High School. People can bike, roller blade, skateboard, unicycle, stroll, skip, walk on the road while Baxter Boulevard is closed for the summer for stormwater infrastructure construction. Portland Recreation will host three Sundays in June and offer fun family activities such as hula hooping, rope jumping, chalk art and more. The activities will be located along the section of the boulevard in front of Cheverus High School.

Sundays On the Boulevard is supported by the Recreation & Facilities Management Department, Public Services, Portland Trails, Healthy Portland, the Bicycle Coalition of Maine and the Back Cove Neighborhood Association.

This section of Baxter Boulevard has been closed to allow for construction of the North Storage Conduits, which involves the installation of underground concrete box conduits able to store up to two million gallons of combined sewage and stormwater that can be sent to the East End Wastewater Treatment Facility instead of being discharged untreated into Back Cove. The boulevard is scheduled to reopen later this summer.

When:             Sundays June 2, 9, and 16
                        11:00 AM to 2:00 PM
            Where:            Baxter Boulevard, Portland