Jackson Road Gateway

Roadway, Sidewalk, Walkway & Park Entrance / (Fort) Devens, MA

The Jackson Road Gateway project exemplifies a creative and inventive design approach to an environmentally sensitive landscape. As a gateway to the emerging Devens community, Waterfield Design Group developed a placebased identity by incorporating the area’s natural features and highlighting historic elements of the past US Military base. With a simple and cost-effective design approach, walkway materials, landscape signage, native plantings, and elegant landscape structures of natural stone and wood are used in concert to create an image that will help guide the development of the new Devens.

Waterfield Design provided landscape architecture design for this 4,250 foot long stretch of four (4) lane divided roadway that serves as the access road and gateway to the Town of Devens and the former US military base.

The Waterfield Design Group was contracted for design services after MassDevelopment rejected a previous design due to budget constraints and landscape impact concerns. WDG addressed these issues effectively and completed the design in coordination with Parsons Brinkerhoff