Raymond Park Renovations

The City of Cambridge would like to invite you to submit a bid for Raymond Park Renovations . Bids are to be submitted through the Procurement Portal at https://procurement.opengov.com/portal/cambridgema , no later than 2:00 pm on Thursday, July 31, 2025 .

Nature and scope of work: The City seeks a full range of construction services to renovate the approximately 2.8-acre public park in the Neighborhood Nine neighborhood of Cambridge. Raymond Park is located at 112 Raymond between Walden Street, Raymond Street, and Upland Road, and directly abuts private residences on one side. The park is a neighborhood park that supports both active and passive recreation, a playground, a community garden, and shared off-leash dog activity each morning.

Raymond Park has been a neighborhood park and playground since the early 1920’s. Prior to the establishment of the park, documents suggest that the land may have been used as a clay pit. Since the park’s original dedication, it has included a playground and ball field, ice skating in the 1930’s, established a community garden in the 1980’s, and a memorial garden at the corner of Upland and Raymond in the late 1990’s. The last significant renovation was in 1993.

The landscape architectural design includes the renovation of the existing playground, sports field, terraced seating, new multi-sport hard court, trees, plantings, seating, walkways, lighting, and minor improvements at the community garden.

The scope of work includes demolition, grading, new subsurface utilities, drainage, irrigation, lighting, fencing, salvaging and reusing the exiting stone wall, new paving surfaces including asphalt, concrete, playground safety surfacing, playground equipment installation including an embankment slide, plant and tree installation, signage and furniture installation. Of the greatest importance is the protection of existing trees and existing community garden plots to remain in place.

The successful bidder should expect the schedule include the coordination of work and installation of a public art piece that fulfills the City’s Percent for Art Ordinance. Additionally, the City is interested in exploring options for the construction schedule and site management that would allow access to the community garden during the growing season, as well as identifying other opportunities to keep parts of the park open for neighborhood use while work is taking place in other areas.