When Luis Perez Demorizi reports to his new job on Sept. 15, he’ll walk into his 527-acre office as Franklin Park’s first executive director.
Mayor Wu and an advisory team that included the members of the Franklin Park Coalition chose the 41-year-old Demorizi after a search that took about a year-and-a-half. He will serve under the commissioner of the Boston Parks and Recreation Department as the first overseer of a single park in Boston – though such arrangements are common elsewhere.
“I’m super excited for the role because Franklin Park and the Boston park system really started landscape architecture,” Demorizi told The Reporter on Monday in noting that it’s an important part of both his education and the landscape architectural profession that he said started with Frederick Law Olmsted. Franklin Park is a major legacy of Olmsted, he added, and “as a landscape architect, he’s someone we all aim to emulate in some way…