The state paid $1.3 million for 4.2 acres that will complete the 1.7-mile Watertown-Cambridge Greenway.
Located between Grove Street in Watertown and Huron Avenue in Cambridge, the purchase connects the Charles River corridor, Fresh Pond Reservation, Fresh Pond Shopping Center, Alewife Greenway and T station, the Minuteman Bike Path and the Mystic River Reservation, the state said.
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