PAYETTE was well represented at the 33rd J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge as nine PAYETTE runners competed in the annual event. Our 2016 team ran the 3.5 mile course in a sold-out crowd of 9,475 runners and walkers from 324 companies in Boston. The Boston course starts and finishes in the Commons, winding through Kenmore Square and Back-Bay. Our runners enjoyed the scenery, enthusiastic atmosphere and the refreshing mid-60 degree evening weather. This year J.P. Morgan will make a donation on behalf of all participants to City Year, which unites young leaders to serve as tutors, mentors and role models to students in the Boston area.
Keeping with tradition, PAYETTE’s Young Designers Core held an internal pancake and waffle breakfast fundraiser prior to the race with proceeds helping to offset entry fee costs for the PAYETTE Corporate Challenge Team. The PAYETTE runners prepared and cooked the breakfast; flipping stacks of flap-jacks and topping plenty of Belgium waffles for everyone to enjoy. The firm’s healthy appetite for pancakes and waffles raised enough money to reimburse our runners for half of this year’s entry fee.
2016 PAYETTE Corporate Challenge Runners:
Andrea Love
Lynn Petermann
Amanda Tripodi
Susan Blomquist
Casey Mahoney
Adam Wagner
Timothy Cooke
Mark Oldham
Mike Quinn
The 2025 OpenLAB Boston studio work will be exhibited at Virginia Tech Monday, March 2nd through Wednesday, March 4th.
Please join us for the following events on Monday, March 2nd:
11:00am - Lecture with Parke MacDowell
1:00pm Lobby talk with Kevin Sullivan
This year’s studio identifies seven sites along the frayed edges of Boston’s Greenway. The Greenway is a one-mile-long linear park running through the heart of the city, reconnecting downtown Boston with its waterfront. Many of the parcels along its edges remain undeveloped and present mute, blank facades to the public realm. Addressing and repairing these edges through acts of infilling, layering, grafting, framing, and placemaking is the core focus of the studio—SUTURE.