Former Boston Mayor Marty Walsh’s legacy of largely apolitical planning appears to be well and truly dead. Mayor Kim Janey’s withdrawal of the Downtown Municipal Harbor Plan raises potent questions about the future of other supposedly-settled city plans.
Seven environmental protection groups are calling on Boston Mayor Kim Janey to withdraw the city’s downtown waterfront harbor plan key to future development in the area.
The Superior Court decision on the Downtown Municipal Harbor Plan, or MHP is a victory for protecting open access to Boston’s beautiful waterfront. It’s also an opportunity to reimagine what waterfront development should look like. What it is not is a decision about any one individual project.
An attorney for Boston’s Battery Wharf Hotel condo owners acknowledges some inadvertent violations of public access and programming and said the property “has been and continues to be welcoming of the public.”
Four people sustained injuries Friday morning when an MBTA ferry ran aground near Long Island in thick fog after being “cut off” by a private boat, a T spokesman said.
With the highways and public transit options around Boston perpetually congested, a new study funded in part by the state details potential new ferry routes to connect downtown Boston with East Boston and the Seaport, Columbia Point and Squantum Point in Quincy.
In the future, the fastest way to get to one of Boston’s “next Kendall Squares” could be a ferry.
For sale: Bright red, six-bedroom single-family home with waterfront views and a 2,000-square-foot deck. Price: $5.2 million, and maybe the occasional bout of seasickness.
The Boston offices of tenant representation brokerage Cresa have relocated to Atlantic Wharf on the downtown waterfront.
The barrier proposed for Boston Harbor will need a catchy name.
Local officials recently kicked off the Boston Harbor Dredging Project, a $350 million state- and federally funded multiphase project designed to support continued growth at Conley Container Terminal.
Developer Related Beal has begun accepting applications for 239 workforce and affordable apartments in The Beverly, its new development in Boston’s Bulfinch Triangle.
A 22-story condominium tower on Boston Harbor would provide “extraordinary private benefits” to a developer while violating state laws protecting public access to the waterfront, the Conservation Law Foundation argues in a lawsuit challenging the 150 Seaport project by Boston-based developer Cronin Group.
Turns out building a 277-room hotel on pilings over Boston Harbor isn’t that simple.
Developer Donald Chiofaro could be required to pay $18.55 million for upgrades to the Boston central waterfront as part of approvals for a $1-billion skyscraper project at the Harbor Garage site on East India Row.
The federal government announced $42 million in funding Wednesday for the Port of Boston’s shipping container terminal.
Wynn Resorts is starting construction on its $2 billion Boston-area casino after years of legal fights.
