Climate Concerns Central to Piers’ Future

Once mainstays of the city’s economy, harborside piers now figure prominently in Boston’s attempts to protect against sea level rise. But engineering and financial challenges pose the kinds of barriers that won’t keep the water out.

Designers Seek Defenses for Extreme Heat and Flooding

The summer of 2021’s record-breaking heat and precipitation in Greater Boston is adding urgency to additional requirements for commercial buildings and development sites and designs that can withstand expected extreme weather in coming years.

DRI Strategy Could Defend Boston Waterfront

Protecting Boston’s vulnerable real estate from flood damage in coming decades could require creation of new districts to collect payments from property owners, and a new cabinet-level resiliency czar and department at city hall to oversee the defense strategy.

Who Pays to Bail Out Boston?

With potential for massive property damage in Boston neighborhoods in the path of rising seas, the city is studying funding mechanisms to pick up the multi-billion-dollar tab in coming decades.

Boston Needs Ways to Live with Heat

Climate Ready Boston projects that by the year 2070 the temperature may reach 90 degrees Fahrenheit almost every day of the summer in eastern Massachusetts. The buildings and systems that we have created over the past 100 years were not designed to deal with such conditions.

Waterfront Development in the Age of Rising Seas

Boston’s Seaport is a thriving, robust neighborhood about to deliver more than 30 million square feet of premier office, residential and retail spaces across hundreds of acres of open space, waterfront views and cultural institutions. While commanding some of the highest rents and sales prices in the city, there is an underlying concern related to climate change, resiliency and sustainability.

Generational Change at The Fallon Co.

Michael Fallon was appointed president of The Fallon Co., just last month, but the 30-year-old real estate executive is already thinking about the long-term legacy of the Boston-based development company founded by his father Joseph in 1993.

A New Cost for Climate Change

Too often when developers fail to prepare for climate change, taxpayers are called upon to bail them out when the inevitable damage happens. But now it seems that cities across Massachusetts and even the state could increasingly be on the hook financially if they don’t take substantive steps to plan for these changes.