
Boston Media Is Missing the Big Story When Covering Megaprojects
The real and much more important story right now? Why it is so hard to build in Boston, and who is to blame for so little progress on the city’s biggest proposed developments.
The real and much more important story right now? Why it is so hard to build in Boston, and who is to blame for so little progress on the city’s biggest proposed developments.
Developer Related Beal’s proposed 1.1 million-square-foot development overlooking Fort Point Channel could be one of the first properties protected under a city plan to flood-proof waterfront properties.
But will they use a Mach 3? A Venus? Or a Fusion ProShield?
Procter & Gamble is looking to shake up its real estate footprint in Massachusetts including its 34-acre Gillette World Shaving Headquarters campus in South Boston, which has been increasingly surrounded by booming development activity in the past decade.
Related Beal has acquired 6.5 acres of the Gillette campus in South Boston, in the second development site megadeal in a week for the Fort Point neighborhood.
A Palm Beach-based investment firm has bought 5 Channel Center St., a 52,000-square-foot building near Gillette’s Boston factory.
A Boston developer has reportedly agreed to buy 6.5 acres of surface parking along Boston’s Fort Point Channel, one of the last large development sites in the west side of the Seaport District.
A prime undeveloped parcel next to the future General Electric headquarters is on the market as Gillette tests the value of its sprawling South Boston campus.