Citing an urgent threat of climate change to Boston’s waterfront, Acting Mayor Kim Janey said she is jettisoning the city’s rezoning of 42 acres that would allow development of a pair of new towers at the edge of Boston Harbor.
The Suffolk Superior Court dealt a major setback in April to The Chiofaro Co,’s proposed 600-foot mixed-use tower at the Harbor Garage site near the New England Aquarium in Boston. But the plaintiffs’ victory may only be temporary.
As it prepares to break ground on the first building of the Suffolk Downs redevelopment in late summer, Boston-based HYM Investment Group is taking a bigger-picture look at how future flooding and storm surges will affect its 161-acre site and surrounding vulnerable neighborhoods.
A Suffolk Superior Court justice struck down the city of Boston’s new waterfront zoning that would have cleared the way for The Chiofaro Co.’s 600-foot-tall, 865,000-square-foot Pinnacle skyscraper at Central Wharf.
As it studies future options for its 34-acre World Shaving Headquarters property in South Boston, Gillette Co. is seeking to remove some state oversight over what could be built next on portions of the prime waterfront real estate.
A proposed massive overhaul of the federal government’s disaster aid system to correct mapping mistakes and other errors would lift the prohibition on aid for more than 900 other structures along the East Coast from New Hampshire to Virginia.
When it comes to the latest politically charged battle over development on Boston’s waterfront, as the immortal Yogi Berra once said, “it’s déjà vu all over again.”
