L Street Station Redevelopment (née Old Edison Plant)| 776 Summer Street | South Boston

Super happy the restriction is gone. Just a little mind blown/frustrated it was a $12 million price tag to make it go away.
 
I sort of get it though. Conley relies pretty much exclusively on the Butler Freight corridor bridge that runs on the waterfront side of the site. If I were Massport, I'd also not want to have to field resident complaints about rumbling clangy container trucks under windows and balconies. There's a reason Butler is carefully avoided in almost every render I've ever seen of this, but that "waterfront promenade" is still going to be looking at it and the thousands of trucks that use it. Plus, the other side immediately overlooks the container port. Those are loud, industrial uses - I don't blame Massport for wanting to prevent the possibility of complaints.

Here, it gave Massport leverage to push the residential away from the waterfront which isn't what you would normally want. Look at airports, race tracks, and other loud uses. "It was here first" doesn't stop people buying homes near some loud preexisting facility then campaigning to get it shut down.
 
As of 9/8. Busy site with demo of foundations on the south end of the site and filling in of holes on the north end of the site.
Also new fencing going up along 1st.
 

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Some interesting tidbits in this deck from November: BPDA Presentation, including some nice pictures of inside the turbine halls. Seems like some switcheroo business on residential vs. office building heights/setbacks etc. Comment period for Phase 2 closes January 15.

No mention of construction start on Phase 1 though, any ideas on when that might be?
 
This project was designed to have far more residential. The "local community" opposed it on traffic concerns, bizarrely favoring office, despite local residential being far less likely to induce traffic and car commutes...
 
Very solid density and semi-interesting looking structures. However, the proportions certainly could have been a lot better. I'm intentionally posting the wider sides but all of them present as brutally fat from half their angles.

84' + mech

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115' + mech

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160' + mech (so maybe about 190' on this one)

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194' + mech (ie the only building that will break 200', barely)

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In a perfect world, the Silver Line 2 would be re-incarnated as light rail and extended along the Summer Street bridge/causeway to serve this area of South Boston. It's a pretty dense redevelopment for an area that is underserved by rapid transit.
 
Smuttynose said:
In a perfect world, the Silver Line 2 would be re-incarnated as light rail and extended along the Summer Street bridge/causeway to serve this area of South Boston. It's a pretty dense redevelopment for an area that is underserved by rapid transit.
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Sure, but it does at least have the bus depot, so not really a transit desert.
 
If I'm reading similar news from B&T, they're looking to do get approved for offsite affordable housing in order to move forward soon with the 600+ unit apartment buildings (instead of the previous 100 onsite affordable).
 
HenryAlan said:
Sure, but it does at least have the bus depot, so not really a transit desert.
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The Southie busses are some of the most frequent in the City and have very short rides places you want to go.
 
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