Everett Docklands Innovation District | 52 Beacham Street | Everett

Are there parcels on the water that are yet to be sold, or ones that belong to Encore? It would make the most sense if there was a waterfront ongoing development. If so, could anyone please kindly point towards Everett's waterfront plans?
 
AndrewOnTheMBTA said:
Are there parcels on the water that are yet to be sold, or ones that belong to Encore? It would make the most sense if there was a waterfront ongoing development. If so, could anyone please kindly point towards Everett's waterfront plans?
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Err, which piece of waterfront, Malden or Mystic Rivers? The Malden Riverfront has a plan, but if you're talking about extending from this site south to the Mystic? South of Beacham is all DPA (Designated Port Area) - nothing that isnt a port/maritime use can really be built there without first removing the DPA tag. Its why removing the Rev Stadium portion of the Mystic Generating Station site from the DPA by way of legislation is a prerequisite.

(Units 8&9 were recently bought by eversource, so while they'll likely never operate again that site is likely to remain energy infrastructure.)
 
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Stlin said:
Err, which piece of waterfront, Malden or Mystic Rivers? The Malden Riverfront has a plan, but if you're talking about extending from this site south to the Mystic? South of Beacham is all DPA (Designated Port Area) - nothing that isnt a port/maritime use can really be built there without first removing the DPA tag. Its why removing the Rev Stadium portion of the Mystic Generating Station site from the DPA by way of legislation is a prerequisite.

(Units 8&9 were recently bought by eversource, so while they'll likely never operate again that site is likely to remain energy infrastructure.)
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All of the waterfront space along just the Mystic. I checked and supposed confirmed, Mystic Generating was bought by Wynn, correct? However, that has been on hold for over a year now. So then, aside from Mystic Generating, am I missing anymore waterfront parcels? Some of the plans for Everett Docklands appear to abut the Mystic River. All that said, if the only waterfront areas remaining are Mystic Generating and other DPA, then it'd seem the Docklands are all there is to watch near there for now.
 
AndrewOnTheMBTA said:
All of the waterfront space along just the Mystic. I checked and supposed confirmed, Mystic Generating was bought by Wynn, correct? However, that has been on hold for over a year now. So then, aside from Mystic Generating, am I missing anymore waterfront parcels? Some of the plans for Everett Docklands appear to abut the Mystic River. All that said, if the only waterfront areas remaining are Mystic Generating and other DPA, then it'd seem the Docklands are all there is to watch near there for now.
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My understanding is that Wynn purchased the original Mystic Station, units 1-7, which is the proposed stadium site. Eversource bought units 8&9 in 2024. What you probably want then is the Everett Industrial District Study, but even then thats focused on what can be done outside of the DPA and therefore utterly avoids the waterfront.
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Also, while the docklands parcels technically straddle the line of the DPA, I believe only the portion outside of it is currently proposed for redevelopment, and the DPA parcels will remain industrial uses. Concept images show it stood way back from the Mystic, concentrated on the former tank farm.
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Stlin said:
My understanding is that Wynn purchased the original Mystic Station, units 1-7, which is the proposed stadium site. Eversource bought units 8&9 in 2024. What you probably want then is the Everett Industrial District Study, but even then thats focused on what can be done outside of the DPA and therefore utterly avoids the waterfront.
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Also, while the docklands parcels technically straddle the line of the DPA, I believe only the portion outside of it is currently proposed for redevelopment, and the DPA parcels will remain industrial uses. Concept images show it stood way back from the Mystic, concentrated on the former tank farm.
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Yes, this fills in the missing info gaps I was curious about! This pieces everything together well, with a nice visual too. I appreciate this a lot - great perspective of the entire area to come!
 
Equilibria said:
Transportation presentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/111JB_t_VJznPugRnjmeTeyXN1Y7XlY49/view?usp=drive_link
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Sorry to go off on a tangent here, but this struck me as crazy:

Silver Line Extension
Cost: $100M (including $28M for Lower
Broadway Improvements).
Funding: Partially identified.
Timeline: No service date identified in writing,
but MBTA planners estimate start of service in
2036.

Key public players: City of Everett, MassDOT,
MBTA, City of Chelsea, City of Boston
Note: This project is projected to increase
daily ridership on the SL3 by over 15,000 riders,
with a full daily ridership of over 27,800 riders.

ELEVEN YEARS TO PLAN AND BUILD A SMALL EXTENSION OF A BRT LINE? That's mad.
 
MrDee12345 said:
Sorry to go off on a tangent here, but this struck me as crazy:

Silver Line Extension
Cost: $100M (including $28M for Lower
Broadway Improvements).
Funding: Partially identified.
Timeline: No service date identified in writing,
but MBTA planners estimate start of service in
2036.

Key public players: City of Everett, MassDOT,
MBTA, City of Chelsea, City of Boston
Note: This project is projected to increase
daily ridership on the SL3 by over 15,000 riders,
with a full daily ridership of over 27,800 riders.

ELEVEN YEARS TO PLAN AND BUILD A SMALL EXTENSION OF A BRT LINE? That's mad.
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You missed one key aspect of this, FUND, PLAN and BUILD.

Sad part about reading the document is how many of the projects have no funding at all identified.
 
I'm a bit concerned about the plan for lower Broadway. Right now, there are bike lanes, but this render clearly shows a no bike lane concept.

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The Beecham Street render has a cycle track between the bus lanes and the sidewalk. Seems like they could have done the same for Broadway.
 
HenryAlan said:
'm a bit concerned about the plan for lower Broadway.
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I believe that image is taken from the mbta bus priority toolkit to show the different street treatments. So not a 1 to1 but more a general example. I think the streetmix example showing bike lanes is a positive sign.

https://issuu.com/nelsonnygaard/docs/2023-10-24-bus-priority-toolkit-mbta?fr=xKAE9_zU1NQ

MrDee12345 said:
ELEVEN YEARS TO PLAN AND BUILD A SMALL EXTENSION OF A BRT LINE? That's mad.
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Completely agree, I had to do a double-take for 2036. SL3 to Chelsea took 5 years from selecting the alternative to being in service (2013-2018). That included redoing bridges, the multi-use path, and a whole new commuter rail station. SLX is predicted to more than double ridership SL3 through a dense, underserved, EJ neighborhood in the city; surely, that would be one of the largest funding priorities for the state, even through a presidency that is incredible hostile to public transportation.
I just hope 2036 is their safe deadline and not their optimistic one. If it's going to realistically take closer to 15-20 years, we should be thinking bigger, like LRT conversion.

A few other things that struck me

1. They have very intensely scaled down the height of development on their drawings (incredibly dissapointing), while including in the soccer stadium (nice to see) and larger buildings for encore expansion. It seemed like there was too much Lab space in the previous iteration, but why not make it tall housing instead?
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2. How is it $15-$30 million to create a pre-planned headhouse at an existing station, but it is only $30+ for a brand new permanent commuter rail station?
3. They are using the old render of the thinner pedestrian bridge rather than the newly unveiled one with supports on both sides
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4. It's really nice to see they are considering Sweetser circle as the commuter rail location, it's further from Encore and Stadium but I think will be a lot better for bus connections and SLX when it is finished in 50 years.
 
samsongam said:
1. They have very intensely scaled down the height of development on their drawings (incredibly dissapointing), while including in the soccer stadium (nice to see) and larger buildings for encore expansion. It seemed like there was too much Lab space in the previous iteration, but why not make it tall housing instead?
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Wow, that's an extremely disappointing change.
 
I wouldn’t read too much into these funding time horizons for projects specifically in this part of Everett - given the scale and intensity of development, I’m sure the delivery timelines could (and would) move up as a part of the transportation mitigation negotiations with local and state leaders progress. State might not have funding ID’ed for SLX but if Davis chips in some and then local and state sources contribute some, things can happen sooner than expected. Everett has already changed a lot in the last ten years. If the development continues, anything is possible.
 
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JeffDowntown said:
You missed one key aspect of this, FUND, PLAN and BUILD.

Sad part about reading the document is how many of the projects have no funding at all identified.
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I read stuff like this and I'm becoming a conspiracy theorist. If we can't fund and build a couple-mile-long extension to a BRT line, there's no way we made it to the moon in '69 ;)
 
I know youre being sarcastic, but all of this slow walking and tying everything up in court was a direct response to the policies of the 60’s where they went too fast and bulldozed entire neighborhoods. So we went too far one direction and now were too far in the other direction. Hopefully it now starts to swing back in the other direction, but with the wisdom we learned from doing it the wrong way in the past. Well see…

Anyways as far as this project the one thing Id really like to see is them break up the city blocks into smaller parcels. The street wall will be much better with multiple buildings per block compared to one huge 5 over 1 per block imo.
 
MrDee12345 said:
I read stuff like this and I'm becoming a conspiracy theorist. If we can't fund and build a couple-mile-long extension to a BRT line, there's no way we made it to the moon in '69 ;)
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Cannot fund transit; must feed the oligarchs more billions. Nothing conspiratorial about it -- it is out in the daylight. (And that wasn't the priority back in the '60s)
 
MrDee12345 said:
I read stuff like this and I'm becoming a conspiracy theorist. If we can't fund and build a couple-mile-long extension to a BRT line, there's no way we made it to the moon in '69 ;)
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I know this was said tongue-in-cheek, but we made it to the Moon because we wanted to do it. If we had a consensus for a transit line in Everett, we would do it. The fact that we can't find consensus on these projects is truly disappointing.
 
themissinglink said:
Wow, that's an extremely disappointing change.
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I am disappointed too. I have a feeling in this case its more an economics thing than a local politics thing. I think the leap between 5 overs 1's and concrete high rises is a pretty large one in per unit costs. And interior Everett, not near any (good) public transit or water feature or existing cool urban square, or highway, is just not that desirable a location. I do think that's one thing they messed up is they could have put more effort into retail in the five over one's they already built, just to create a sense of place. I walked through the area recently and only saw one business, a smoothie place. I get maybe the developers would lose money short term but it would pay off in making the area more desirable.
 
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