Seaport Square (Formerly McCourt Seaport Parcels)

I think it does. All neighborhoods must have boundaries, otherwise they wouldn't be neighborhoods. Some boundaries are more fuzzy than others, but the Fort Point neighborhood is actually pretty rigid - both in its look/feel and its municipality-designated boundary. Fort Point development will always look different from Seaport development as long as the landmark district guidelines are in place and enforced.

Hmmm...South Boston is a neighborhood with boundaries, yes. The areas and places within South Boston, no.

And even the city disregards its own boundary lines. On St. Patrick's Parade day bars close early in South Boston. But not all of South Boston. The dividing line is Congress Street. So Lucky's is forced to close for the day before Drink, which is permitted to open that day, unlocks its doors. (These bars are across the street from each other for those who don't know.)

Keeping the focus on Fort Point, if a distinction must be drawn one could argue that the church/office building and Yotel parcels are actually in Fort Point, not in the Seaport. Each parcel is currently a parking lot for a Fort Point building and are both separated by fence from and depressed several feet below the grade of Seaport Boulevard. One of the main access points to both parcels will be Farnsworth Street via Congress Street in Fort Point. If they aren't in Fort Point, they are straddling the boundary line.

I can only conclude Fort Point is not a neighborhood so much as an area comprised more or less within the Seaport.
 
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::Gasp::

They're in the process of putting in benches and trees along Seaport Blvd (complete with cobblestones).

This was part of the Seaport Square proposal, I believe (privately funded).

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Love to a shot from that viewpoint for 5-8 years ago though. Perspective.

Seamus, I've got some shots of the whole of today's Seaport / Innovation District from a few elevated points across the channel -- some from quite a few years ago [circa when Commonwealth Pier was to become BOSCOM]-- problem -- the shots were taken with my film Pentax and exit only as 35-mm slides in trays
 
Construction fencing going up around parcels H (Chapel) and J (Yotel) today
Has the previous chapel been demolished yet? (when the old chapel was "not there" I could never tell if I'd again forgotten where it was or it was actually gone ;-) )
 
Has the previous chapel been demolished yet? (when the old chapel was "not there" I could never tell if I'd again forgotten where it was or it was actually gone ;-) )

It's still there. I believe that it won't be torn down until the new chapel is ready for occupancy.
 
This revised treatment of Seaport Hill or whatever the heck it is supposed to be called (the formerly- square 'courtyard' thing with the proposed bridge to summer st.) actually makes sense too, for the first time....

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