Recent content by Merrimac

I haven't had a chance to look through all that document, but what I've seen so far is very disappointing.

There are hundreds of trucks a day as BeeLine says. Also Redgate keeps dangling the idea of a water taxi serving the development. I doubt very much the Coast Guard will approve commercial boat traffic under the Butler truck corridor bridge. The housing restriction wasn't mentioned before...

Here are some shots of the pieces of the station I think should be saved: The west wall of the No. 2 & No. 3 Boiler Rooms: Edison-BoilerRm3-01-dig by JFB119, on Flickr"]Edison-BoilerRm3-01-dig by JFB119, on Flickr[/URL] The cornice could be restored with precast stone. The partial north wall of...

Re: Innovation Dist. / South Boston Seaport It's downright depressing!

Thanks, I suspected that.. ;)

I found this on Flickr: [/url]Image from page 955 of "Electrical world" (1883) by Internet Archive Book Images, on Flickr[/IMG] This view is from the north shortly after the first section of Station No. 4was completed. One the left is the Boston Electric Light Co. plant of 1897. On the right...

My photo editing software has expired so right now all I have are large raw images. I'll see if I can get a friend to reduce their size tonight or tomorrow. The interior images that the BPDA and Redgate have posted are only of the 1903 turbine room No. 1. I don't think there are any images...

CiroflexSummerSt by JFB119, on Flickr

The turbine rooms they plan on saving have only north and south walls with any architectural features as the long sides were butted up against other structures. What I am interested in saving are two partial walls of the boiler rooms and the original Boston Electric Light Plant. The Boston...

atlantaden, not counting the newest condo construction, the neighborhood is mostly wood frame triple-deckers with some brick and concrete warehouse adjacent. They showed the neighborhood lots of images of rehabbed 19th century mills and factories as an idea of what they would put in there. The...

NikonFM2_SBWaterfront_07_2014 by JFB119, on Flickr

Utterly insipid. Must we build the same building over and over again? Redgate sold themselves to the neighborhood as a group with a history of successfully rehabbing and re-purposing industrial structures, but here they plan to demolish nearly all the structures that made up the three plants on...

[/url]NikonFM2_35-105_AmesBldg_2014 by JFB119, on Flickr[/IMG]

East side of Bromfield St. between Washington and Province Sts.

Re: Old Boston Edison plant on Summer St At the moment Redgate is planning on razing everything but the the turbine rooms in the middle of the complex. The original Boston Electric Light Plant, the boiler rooms, along Summer St. with their unique segmental arch windows capped with lunets & the...