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Not sure where to put this, but floating wetland habitats are being installed in Fort Point Channel. Image courtesy of the Globe. [https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/07/metro/wetlands-boston-harbor-ecology/?s_campaign=breakingnews:newsletter[/URL] ]

Sybil has nothing to do with any Revolutionary War events in Massachusetts. Extensive article in Wiki questions whether any such ride occurred; she was denied a pension because she could offer no proof that she was ever married to her 'husband', a veteran of the Revolutionary War. Pretty...

The architect for the new high school is Perkins & Will. Voluminous documents can be found here, https://sites.google.com/salemk12.org/shs-building-committee/documents-information?authuser=0 At least one document, the Preliminary Design program, was too large to view on-line, and required...

May I suggest that complaints be addressed to this gentleman: https://www.tishmanspeyer.com/people/bruce-e-phillips

The Commonwealth selected the development team, as this is state-owned land which will be sold on project completion to the two developers. Avalon gets to do all new construction. Winn will do adaptive re-use of existing buildings, and presumably receive historic preservation tax credits...

Two large apartment projects are slated for Salem State University's South Campus. The university will consolidate its programs and activities into the North Campus. The South Campus location was originally a Catholic girls boarding school, Ste. Chretienne Academy. The school closed in 1971...

https://www.nbcboston.com/boston-business-journal/amazon-moves-forward-with-delayed-second-seaport-office/3940427/?noamp=mobile Original source is BBJ.

Gillette going back to Southie for its HQ building. Buying back a parcel it sold a few years ago. Cost about $1 billion. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/10/business/gillette-headquarters-proctor-gamble-south-boston/?s_campaign=breakingnews:newsletter

United is leasing Airbus 321neos to replace the 757s. These are being called 'coastliners', for transcontinental service. See: ,https://simpleflying.com/united-airlines-upscale-transcon-flights-premium-coastliner-airbus-a321neos/ The 100 787s are primarily, if not exclusively for...

Globe reporting this afternoon that the Dugout, at 722 Comm Ave. has permanently closed. Liquor license just sold to a restaurant in the Seaport. Dugout opened in 1934. Prohibition ended December, 1933. I doubt there are any aB members who remember either.

Article in Financial Times today. At 35 megawatts, this heat pump will be the world's largest (according to FT.) A blurb from Vicinity, the Kendall station operator FT article stated that the heat pump will provide 50 metric tons of steam an hour and serve more than 70 million square feet of...

In the aerial rendering upthread, Derby Wharf is shown full length. The National Park service measures the Wharf's length as 2,045 feet. The end of the Wharf, at the small lighthouse, is about midpoint to the proposed residential buildings complex. Without being too picky, when one factors in...

The re-development site is about a half-mile, catty-corner walk from the existing commuter rail station. The infill stop that is being discussed would be located in Salem's Castle Hill neighborhood, and would be about a one-mile walk from the Shetland Park re-development. The closest mass...

The councilwoman's ward includes Shetland Park, which, in the 19th Century, was supposedly the largest cotton mill in the world. Presently, the former buildings are home to sundry, commercial R&D, civic, and storage spaces totaling about 1.5 million GSF. This 30 acre site is being...

This development is Tishman Speyer's, not Harvard's. Harvard sold Tishman Speyer a ground lease; Having purchased the ground lease, Tishman Speyer proceeded to design and construct buildings on the leased land. Tishman Speyer will own the buildings for up to 95 years. After that, the...