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Or take JC Canistraro's 157k square foot blank warehouse that is dedicated to HVAC and fire protection fabrication and employs....100 (?!!?) people who were moved from Wilmington and Watertown. Another non marine related use that could just as easily be located anywhere. It's simply an...

This entire discussion is belied by the fact that much of the development that has occurred in the industrial park isn't dedicated to the fishing industry (or Industry) at all. Look at Innovation Square...it is a massive new LAB complex. There's Au Bon Pain's corporate headquarters, a giant...

The point was made above that Boston was the largest fishing port in the Northeast. It is not. My point is that the vacant wasteland that is the marine industrial park has not been instrumental to the preservation of Boston's fleet and the size of that fleet is not as large as the previous post...

The Port of New Bedford has been the nation’s number one most valuable fishing port since 2001.

New Bedford has a much larger fleet than Boston and it's not close. I advocate for mixed use and housing because Boston's downtown is woefully small. It needs more life and it need (MUCH) more housing. Housing affordability is a far more critical issue than the location of light industrial space.

Oh I 100% agree that the transportation issue would have to be addressed before any mixed use development were considered in that area. That said, at least that might provide an impetus to create a transportation solution for the ENTIRE seaport which is already choking on traffic. You could...

Just look at the aerial view on google maps and you can see what is operating in the marine industrial park...then drive the streets. There is precious little business activity and a bunch of dilapidated old buildings and trash strewn parking lots. It makes people feel good to say that we are...

I'd take a condo building with ground floor street life that adds to the city's desperately inadequate housing stock over a windowless fish processing warehouse every day of the week. We need housing (no matter the type) far more than we need cheap industrial space.

If it's so "necessary" why has the vast majority of that land lay fallow for the past fifty years? They were so desperate to find somebody ANYBODY to rent space they struck a deal with a salt pile operator.

Well, you never know what may change in twenty years...IMHO the use of this land for industrial development is a very poor allocation of resources. The land could generate hundreds of millions of dollars in annual property taxes if it became an extension of the seaport while providing a new...

I doubt the BPDA would have intentionally approved brick of the quality shown in those photos. Design review has leverage.

Let's complain to the BPDA...maybe they will treat it like the commonwealth hotel and demand better quality. Aisling Kerr is the project manager: email her and demand the BPDA adhere to the quality agreed upon. This is value engineering. aisling.kerr@boston.gov

I see what you're doing here but it is not really analogous. While you are correct, that the naming of these places did not have any pertinence to Boston itself when they were named (nor does the name Boston for that matter) the names then given have obviously become important to the city and...

When the Edison plant and this are built it would make sense to build a launch for high speed ferry service if that's not already in the works. If traffic returns to anything like what it was prior to the pandemic...and presumably it will be modestly better but nothing like it was in say 2005...

Is any responsible person at the BPDA or in City Hall going to stand up and say "how are people going to get here?" It's beyond irresponsible to continue to approve these projects without an equal amount of attention to a holistic transportation plan. It's like sending out 400 invitations for a...

There's not one truly attractive building in that whole dog's breakfast of a project. What a missed opportunity.

Seriously...it's an embarassment...none of this exists in Europe

Oh we SHOULD...when I bought in Kendall a decade ago one could drive down memorial drive from mass ave fairly unimpeded until one hit Binney...by pre pandemic it was backed up halfway to mass ave and the problems were getting worse. More redline cars was 100% necessary. Who knows, we may get...

So many of the responses to my comment seem to intentionally miss the point...the entire seaport has a major transportation/accessibility problem. It will continue to grow worse with time as these parcels are developed. It is the job and responsibility of the BPDA and the mayor to ensure that...

Have you guys not spent time in the Seaport prior to the pandemic? Especially at rush hour it was gridlock everywhere. The area is only maybe 30% built out and plans continue for much much more development. It is absolutely imperative that transportation be fully considered at the heart of this...