I live here and to the 500 residents on this side of Summer Street we're dying for park space. The park on the corner of Binford is nicely landscaped for sitting and great if you're eating on the patio at Barlows -- that's it. Wormwood Park (60 x 100 feet) is a garden, two picnic tables and dogs run wild on the patch of grass -- it is currently the only regularly used dog park. There is no recreational park in Fort Point for frisbee, kicking a ball around or kids playground toys anywhere.
To people living here, the new park is something we've been working on for 10 years and looking forward to using. Meetings about the park are jammed with residents. They won't be vast wastelands, guaranteed.
I can also say that anyone who lives here thinks Fort Point is Boston's biggest secret in terms of quality of life. It's an amazing neighborhood and each parcel (in the past) has been well thought out and executed -- particularly so at Channel Center.
As for block sizes, the shoulder-to-shoulder layout and large footprints at curbside is a function of Boston Wharf Co. history, not Seaport planning. And it works quite well as long as there are the pocket-sized respites you see in the Channel Center layout.
To people living here, the new park is something we've been working on for 10 years and looking forward to using. Meetings about the park are jammed with residents. They won't be vast wastelands, guaranteed.
I can also say that anyone who lives here thinks Fort Point is Boston's biggest secret in terms of quality of life. It's an amazing neighborhood and each parcel (in the past) has been well thought out and executed -- particularly so at Channel Center.
As for block sizes, the shoulder-to-shoulder layout and large footprints at curbside is a function of Boston Wharf Co. history, not Seaport planning. And it works quite well as long as there are the pocket-sized respites you see in the Channel Center layout.