Babbo pizza is huge and annoyingly popular and busy but it's a good addition. And the winner, so far, is the boatbuilding business:
http://www.communityboatbuilding.org/
http://www.communityboatbuilding.org/
Jefff -- that somehow seems at variance with the fact that "Big Box" and other restaurants keep opening
It is virtually all a drive up, drop off, valet or taxi or limo crowd. So the big box restaurants do not add real street life. No one strolls through the Seaport side streets. (They do on the Harborwalk in nice weather.)
I agree Babbo is a nice place, but it does not generate any street presence. And I was particularly commenting on the side streets around the Vertex buildings, with the big box Babbo, Committee, Strega Waterfront and Empire.
The streets at ground level feel really dead, even with the scattered "big box" restaurants. No other retail, no neighborhood services...
Also nice to see One Marina Park Drive getting lost amongst the crowd now.