Hood Business Park | 480-570 Rutherford Avenue | Charlestown

Where is Hood's milk being processed now? I still see it in the stores. :unsure:
 
HenryAlan said:
I had a tube pinch flat on my bike in front of the casino a few days ago, so walked the bike to the Landry's on Hood Park Drive. Man is that area inaccessible by bike! Once I had the new tube in, my choices for getting back to Sullivan Square/Cambridge St. were either riding on the Rutheford Hwy sidewalk, which is something I really can't stand doing, or crossing over a muddy, discontinued railway ROW, including over a couple of raised rails. How hard would it be to get a road crew on to that stretch of mud in order to provide a more reasonable type of access?
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... we know. Follow this for updates on Rutherford Avenue project to make it more accessible.
 
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New retail space open - "Urban Wild":
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HenryAlan said:
I had a tube pinch flat on my bike in front of the casino a few days ago, so walked the bike to the Landry's on Hood Park Drive. Man is that area inaccessible by bike! Once I had the new tube in, my choices for getting back to Sullivan Square/Cambridge St. were either riding on the Rutheford Hwy sidewalk, which is something I really can't stand doing, or crossing over a muddy, discontinued railway ROW, including over a couple of raised rails. How hard would it be to get a road crew on to that stretch of mud in order to provide a more reasonable type of access?
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A pedestrian bridge behind Citizens Bank would be clutch. This area needs a better connection to the rest of Charlestown.
 
How a former dairy plant is becoming Boston’s newest destination

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“Just a couple decades ago, the 20 acres off Rutherford Avenue in Charlestown owned by the H.P. Hood dairy company was a bustling industrial site.

Today, the campus is beginning to bustle in a new way as new residential, lab and retail construction is taking over what is now known as Hood Park. The site boasts almost 600,000 square feet of office and lab space, 51,000 square feet of retail space and 177 residential units; in the future, it is expected to be home to 1.8 million square feet office and lab space, 100,000 square feet of retail, 335 apartments and 150 hotel rooms.

“One of the biggest changes was actually all at the ground level ... There was a sea of asphalt,” said Christopher Kaneb, manager of Hood Park LLC, about the property before development began. “Development really hadn’t come this far. (100 Hood Park Drive) was surrounded by almost 15 acres of parking. It was functional, but a very, very different experience.”


H.P. Hood was founded in 1846 and operated its headquarters and dairy plant at the site off of Rutherford Avenue in Charlestown until 1995, when the company was sold to the Kaneb family, which still owns and operates the company as a separate entity from Hood Park.

Just a few minutes’ walk from the Sullivan Square MBTA stop, in the last few years, Hood Park has become Boston’s newest major life science development.

In June, 100 Hood Park Drive, a building that provides a centerpiece for the campus, reached the height of its construction at 13 stories. The base of the building, consisting of seven stories, 61,000 square feet of lab space, ground-floor retail and a 900-space parking garage, was completed in 2020; next year, an additional 186,000 square feet of office and lab space is expected to open in the top five stories.

While it may be the biggest construction project at the site, 100 Hood Park is far from the only home of lab and technology space. Several other buildings, including both new construction and renovated buildings dating from the days of Hood’s dairy plant, are now home to a variety of companies ranging from national players to small start-ups, and more space is being constructed all the time….”

https://www.masslive.com/boston/202...ostons-newest-destination.html?outputType=amp
 

Hood Park wins multiple awards for landscape and architecture​

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“Charlestown, MA Hood Park, the 20-acre, mixed-use development, has been awarded two awards for the innovative design of 6 Stack St., the campus’s half-acre public green and custom Landry’s Bicycles Service Center. The American Society of Landscape Architects’ (ASLA) recognized 6 Stack St. with the Honor Award for General Design and the International Architecture Awards (IAA) recognized 6 Stack St. with an award for Public Space. 6 Stack St. is the only project from the United States to be recognized by the IAA in the Public Space category.

6 Stack St. is an elevated, half-acre public green with an interior wood-clad bike pavilion located underneath. In their respective award announcements, both the IAA and ASLA praised the unique, sloped topography of 6 Stack St.’s green that serves as an innovative buffer for the Hood Park campus, protecting it from noise and pollution caused by the surrounding interstate and nearby industrial areas. Intentionally designed to proactively address environmental issues, the sloped design also raises the project out of future coastal flooding zones and provides stormwater storage to accommodate runoff for current and future buildings on-site.

Native plantings play an important role in the sustainable design of 6 Stack St. Located primarily on the second-floor roof deck of 6 Stack St., these plants cleanse the air of nearby pollutants, mitigate the urban heat-island effect and enhance the natural beauty of the site. The second-floor roof deck with its native plantings connects to 6 Stack St.’s sloped lawn by a universally accessible path that coalesces at a street-level stage. This street-level stage serves as a community gathering spot for Hood Park’s many community events including farmers’ markets, and live music performances.“

https://nerej.com/hood-park-wins-multiple-awards-for-landscape-and-architecture
 
Agreed, the way they built the area its like they expect it to be isolated and next to a highway forever. Wont be too too bad now but once it fills in all the garages will seem out of place.
 
all the garages? there is only one and it was built that it could be converted into a building should parking demand go away in the future.
You should see the PDA from 2001. Legit suburban office park with 2 above ground garages along Rutherford where the Harvey is now and Hood Green is planned.
 
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