Lynn Waterfront Redevelopment

[philip]

A friend sent this to me. I recall a plan a few years ago that called for a huge space needle like tower. Also, a plan to inject some high tech business into their downtown, which is quite big, but in bad shape.

This city has alot of potential but, I think, it's unlikely to achieve it any time soon.

It really needs the blue line extension and an active, more lively waterfront. Of course a boost to its economy wouldn't hurt either.

http://projects.sasaki.com/lynnwaterfront/worktodate.html

 

[vanshnookenraggen]

This is exactly what Boston should have done for the SBW. If Lynn out does Boston there are some officials that are going to have a shit fit.

I like how they have a variety of housing options. There are the more luxury towers in one section and then rowhouses in the older section. This is a very smart plan.

 

[bdurden]

If anyone can get it done, surely it is Sasaki & Associates. I've said it before, they should have been contracted to tie together the Rose Kennedy Greenway. What they did for the Charleston, SC waterfront is nothing short of spectacular.

 

[BeeLine]

Now that the GE Gear Plant has been demolished, does anyone know what will happen with the property? Will it be given to the city and included in the Waterfront master plan, sold to the higest bidder or will GE just sit on it for another decade or two.

 

[Seanflynn78]

I used to work in Lynn and I know they plan on developing the area near the GE Plant into commerical property. I am not sure if that area was considered a brownfield/superfund site. The area was used as a toxic dump stop for all the jet engines/chemicals left overs for years. I am excited to hear the waterfront will finally be developed for mixed use. All they need now is to move the blue line up from Revere up to Lynn Beach and the property values in Lynn will be worth investing in.

 

[Nexis4jersey]

Is there a plan for TOD around the train station?

 

[DZH22]

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[Hubman]

I wonder how Lynn plans on activating its waterfront. It is severely disadvantaged by the RR tracks, the Lynnway, the parking lots, and the remenants of some port facilities. Of course, it didn't help to have a big fire that destroyed all of the industrial buildings in east of the RR.

 

[kjdonovan]

^ Nine years between posts. Keep it up, Lynn.

 

[shmessy]

North of Boston, an old industrial city gets a second look - The Boston Globe

In Lynn, old brick factories are gradually being converted to lofts, new buildings are starting to rise, and there’s an arts community and budding food scene. That’s bringing life to downtown, but it’s also putting pressure on current residents who worry they’ll be priced out.

www.bostonglobe.com

 

[DZH22]

Not exactly the waterfront but you can see the water and I don't know where the heck else to put these. From the base of High Rock Tower.

IMG_2193 by David Z, on Flickr

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[shmessy]

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Great things are developing in Lynn. To paraphrase Wayne Gretzky, 'It's time the Blue Line extends to where the puck is GOING TO BE'.

And........Just coincidentally ".......“The waterfront was always so blocked off that people didn’t even know what was down there,” said Tom McGee, a former mayor and state senator who is now chair of the MBTA board of directors....."
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The Lynn waterfront was a dump. Literally. But what if it became a park? - The Boston Globe

A festering landfill blanketed by swarming seagulls that was so massive it took more than a million tons of soil to cover up is becoming ... something nice.

www.bostonglobe.com

"......What if they took a page from Spectacle Island, the harbor island that went from being a dumping ground to a destination, and created something similar, but you didn’t need a boat to get there? Heck, what if they hired Brown, Richardson + Rowe, the landscape architects who designed Spectacle Island?

It was a crazy idea, everyone agreed. And it took a complicated public-private partnership between Charter and several city and state agencies to pull it off. On September 23, after years of work, the city will host an official ribbon-cutting for the 30-acre park.

But while the park itself is new, its impact has been felt for years, because its impending arrival has served as an anchor for a new way of thinking about the city and its ocean.

On the parcel just next to it, a massive mixed-use development is underway that is set to include 850 housing units, 26,000 square-feet of retail and restaurant space, and an 8-acre public park that will connect to Lynn Harbor Park and become part of an ocean promenade that will eventually extend nearly a mile from the Saugus River to the causeway that leads to Nahant, and connect there to Lynn’s beaches.

The South Harbor development, by Boston-based Samuels & Associates, is the largest private investment in city history. And it is just next to a recently completed 550-unit apartment building called The Shipwright, which is on the site of a former Building 19......"

 

[onportland]

Made the death defying bike ride from Marblehead to the park entrance. The city will need to grow in around it but it will become an amazing feature of the city's reimagining.