BostonUrbEx
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I do not have any knowledge of proposals or projects - past or present - involved with this underutilized land between the Lynn Way and the harbor. This is based solely on my own whimsical fantasies and wandering imagination.
http://www.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UT...34766256038742.000492d092e304febfb49&t=k&z=15
The land purchased in this project would be primarily unused/vacant. Some would be bought off of trucking and hauling businesses, and scrapyards/impound lots. There is also the Lynn sewerage treatment plant which I have no idea what to do with them, but they MUST change something about the open-air treatment process. Make a facility like Deer Island somewhere, so it doesn't stink, or somehow hook the system into the Deer Island facility itself.
The village would put a good stretch of Lynn waterfront to some use, and could be a great coastal residential development. It would be comprised of apartments and a few condo units. My primary inspiration is Oak Grove Village, which I spent about 10 seconds looking at a map of, and the buildings on Revere Beach. The big attraction would of course be the units along "Marine Blvd" facing the harbor. Also, the very urban-feeling "Lynnport Common" with a nice one-block greenspace surrounded by some ground level retail will have a big pull. And, of course, tied into a bikepath system that runs along the water and connects the whole village.
I have not mapped out the buildings as I see them as of yet, but may do that later. I would try not to have any parking lots at all. Maybe a parking lot underneath the buildings, but that's the extent of it. I would encourage biking and mass transit. This would preferably take place after some sort of Blue Line extension to Lynn, with a West Lynn station.
This would hopefully be the beginning of dense redevelopment of the area, with the next move being the entire area around the railroad tracks and the Lynnway up to Lynn Center.
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http://www.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UT...34766256038742.000492d092e304febfb49&t=k&z=15
The land purchased in this project would be primarily unused/vacant. Some would be bought off of trucking and hauling businesses, and scrapyards/impound lots. There is also the Lynn sewerage treatment plant which I have no idea what to do with them, but they MUST change something about the open-air treatment process. Make a facility like Deer Island somewhere, so it doesn't stink, or somehow hook the system into the Deer Island facility itself.
The village would put a good stretch of Lynn waterfront to some use, and could be a great coastal residential development. It would be comprised of apartments and a few condo units. My primary inspiration is Oak Grove Village, which I spent about 10 seconds looking at a map of, and the buildings on Revere Beach. The big attraction would of course be the units along "Marine Blvd" facing the harbor. Also, the very urban-feeling "Lynnport Common" with a nice one-block greenspace surrounded by some ground level retail will have a big pull. And, of course, tied into a bikepath system that runs along the water and connects the whole village.
I have not mapped out the buildings as I see them as of yet, but may do that later. I would try not to have any parking lots at all. Maybe a parking lot underneath the buildings, but that's the extent of it. I would encourage biking and mass transit. This would preferably take place after some sort of Blue Line extension to Lynn, with a West Lynn station.
This would hopefully be the beginning of dense redevelopment of the area, with the next move being the entire area around the railroad tracks and the Lynnway up to Lynn Center.
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