New England Revolution Stadium | 173 Alford Street | Boston-Everett

Equilibria said:
Have the Krafts shown actual interest in this site, or is this just a pipe dream cooked up by the (corrupt) Mayor and his State House buddies?
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Equilibria said:
If they Commonwealth isn't building it (and I sure hope not), none of this matters. Where is Kraft?
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Pull quote from the Globe article:

Everett officials on Monday also released an agreement with the Kraft Group that spelled out a raft of community benefits from the project, perhaps the strongest public signal yet that the Revs owners are fully engaged in pursuing the site.
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As @JohnCostello mentioned, Kraft has purposely kept a low profile on the Revs stadium site search, given all the blowback from the premature announcement of a new Pats stadium in Southie back in the '90s.
 
ritchiew said:
I don't know much about this, but keeping a designated port area really seems like a plausibly good idea. The next few decades could be bad for our existing ports. Climate change will bring on sea level rise and the possibility of stronger storms. That leaves our existing port areas facing increased risk of flooding. It's hard to judge how bad it will be or on what time scale, so this seems like a bad time to abandon possibly useful port areas.
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Um, the water will be just as high and at the same level in the Mystic as it would be in Chelsea Creek or in the Reserve Channel if there was flooding. What would be the difference?
 
From someone on my feed:

“I have way bigger problems with that project than traffic. So many shenanigans went on to make this happen and it was made exempt from environmental regulation even though it will negatively impact the environment, and no would answer for how that happened. Only off-the-record tidbits about Kraft and state lawmakers and backroom dealings. My foia request only went so far, since state legislators made themselves exempt from foia requests. But hey, enjoy your soccer I guess. Lol.”

I was befuddled. Soccer Field going to cause environmental cataclysms. Not the U.S. Military or eating meat. Rising sea levels aren’t going to be due to this site being a DPA.
 
Justbuildit said:
For the sake of environmental hygiene and good civic order, please bring back the oil tankers to top off the belching powerplant on the riverfront please
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Its kind of like how Germany closed all of its nuclear power plants in the name of being “green” and now have had to make up for it by massively using coal fired plants. Oops!
 
JohnCostello said:
Um, the water will be just as high and at the same level in the Mystic as it would be in Chelsea Creek or in the Reserve Channel if there was flooding. What would be the difference?
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A quick look at some flood maps show that spot in Everett in less vulnerable to flooding than, for example the Conley Terminal in southie. To clearly see the difference, this is Everett and this is Conley Terminal flooding from mean high tide +5ft. The spot at the proposed Rev's stadium would be basically fine, but Conley Terminal is completely flooded.

Like I say, though, I don't really know about this stuff. I don't know what kinds of storms bring that flooding, or what that looks like in 20 years, or how exactly that affects port operations, or is what is being done to address it, or what it will cost. I was hoping someone on here might know something. But from my little bit of knowledge, it really seems reasonable to hold onto what port area we have.
 
ritchiew said:
A quick look at some flood maps show that spot in Everett in less vulnerable to flooding than, for example the Conley Terminal in southie. To clearly see the difference, this is Everett and this is Conley Terminal flooding from mean high tide +5ft. The spot at the proposed Rev's stadium would be basically fine, but Conley Terminal is completely flooded.

Like I say, though, I don't really know about this stuff. I don't know what kinds of storms bring that flooding, or what that looks like in 20 years, or how exactly that affects port operations, or is what is being done to address it, or what it will cost. I was hoping someone on here might know something. But from my little bit of knowledge, it really seems reasonable to hold onto what port area we have.
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That's especially true if this stadium project raises the site and constructs shoreline protection, which it will.
 
Equilibria said:
Have the Krafts shown actual interest in this site, or is this just a pipe dream cooked up by the (corrupt) Mayor and his State House buddies?
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This is no pipe dream. This was always Kraft's dream to have the Pats stadium in the Seaport. Having a soccer stadium in Everett next to the only Casino near Boston is a Cash Cow based on the demographics and diversity of the overall surrounding towns.
This will be a a logistics nightmare for traffic and construction for the next decade.

There is money to be made here and Everett is evolving into a entertainment district of Boston.

Everett= Smart City Concept by the Global Development Agenda.
 
chr31ter said:
A copy of the signed agreement between the City of Everett, and "NRS, LLC".


I'm assuming "NRS" stands for New Revolution Stadium. Agreement appears to be signed by James Cobrey, who is a VP and General Counsel for The Kraft Group.
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Information gold mine, and such a great read! The MOA spells out so many project commitments upon the stadium coming to fruition, you can paint a mental picture of the numerous ways this development will affect the community. Pedestrian infrastructure investment to Sullivan Station; a $5M community center; a Boston Harborwalk-grade Harborwalk designed to climate resilient standards that knits neatly with the Encore Boston Harborwalk (and eventually Mystic River crossing to Assembly Row).
And they even call to preserve deep water docking capabilities—so large ferry service (and maybe even cruise ship berthing?!?!) is in the cards. I’m kvelling!
 
Equilibria said:
That's especially true if this stadium project raises the site and constructs shoreline protection, which it will.
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From the signed agreement with the city of Everett, the Krafts, as developers, are required to elevate the property by a minimum of 14 feet above the NAVD88 datum (for Boston), and to protect the property to 16 feet above the NAVD88 datum by using one of two alternative methods. The NAVD88 datum for Boston is 5.51 feet. (Mean high water for Boston is 9.84 feet. So the max protection will be over 11 feet above mean high water.)

See;
https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/datums.html?id=8443970[/irl]
 
chr31ter said:
A copy of the signed agreement between the City of Everett, and "NRS, LLC".


I'm assuming "NRS" stands for New Revolution Stadium. Agreement appears to be signed by James Cobrey, who is a VP and General Counsel for The Kraft Group.
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With this, I think this is no longer a "possible" stadium but a proposed one.

At long last, @Arlington, @BeeLine - should we change the thread name? "New England Revolution Stadium | 173 Alford Street | Everett"?

Also - Kraft has committed to 75 parking spaces and banning overflow parking at the Encore, essentially making the stadium car free...
 
dshoost88 said:
Information gold mine, and such a great read! The MOA spells out so many project commitments upon the stadium coming to fruition, you can paint a mental picture of the numerous ways this development will affect the community. Pedestrian infrastructure investment to Sullivan Station; a $5M community center; a Boston Harborwalk-grade Harborwalk designed to climate resilient standards that knits neatly with the Encore Boston Harborwalk (and eventually Mystic River crossing to Assembly Row).
And they even call to preserve deep water docking capabilities—so large ferry service (and maybe even cruise ship berthing?!?!) is in the cards. I’m kvelling!
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In addition to the parking, they also promise to consolidate park space on the waterfront, so I think the turbine hall is a goner unless it somehow becomes the "community center" (which doesn't appear to be located on-site. You could theoretically fit the stadium within the turbine hall facade if you went right up to Alford, which would be very cool, but as you say, the project is pretty well sketched out here. Park on the Mystic waterfront, with the stadium on rear of the site right across Dexter from East of Broadway (I could see a skybridge between the two, actually).
 
Eh, saw a bit of that MOU online.
This jumped out

"Parking (and I find this hard to believe). Quoted verbatim for accuracy:Limit their on-site vehicular parking spaces (not including loading docks and similar areas) to 75. A separate agreement between Wynn and the Proponent shall be entered into to disallow overflow stadium parking at either the Encore Boston Harbor or Wynn’s East of Broadway garages. In doing so, Proponent commits to funding a study and subsequent implementation of improved pedestrian infrastructure from the Sullivan Square MBTA Station to the Project Site to ensure protected and efficient access, subject to any relevant local and State approvals and availability of funds."

A 25k stadium with 75 parking spots and no access to the Casino lots? That wouldn't even hit the disabled spots required.
 
I think the 75 parking spaces is a bait and switch. During the community engagement phase, the NIMBYs will focus hard on that above all else. The Krafts will come back with some larger number, looking like good guys to everybody -- NIMBYs will like that they "caved" and urbanists will like that they tried. Meanwhile, we will all be so absorbed by the parking fight, that nobody will notice whatever else might be out there as legitimate issues.
 
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