Seaport project could include theneighborhood’s first fire station
An office and lab building on Channel Street includes an option for long-desired civic uses in the burgeoning business district
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Lincoln Property Co. and QuakerLane Capital have received tentative designation to build a lab at 7 Channel St. in the South Boston Seaport. The building could include the neighborhood's first fire station. ARROWSTREET/STUDIO LUZ
“The Seaport’s first fire station could be coming to the site of the former Stavis Seafoods Inc. — if the Boston Planning and Development Agency moves forward with one of two development options for the site.
The BPDA board at its monthly board meeting on Thursday granted tentative designation to a joint venture of Lincoln Property Co. and QuakerLane Capital to build a 262,000-square-foot, nine-story office and lab at 7 Channel St., a BPDA-owned property in the Raymond L. Flynn Marine Park. Lincoln and QuakerLane were one of three development teams that responded to a BPDA request for proposals issued last year.
That RFP called for two development scenarios — including one, Program B, asking for “a core and shell space within the development for community and/or government use,” said Emma Bird, a senior real estate development officer at the BPDA,
at the June 15 meeting.
The BPDA anticipates that, under program B, the space may serve as a Boston fire station as needed to better serve the Marine Park and the greater South Boston/Seaport neighborhood,” Bird said. “If the BPDA decides to move forward under program B, the proposed building will also include a two-floor firehouse on the ground floor and first floor.”
The Seaport has long faced criticism for its lack of basic municipal services such as a fire or police station, library, or school…”
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