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Hope so, the seaport has sooo much lab/office. The city needs so much housing, they should honestly go 100% housing here on a copy/paste extension of the southie street grid.
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It's honestly pretty crazy, rents were high enough for a massive overbuild of both pre-2022 or so. It's an honestly terrible location for jobs (no transit), but somehow the local nimbys are assuaged by promises of jobs that bring traffic not residents who would walk to work, so you have a cycle of hell.
 
It would be nice to find some details on this that aren't just an unattributed post by a rumor monger (Only in Boston), but if this is legit, then it's great news.
 
HenryAlan said:
It would be nice to find some details on this that aren't just an unattributed post by a rumor monger (Only in Boston), but if this is legit, then it's great news.
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Page 36 from the project update presentation (posted here last week) says this.
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Bananarama said:
Page 36 from the project update presentation (posted here last week) says this.
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Wow!!!! According to that, it went from 3 lab/office and 2 res/hotel to 100% res/hotel - - The new diagram is all Yellow, a clean sweep over. Much new 24/7 life to what has been a very quiet area. That's huge, and very needed!!!!
 
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MBTA tosses cold water on developer’s proposal to expand transit in Seaport area

Proponents of a new project released plans to reconfigure roadways around Boston's Seaport for a new Silver Line connection. But the MTBA says it has no plans launch new service in the area.
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Developers of a massive mixed-use project recently outlined plans to create a new thoroughfare along the southern edge of the Seaport neighborhood. They said extending F Street a half mile, connecting it to Summer Street, would lay the groundwork for a future expansion of the MBTA’s Silver Line.
But a spokesperson for the MBTA said the developers have not contacted the agency about that idea, and the T doesn’t currently have plans to extend the Silver Line in the area.
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Currently, F Street dead-ends at West First Street. The developers’ latest plan, first reported by the Boston Business Journal, calls for extending the roadway through the site. Proponents say it would give drivers another option in the area and could support a potential new Silver Line route, positioning the possibility of new transit service as a major community benefit.
“This would be a really transformational change to the transportation network here,” said Juan Carlos Lovelock, deputy director of real estate development at Massport, the quasi-public agency which owns and leases the proposed redevelopment site to Pappas Enterprises. “Massport is very supportive of this continuation of F Street.”
But a spokesperson for the MBTA told GBH News that developers haven’t reached out to them about the project.
“The MBTA is always open to collaborating with our municipal partners and stakeholders while exploring ideas to improve service,” the spokesperson said in an email. “That said, we have not been contacted regarding this proposal and there are currently no plans to extend the Silver Line in this way.”
Even if the T were on board with the idea, the reconfiguration of traffic in the project’s vicinity would have to wait nearly a decade. According to Lovelock, a storage yard that stands in the way of the F Street extension is currently under a lease that runs through 2034.
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