Just wild how much space was over there. All those decades of buildings being wedged in next to each other on the other side of the canal where massive stretches of parking lots sat waiting to be developed. Even after all the development, there are still angles where the Seaport looks almost undeveloped.
Czervik -- We are witnessing another Back Bay in progress
Back Bay took about 50 years to go from a mud flat at low tide to mostly built-out
The Seaport*1 was not a mud flat 50 years ago but there was practically nothing except the Piers along the Harbor and the Old DOD stuff from WWII down by the Reserve Channel
Starting with The Court House & Fidelity we've seen steady and even accelerating build-out highlighted by major projects:
1986 World Trade Center Boston -- Massachusetts Port Authority designated Fidelity Investments and The Drew Company to redevelop Commonwealth Pier as the World Trade Center Boston
1998, Fidelity Investments and The Drew Company opened the Seaport Boston Hotel connected to the World Trade Center
1999 John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse --- cost of $170 million -- Henry N. Cobb and Ian Bader of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
2002 World Trade Center West -- more Fidelity and The Drew Company
2000 World Trade Center East -- more Fidelity and The Drew Company
2004 Boston Convention & Exhibition Center -- Mass Convention Center Authority - Rafael Viñoly Architects, with The HNTB Companies
2004 Manulife -- John Hancock -- Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP -- with Stull and Lee, Inc.
2005 Park Lane Seaport I
2006 Park Lane Seaport II
2006 Westin Boston Waterfront -- Arrowstreet Inc.
2006 ICA -- Diller Scofidio + Renfro
2008 Renaissance Boston Waterfront -- Cheryl Rowley Design with The Stubbins Associates, Inc.
2010 One Marina Park Drive -- Fan Pier -- Elkus Manfredi Architects Ltd.
2011 Liberty Wharf -- $60 million – restaurants: Jerry Remy’s, Temazcal, Del Frisco’s, and Legal Harborside
2012 District Hall -- – BGI*MP [collectively Seaport Sq.] -- Hacin + Associates
2013 Vertex Pharmaceuticals: — 2-18-story towers -- Fan Pier with 1.1 M sq. ft R&D labs and office
2013 Eleven Fan Pier Boulevard
2014 Waterside Place 2
2015 100 Pier 4
2015 101 Seaport – BGI*MP [collectively Seaport Sq.]
2015 Twenty Two Liberty Drive Fan Pier
2016 Aloft Boston Seaport
2016 The Watermark Seaport
2017 VIA – Fan Pier
2017 The Benjamin Seaport Residences – BGI*MP [collectively Seaport Sq.]
2017 One Seaport Square -- BGI*MP [collectively Seaport Sq.]
2017 YOTEL Boston
2018 50 Liberty Fan Pier
2018 121 Seaport
2018 Pier 4 Office Building
2019 Echelon Seaport I – BGI*MP [collectively Seaport Sq.]
2019 NEMA Boston -– BGI*MP [collectively Seaport Sq.]
2020 Gables Seaport -- BGI*MP [collectively Seaport Sq.]
2020 St. Regis Residences, Boston
2020 Echelon Seaport II – BGI*MP [collectively Seaport Sq.]
2020 Echelon Seaport III – BGI*MP [collectively Seaport Sq.]
2020 88 Seaport
2020 Two Drydock ≈161 ft 13 high-rise building
2021 10 Fan Pier Boulevard
2021 111 Harbor Way – BGI*MP [collectively Seaport Sq.] –Gensler -- Amazon
*1 -- Please - -to you with itchy fingers -- I didn't forget what was along the Fort Point Channel and the Boston Wharf Co and Gillette or even Papas -- I'm limiting my post to discussing what is the Fidelity, Fan Pier, Court House, and McCourt properties which have been developed in the period since 1970
Apologize in advance if there are duplications or errors in the completion dates based on quoted sources [often Emporis]
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