Waterfront Park Proposal | Fort Point

[stellarfun]

Details to come.

Walsh outlined “a series of connected parks at Fort Point Channel” that would link downtown, Chinatown, and South Boston, and called the space “a new jewel in our park system.”

http://www.bostonglobe.com/business...-waterfront/M7IL5NqOJ5I9PYWjVe7x0O/story.html

 

[Kinopio]

I love the idea. I was recently in Oslo and Copenhagen and enjoyed the waterfront parks, restaurants and the pedestrian/cycling bridges that connect them. Boston needs to stop designing places for cars and start making them for people.

 

[reverend_paco]

Details to come.

Walsh outlined “a series of connected parks at Fort Point Channel” that would link downtown, Chinatown, and South Boston, and called the space “a new jewel in our park system.”

http://www.bostonglobe.com/business...-waterfront/M7IL5NqOJ5I9PYWjVe7x0O/story.html

Curious as to how they could link Chinatown in there as it's separated from the others by a highway, commuter rail, train station and another district (a leather one).

 

[JeffDowntown]

Curious as to how they could link Chinatown in there as it's separated from the others by a highway, commuter rail, train station and another district (a leather one).

My vision of the linkage would be on the southern side of Chinatown using a bit of air rights and highway parcels:

Start at the One Greenway Park (terraced park, lower left); connect along the South Station Connector Road to a new park in Parcel 27 (grass oval in middle right -- virtually undevelopable due to poor road access), then continue across a pedestrian bridge over the rail tracks to a new green space in the redeveloped Postal Service parcel to a pedestrian bridge over Fort Point Channel; landing on a new waterfront park in the waterfront Gillette parking lots next to the new GE HQ.

 

[odurandina]

#re-elect Marty; Well played Mr. Mayor.

....the other shoe gonna drop post-reelection

1 Brom + Columbus CTR returns,

Harbor Garage redevelopment rendaars and miracle Chiofaro/Aquarium accord...

rfp #State Service Center redevelopment annouced.....

 

[Jouhou]

I love the idea. I was recently in Oslo and Copenhagen and enjoyed the waterfront parks, restaurants and the pedestrian/cycling bridges that connect them. Boston needs to stop designing places for cars and start making them for people.

Boston is better about being pedestrian friendly than most of the us. My observation about new england: our cities are a lot like European ones, we just have roads for cars cutting through our city squares that would be pedestrian only in Europe.

 

[odurandina]

^^one more reason why i believe Boston will edge out the competition for Amazon HQ2. ....techie friend claims (some) even fear the lion's share of Amazon ultimately residing in Boston (or New York).