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The State, through its MassDOT transportation agency, is currently considering two final proposals for designation at Parcel 9 along the Greenway near Haymarket. Blackstone Market (Cresset Group & DeNormandie Cos.) – 70 rental housing units, 9 stories high, at North Street with up to 3 restaurants on second floor, community room, a first floor retail [...]
@HeadCoachKev tweets out this photo of the dog park on Richmond Street undergoing renovations. See this post for more details from RUFF. Did you take a cool photo? Have it featured by emailing it to info@northendwaterfront.com.
As part of the Mayor’s Boston Shines event, the Mass Department of Transportation is teaming with RUFF and the Mayor’s office to give the Richmond Street park a facelift. The Mass DOT will be putting down all new ground cover in the park, as well as adding new plantings and fences within the park. Work [...]
Video: Two final presentations for the Greenway / Central Artery Parcel 9 at public meeting hosted by property owner Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) on March 20, 2013 at Mariner’s House in Boston’s North End. Presenting are (1) Blackstone Market by Cresset Group / DeNormandie Cos. and (2) Haymarket Square by Normandy Partners / Jones [...]
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation Invites you to a meeting regarding: Callahan Tunnel Vent Building (North Street) Rehabilitation Project Wednesday, March 27th – 6:00pm Nazzaro Community Center The contractor as well as MassDOT project staff will present the project details and schedule. For more information, please contact John Romano, MassDOT Municipal Liaison at 857-368-8905 or [...]
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation Invites you to a meeting of the: Parcel 7 and Parcel 9 RFP Advisory Committee Wednesday, March 20th – 6:00pm Mariner’s House – 2nd Floor 11 North Square The 2 final proposers for Parcel 9 will present their responses to Addendum 3 of the Parcel 9 RFP. Parcel 9 is [...]
MassDOT , the State’s transportation agency, wants to know what promises the final two bidders for the Parcel 9 development have made to the Haymarket Pushcart Association (HPA). The HPA is an important part of the development’s prospects because its operations are literally in and around the Greenway parcel. In letters sent out this week [...]
The following is a shared letter exchange regarding the final Parcel 9 development designation between Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) Secretary & CEO Richard Davey and Mr. Frederick A. (Tad) Stahl, FAIA of the Beacon Hill Civic Association and a member of the Parcel 7 & 9 Advisory Committee. Several previous comment letters can be [...]
In a landslide of comment and recommendation letters for the final Parcel 9 designation, Cresset / DeNormandie’s Blackstone Market proposal gained broad support from a myriad of community and business interests against Normandy Partners’ Haymarket Square Hotel. Perhaps most notably, the Haymarket Pushcart Association has come out strongly against a hotel at the site. Parcel [...]
MassDOT – Your Vision, Our Future: A Transportation Conversation The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) will hold a series of statewide discussions this fall to engage the public in a conversation about the transportation system they want and what we need to do to achieve that vision. The purpose of these meetings is to hear [...]
The Registry of Motor Vehicles is moving adjacent to the North End into the 2nd and 3rd floors of Parcel 7, the tunnel vent building / parking garage adjacent to the Greenway parks. The ground floor of Parcel 7 remains slated for the Boston Public Food Market. The RMV is currently located on Washington Street [...]
Two of the four original bidders for the Parcel 9 development project will move forward to a Best and Final Offer round, including: Haymarket Square Hotel (Normandy Partners) – 180-room hotel with 2-story public winter garden, a ground market, pushcart and retail space, top floor restaurant and rooftop garden. (Presentation & Video) Blackstone Market (Cresset [...]
There are two statues of famous North Enders in the neighborhood. Colonial patriot Paul Revere is honored in the Prado. And now, there is a bronze of Italian American boxing legend, Tony DeMarco, on the corner of Hanover Street and Cross Street at the gateway to the North End. The pride of the North End, [...]
MASSDOT TRAFFIC ADVISORY: WEEKEND WORK TO RESTRICT LANES ON I-93 NORTHBOUND Crews to Replace Concrete Pavement with Hot Mix Asphalt from Tunnel Exit to Zakim BOSTON — This weekend, MassDOT will address a 600 foot section of deteriorating concrete pavement from the I-93 Northbound exit of the O’Neill Tunnel to the southern joint of the [...]
Event announcement and sketch rendering of the Tony DeMarco statue, courtesy of the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame: Event: Former undisputed Welterweight Champion, Tony DeMarco, will attend the unveiling of his statue in Boston’s North End. Date: Saturday, October 20, 2012 Time: 1:00 p.m. Place: Corner of Hanover St. [...]
***Canceled due to rain*** Press release from MassDOT regarding weekend work and lane closures on I-93 tunnel exits sections: MASSDOT TRAFFIC ADVISORY: WEEKEND WORK TO RESTRICT LANES ON I-93 NORTHBOUND Crews to Replace Concrete Pavement with Hot Mix Asphalt from Tunnel Exit to Zakim BOSTON (Monday, September 24, 2012) — This weekend, MassDOT will address [...]
MassDOT is holding a public meeting on August 8, 2012, 7pm in Legends at TD Garden regarding the planned redesign of Causeway Street, from the Keany Square at the intersection of N. Washington Street to Merrimac Street including Lomasney Way. The complete meeting notice and comment form is available here (pdf) with sections pasted below. [...]
Following Tuesday’s meeting by the Greenway Conservancy with their 5-year plan, State Representative Peter Durant (R-Spencer) issued the following letter to their regulator and landowner, Mass. Department of Transportation. MassDOT Secretary Richard Davey has stated his intention to wean the Conservancy from public funding within five years. The associated press release, shown below, notes the [...]
The Rose F. Kennedy Greenway Conservancy (RFKGC) presented its 5 Year Business Plan at a Tuesday night meeting, strongly countering the notion that the Greenway parks can be managed without public funding from the State. Instead, the private non-profit presented a plan to significantly grow annual revenues by $2 million to over $6.5 million while [...]
The newly opened Armenian Heritage Park will be maintained by UGL Services, a commercial property firm that beat out the non-profit Rose F. Kennedy Greenway Conservancy for the operating contract, according to Commonwealth Magazine. “The Conservancy bid provided significant value, but their price was a little bit higher” than UGL, <Armenian Heritage Foundation’s James> Kalustian [...]
In the closest 4-option poll we have ever had , the results are too close to call among the Parcel 9 development proposals currently under consideration by the Mass. Department of Transportation. With a total of 82 votes, Market Square by Upton + Partners slightly edged out the others with 29% of the vote, followed [...]
The neighborhood groups are leaning toward Upton + Partners residences, the Haymarket Pushcart Association favors Blackstone Market mixed-use, the Boston Globe is holding the torch for the Boston Museum and Normandy Partners’ hotel plan is caught in the middle. The proposals are out, the presentations are done and the Mass. Department of Transportation (MassDOT) will soon [...]
Message from MassDOT on planned repair work on I-93 N on-ramp at corner of Cross Street and New Chardon Street on Saturday, June 16, 2012: My name is John Romano and I work for the MassDOT. We are planning on doing some repair work to the I-93 Northbound On-Ramp at the corner of Cross St [...]
In a strongly worded recommendation, the Haymarket Pushcart Association (HPA) has come out firmly behind the “Blackstone Market” proposal by the Cresset Group and DeNormandie Companies for the Parcel 9 development project along the Greenway. The members of the HPA – themselves representing nationalities and languages from all over the globe – are proud of [...]
The comments are “in” regarding the four proposed developments for Parcel 9 and there appears to be a broad, but not exclusive, edge of support given to the “Market Square” rental housing and “Eataly” concept proposed by Upton + Partners. The upper levels of “Market Square” include residential rental units with the lower section focusing [...]
The streets of the North End / Waterfront and downtown Boston just became safer, at least during the day. A State decision came down Friday indicating that dangerous hazardous material trucks won’t be passing through the city during the hours of 6 am to 8 pm. The daytime ban is a win for the North [...]
Upton + Partners presented its project proposal to MassDOT and the Parcel 9 RFP Committee members this week. The proposal includes a 119 new residential units and a specialty food market on the ground floor. The developer will contribute $2.1 million of public improvements to benefit the Haymarket Pushcart Association and will solicit $1.5 million [...]
An advisory from MassDOT: MassDOT will be accepting public comment on the four proposals it received Parcel 9 in the North End of Boston. The 30-day public comment period starts May 3, 2012 and goes to June 3, 2012. Parcel 9 is located between the John Fitzgerald Surface Road and Blackstone Street in Boston’s North [...]
Massachusetts Department of Transportation invites you to Public Information Meetings Parcel 9 RFP Developer Presentations Wednesday April 25th – 6pm Nazzaro Community Center 30 North Bennet St Tuesday May 1st – 6pm Mariner’s House 11 North Square Developers who responded to the MassDOT Parcel 9 Request for Proposals will present their proposed projects to the [...]
Following this week’s designation of Parcel 7 to the sole bidder, Boston Public Market Association, the adjacent Greenway Parcel 9 now moves into the spotlight. Four bids were submitted to the State’s transportation authority, MassDOT, that owns the parcel. The triangular lot, known as Parcel 9, is adjacent to Haymarket, Blackstone St. and the Rose [...]
The Boston Public Market Association is the sole bidder for the Parcel 7 ground floor operation of a “Made in Massachusetts” food market planned for the garage building next to Haymarket and the Greenway, according to officials. The space has been empty for 10+ years since the MassDOT building was constructed as part of the Big [...]
We have received indications that MassDOT, the State’s transportation agency, is a week or so away from a decision on our permanent Boston area hazmat truck route. The North End Hazmat Task Force encourages you to remind MassDOT how you feel about this decision. You may sign the letter below with an email of your [...]
Not content to take the medicine the State offered in its letter yesterday to move forward with a phase-out of government funding, the Greenway Conservancy came out swinging with a multi-colored slideshow defense, insisting that it needs to keep its public funding. The Conservancy has been under fire given revelations of excessive salaries and transparency [...]
The State’s regulator and owner of the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway parks, MassDOT, issued a strident and clear set of conditions to the Greenway Conservancy as part of a lease extension coming up in 2014. MassDOT Secretary Richard A. Davey reminds the Conservancy that it was always supposed to be self-sustaining through private funds. Instead, [...]
I have to hand it to the Boston Herald this week with multiple cover stories on transparency issues at the Greenway Conservancy. The GC is a private non-profit that leases the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway public parks and is largely funded with taxpayer dollars. There is nothing like an insulting, errant email to motivate a [...]
Hot on the heels of the Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Public Food Market at Parcel 7 comes the RFP for the adjacent Parcel 9 development along Blackstone Street, Haymarket and the Greenway.