0 Seaport Office Boom Leads to Traffic Complications

Boston seaport office building on Congress St

303 Congress Street (click to view property details)

The Seaport is a vibrant live, work and play location that continue to evolve.  The next challenge for all the success is how to mitigate the traffic.

From Banker & Tradesman:

Seaport Boulevard is a hotbed of construction, boasting corporate headquarters with worldwide name recognition…[and] with only two bridged access points, the neighborhood’s traffic is not yet overwhelmingly terrible (at least not any more than the rest of the city), but it grows worse with every new high-rise. Parking is becoming increasingly scarce, particularly in the winter months.

City planners are well aware of these issues and are taking steps to address them. Despite growing pains, the neighborhood known varyingly as Fort Point, the Seaport and yes, even the Innovation District, is an unparalleled success.

0 Permit Application Filed to Dismantle Northern Avenue Bridge

Boston Seaport Bridge under construction

Credit: The Boston Globe

The Northern Ave. Bridge is closer to becoming a memory, once joining the Financial District to the Seaport.  When it was built it would have been hard to imagine that it would come to connect two vibrant, non-industrial areas of our waterfront. Let’s hope the city moves forward with a replacement to assist in the congestion of success that has occurred.

From the Boston Globe:

In a new permit application filed with the Army Corps of Engineers, the agency that oversees the waterway, the city proposes dismantling the bridge by disconnecting its three spans and transporting the pieces via barge to a city-owned storage yard in East Boston.

Full dismantling of the structure — which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and beloved by preservationists — could take up to three months, said city engineer Para M. Jayasinghe. It is expected to cost $15 million.

While the bridge is being taken down, the channel would have to be closed to accommodate the work.