THE PRINT EDITION
THURSDAY, JANUARY 07, 2021
VOLUME XIX- ISSUE 74
“Boston Seaport” Construction Enters Final Decade by Rick Winterson
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ate last year, South Boston Online had the privilege (and pleasure) of interviewing Yanni Tsipis, who is the Senior Vice President (SVP) of Development for WS Development. WS Development is the corporate entity, which has been in charge of the single largest construction project in the South Boston’s Seaport District. During our interview, SVP Tsipis was accompanied by his newly appointed Director of Property Management, Stacy Cawley. She oversees day-to-day operations and management of all the parks, buildings, and public areas for which WS is responsible in the Seaport. Here’s a brief update on WS Development’s entire Seaport District project that is now formally entitled “Boston Seaport”. The Boston Seaport
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project is the largest in the Seaport District, and compares to the largest of any major project in the City of Boston. It originally involved a total of 20 new buildings. Nine of these remain to be built; three of those nine are under construction and will be completed this year (2021). WS Development is sensitive to the need for open space within the Boston Seaport project, so they are planning a spacious system of parks, walkways, and public areas that will ultimately extend from Boston Harbor all the way south to Summer Street. The entire Boston Seaport project is planned to be completed in eight to ten years. That’s approximately 2030 or so, which is Boston’s 400th Anniversary (how fitting!). We have written about SVP Yanni Tsipis and the Boston Seaport project in the past. Yanni grew up in Brookline and attended M.I.T., where he completed his degrees in
The 2021 Plunge Proceeds Last Friday, a couple of dozen plungers entered the water at K Street Beach. When we inquired, they would only say, “We are just a group of family and friends”. The plungers on the M Street Beach side of “the L” were a more random collection of bathers. They went in and out of the water at random, but nevertheless, it was still a Plunge. Above the water line, a group of non-plungers made
hot coffee using a solar heater. So, South Boston’s L Street Brownies’ Plunge #119 actually did take place on the morning of Friday, January 1 (well, sort of ). And oddly enough, there was a State Police harbor craft anchored off the beach at M. There’s nothing like being extra-safe! (Visit our website at South Boston Online for more photos or our facebook page).
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