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VOLUME XVIII - ISSUE 36
South Boston Development Update
Rockin’ at the 2016 Beach Party!
by Rick Winterson This article will attempt to summarize the frenetic pace of development in South Boston. It keys in on seven major individual developments, including those areas of South Boston being most intensively developed. South Boston Online encourages you to keep yourself up to date about what’s going on, via the Internet, public meetings, business articles, whatever – it is your hometown. Obviously, our Waterfront is the epicenter of major developments on the peninsula we all call South Boston. We have recently reported on the Grand Opening of Joe Fallon’s 100 Northern Avenue building (Online’s June 16 issue), the work-in-progress at the Eversource substation powering the Waterfront (August 11), and the General Electric Headquarters
by Rick Winterson For the last several years, the Curley Community Center has hosted an Annual Endof-Summer Beach Party on its enclosed beach on the M Street side of that institution.
An elevation rendering of the proposed GE Headquarters looking north from the Channel. relocation (August 4). Were you aware that South Boston, with just 10% of Boston’s land area and only 5% of its population, received over 60% of the City’s building permits last year. And the pace of construction continues more intensely, if anything..
port Square Project grows by leaps and bounds every day. It’s not all upscale residences and office buildings, either. In one of Seaport Square’s byways, a charming Our Lady of Good Voyage Chapel is planned, with Romanesque/Medieval touches.
Two huge projects on the South Boston Waterfront are worth noting. John Hynes’ Sea-
Massport recently presented its initial design for their South
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This year was no exception; it weas a fitting way to bid summer goodbye. Said party was presented with the courtesy of Massport, at the Curley Center, which is part of the City of Boston’s Centers for Youth and Families. The weather smiled (it was fairly cool), the refreshments refreshed, and the entertainment
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