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Fort Point Channel
By adamg - 8/1/16 - 11:41 am
Architect's rendering. See it larger.
GE and the Massachusetts Development Finance Authority today filed their formal plans for the company's new headquarters on Fort Point Channel that will include extensive renovations to two old candy buildings and construction of a new 12-story glass building.
In a filing with the BRA, GE says it hopes to begin roughly 15 months of renovation and construction this spring. In addition to the BRA, the state Department of Environmental Protection will also have to approve the project due to its location on former tidelands along Fort Point Channel. Read more.
By adamg - 7/20/16 - 1:22 pm
Around 1:10 p.m. Firefighters recovered the body shortly after 1:30 p.m. Police are now on scene to try to determine how the person died and wound up in the water.
By adamg - 6/2/16 - 10:05 am
Becky watched workers installing colored panels on the side of the Congress Street bridge yesterday: Read more.
By adamg - 5/26/16 - 1:43 pm
Proposed Northern Avenue Botanical Bridge.
A proposal to enclose the Northern Avenue Bridge and turn it into a year-round botanical garden was among the top entrants in a competition to help the city figure out what to do with the bridge after it's floated to East Boston and repaired. Read more.
By adamg - 3/24/16 - 12:25 pm
UPDATE: Original "World Refrigerator Headquarters" headline changed, because GE is selling off its consumer-appliances division.
GE announced today it's buying a couple of buildings and land on Necco Street from Proctor and Gamble for its new world headquarters. Read more.
By adamg - 3/19/16 - 10:19 am
First responders at work. Photo by Sean O'Rourke.
Updated with BFD info.
Around 8:40 a.m., in the middle of the channel, the Boston Fire Department reports.
It's near where two men were safely fished out of the water in December, near where a number of homeless people now camp under the Expressway.
By adamg - 1/22/16 - 3:56 pm
The bridge and downtown Boston in 1919. Photo by Leslie Jones. See larger.
The Globe reports Boston officials have decided to tear down the old Northern Avenue Bridge starting in March - although a spokeswoman for the mayor said today that "there will still be an opportunity to preserve the bridge, but it cannot stay where it is because of its current condition." Read more.
By adamg - 1/13/16 - 11:29 am
General Electric announced today it's moving its corporate headquarters to the South Boston waterfront from Connecticut. Read more.
By adamg - 12/23/15 - 11:19 am
First responders at work. Photo by Jonathan Berk.
No immediate word on just what they were doing in the tail end of Fort Point Channel shortly after 11 a.m., but Boston firefighters got them a ladder, they climbed out and now they're under the care of Boston EMS.
By adamg - 12/10/15 - 8:25 am
City and state officials joined with the Richard family to announce a parcel now owned by the MBTA next to the museum will be turned into a park honoring the memory of the Dorchester boy who only wanted peace.
By adamg - 12/7/15 - 4:41 pm
Ross Chanowski looked up and down while walking along Fort Point Channel this afternoon.
By adamg - 12/4/15 - 11:01 am
Police investigate remains of exploded suitcase. Photo by Jonathan Berk.
UPDATE: Arrest made.
Police are looking for a man they say left a large suitcase near a Homeland Security vehicle at the Coast Guard building on Atlantic Avenue around 9:50 a.m., then walked away in a hurry.
Police responding to the scene quickly shut Atlantic Avenue and Seaport Boulevard over the Evelyn Moakley Bridge as the bomb squad arrived. Eventually, an I-93 ramp was shut as well. Read more.
By adamg - 10/11/15 - 9:01 pm
Eileen Murphy gazed upon the woolly magnificence that is the Fort Point Channel sheep last night.
Jason Richardson eyed the sheep during the day.
By adamg - 7/5/15 - 12:57 pm
Eileen Murphy paints us a picture at the boat-rental place by the Barking Crab.
By adamg - 5/8/15 - 9:27 pm
A concerned citizen complains about this guy who seems to have set up housekeeping on the one public-access dock in Fort Point Channel:
Fort Point Harbor Walk squatter has returned. Scaring off visitors who dare to venture onto the dock.
By adamg - 4/6/15 - 10:30 pm
The lighting makes it impossible to read, but that covered over sign in Chris Devers's photo says "Stark Industries," so you have to wonder if Stark plans to divert all those razor blades for a new protective coating for his Iron Man suits.
Photo posted under this Creative Commons license.
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