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By adamg - 9/30/16 - 2:05 pm

WBZ reports OSHA has cited Stavis Seafood on Channel Street for 20 safety violations - and proposed a $174,000 fine - for the March ammonia leak that killed Brian Caron.

By adamg - 8/9/16 - 10:51 am
Proposed hotel at 660 Summer St. in South Boston

Architect's rendering of a dark and stormy day on the waterfront.

A developer this week filed formal plans for a 15-story, 411-room hotel at 660 Summer St. in the Flynn Marine Industrial Park.

The Marine Wharf hotel would be split between a Hampton Inn and Homewood Suites by Hilton, under the proposal submitted by developers Eamon O’Marah and John Matteson of Harbinger Development of Wellesley. The BRA had tentatively designated the company to build a hotel at the site last fall. Read more.

By adamg - 4/1/16 - 7:44 am

Friends and co-workers of Brian Caron, killed by an ammonia leak at Stavis Seafood in the Boston Marine Industrial Park last week, will remember him tonight with a vigil in South Boston.

The remembrance, organized by the Boston Seafood Workers Alliance, begins at 6:30 p.m. at District Hall, 75 Northern Ave., followed by a candlelight procession down Summer Street to the Stavis Seafood plant.

By adamg - 3/23/16 - 6:48 pm
Firefighters in hazmat suits at marine industrial park ammonia spill

Hazmat team going in. Photo by BFD.

A worker at a Stavis Seafood facility at 7 Channel St. died from ammonia exposure tonight, Boston Fire officials report.

Firefighters responded shortly before 6 p.m. and tried to go into the Stavis Seafood cold-storage facility in the Boston Marine Industrial Park but were driven back by the ammonia, John Walsh, BFD chief of operations said. Firefighters in special hazmat suits were able to enter the building around 6:48 p.m. Read more.

By adamg - 2/3/16 - 2:19 pm

The Boston City Council today approved a request from at-large Councilor Michael Flaherty for a hearing to try to get Massport, the BRA and the city Economic Development and Industrial Corp. on the same page when it comes to re-use of the city-owned land on Boston Harbor.

Flaherty made his request after news broked that Massport has put land out to bid in the Boston Marine Industrial Park in South Boston and that one bid calls for relocating businesses from Widett Circle, including meatpacking plants, even though the industrial park is supposed to be limited to businesses having some relation to the seas. Read more.

By adamg - 1/31/16 - 4:08 pm
Tide Street snow farm last year and this year

Top photo by Conventures, 2/10/15.

This afternoon, Eileen Murphy visited the infamous Tide Street snow farm, which didn't completely melt until mid-July, and as you can see, it's looking a bit different these days.

On the plus side, she did see a horse carriage ambling by: Read more.

By adamg - 10/21/15 - 11:04 pm
Blue Hills Bank Pavilion under repair

Earlier today, Matt the roving UHub photographer noticed the Blue Hills Bank Pavilion was in the process of being torn down and wondered why. Turns out it's not going away forever, just that the tent fabric is being replaced in time for performances to start up again in the spring.

By adamg - 9/30/15 - 5:57 pm
Inside 25 Fid Kennedy Ave.

Inside Building 16.

J.C. Cannistraro of Watertown today proposed leasing and renovating a large and long vacant building in the Boston Marine Industrial Park - as an assembly plant for construction components. Read more.

By adamg - 9/19/15 - 11:17 am
Proposed seaport hotel in Boston

The Economic Development and Industrial Corporation this week selected a company to build a 405-room hotel in the Boston Marine Industrial Park.

The proposal, by Harbinger Development, calls for the hotel on a lot off Summer Street that is one of two in the industrial park not required to be used for marine or industrial use.

Harbinger is talking to Hilton Worldwide to operate the hotel, EDIC says.

By adamg - 7/16/15 - 9:28 am
No more snow

Conventures, which had a ringside seat for the birth and death of the Snow Pile, shows us the view this morning: Crews clearing out the last of the debris that, unlike the snow, refused to melt.

By adamg - 7/13/15 - 2:01 pm

Boston Snow Farm melt, March 27 - July 6, 2015

Kevin McGurn and Choicestream created this time-lapse video.

H/t Jared.

By adamg - 7/4/15 - 10:23 pm
South Boston snow pile on July Fourth

Eileen Murphy visited the Tide Street snow pile as the sun set on July Fourth and found it's still there.

By adamg - 6/25/15 - 5:09 pm

The mayor's office today announced a contest to guess when the Tide Street snow pile will finally disappear for good: Read more.

By adamg - 6/25/15 - 9:59 am
South Boston snow pile

Last night, Eileen Murphy visited the Tide Street snow pile, which has now been in Boston long enough to apply for a residential parking permit.

Earlier:
Dawn breaks over the South Boston snow pile.

By adamg - 6/8/15 - 7:38 am
Dawn at the Tide Street snow pile in South Boston

Steve awoke early this morning to capture that most magical moment when the sun rises over the snow pile on Tide Street.

Copyright Steve. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

By adamg - 6/5/15 - 6:49 pm
Firefighters spraying the South Boston snow pile with water

Conventures shows us that the South Boston snow pile got a surprise visit today from Boston firefighters, who set up hoses to dump water on it - whether to reduce its stench or shrink its size, we don't know. But what if, you know, that only made it stronger - and angrier?

By adamg - 5/27/15 - 4:39 pm
Snow in South Boston on May 27

The South Boston snow pile made it through Memorial Day and as Conventures shows us, it's still there today. Will it be there on Flag Day? Dare we suggest July Fourth?

Back on February 3.
A little late-season skiing in South Boston.

By adamg - 4/15/15 - 5:43 pm

Boston Snow Farm Skiing

Vlad Tarasov reports on his adventure in the Boston Marine Industrial Park earlier this month:

I skied the Boston snow farm in April and it was disgusting!

H/t Greg Cook.

By adamg - 2/10/15 - 10:23 am
Snow farm on the South Boston waterfront

Several days of running rented snow melters nearly nonstop at the city snow farm in the Marine Industrial Park have helped chop down the snow mountains to size, Conventures reports.

Across the harbor, roving UHub photographer Chris Dagdigian watched a couple of the beasts at work outside Terminal C (the white streaks are reflections of lights in the terminal, not incoming laser beams):

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