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BRA approves unique chain hotel for Charlestown Navy Yard
By adamg on Thu, 03/12/2015 - 6:23pm
Architect's rendering.
The BRA today approved a developer's plan to turn a long empty Navy Yard building once used to make ship chains into a 230-room extended-stay hotel.
Under his proposal, developer Tom Kavanagh will keep many of the Chain Forge building's unique industrial components in the hotel lobby for public viewing.
Kavanagh's roughly $90-million project will include about $10 million worth of removal of PCB- and dioxin-contaminated building material. The buildings that make up the current structure have gone unused since the Navy shut them in the 1970s.
City officials and local residents spoke in favor of turning the current eyesore at First Avenue and 13th Street into something attractive that would also provide jobs.
The proposal also includes a contract with a valet service to provide off-site parking for guests.
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Good idea
Then again, anything that puts this place back into action is a good idea.
With the ferry, it will be lovely.
Sounds inviting!
With all those PCB and dioxin lying around, it WILL be an extended stay ...
Charlestown
Honest questions since I don't get over to Charlestown all that often.
Is gentrification over now? is it pretty much all yuppies? is there even any land left to build on?
There are still plenty of
There are still plenty of charlestown folk, but they have a friendly relationship with people moving in. I think it's hit a tipping point (let's say when whole foods opened), and real estate is still ridiculous around here, but I wouldn't say it's a negative definition of gentrification. The townies do a decent job respecting the growth of the neighborhood without losing its identity.
All in the opinion of a yuppie with townie roots, so YMMV
Never will be complete gentrification...
With the huge public housing project and lots of subsidized housing, there are still plenty of people in Charlestown that would not be called "yuppies." That said, the difference from the 70's/80's is amazing. Street after street are lined with houses that have been rehabbed and turned into condos. Demand from developers for the dwindling numbers of the old two and three families that are still rentals is extremely high and they are very aggressive in trying to buy them.
Over?
The Navy Yard always has been and always will be for the monied. Can't even call them yuppies, more like older folks with money to live on the water. The Yuppie set is more over toward old City Square.
Yes,
I never really thought of the Navy Yard as part of Charlestown.
Back in the day
Townies welcomed yuppies by breaking their car windows and stealing the radio etc. inside.
I think today the Navy Yard is still popular with flight attendants and people working in the financial district, mainly due to the commuter ferry service.