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South Boston power plant for sale, could be torn down for redevelopment
By adamg on Wed, 02/10/2016 - 6:36pm
The Globe reports the owner of the Summer Street power plant, which almost never generates power anymore, has put the property up for sale - with an eye towards maybe turning the space into residential and commercial space, as one does.
Although the mostly pink plant no longer pushes out the current, it is still in use as a power substation.
Ed. note: Could somebody please find a giant inflatable pig and float it up near the smokestacks before they come down?
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Pretty cool
Could be a cool development site. Would be nice to see something to encourage the state to run more serious mass transit to Southie than buses in street traffic.
Something weird goes on in there...
I don't know about now, but I worked across the way from that plant in the 90s and could see in the windows and on a couple of occasions there were women in various states of undress or sometime in suggestive clothing getting their pictures taken or being filmed.
That slowed down a bit...
After ManRay closed.
ManRay in Cambridge?
What did the women in the power plant have to do with ManRay?
Industrial photo ops, likely
And, if it's ManRay, you can only assume it was females in various states of undress. ManRay was cool with transgender back when this place was at full capacity.
Is the Pig Refence related to this?!?!
Not sure if trolling, or just unaware
Most likely this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Floyd_pigs
Yep, I was thinking of
Pink Floyd.
Oh and by the way
Which one's Pink?
No
Floyd, Pink
I asked....
...because The Simpsons PR team released a large pig near a power station in Great Britain.
Ah, right
I hadn't heard that. That was also a (very clever) reference to Pink Floyd.
You're only 50% incorrect
Though Adam was thinking about Pink Floyd, episode 24 of the 7th season of the Simpsons is "Homerpalooza" in which Homer is part of a Lollapalooza-esque touring music festival. He accidentally sets off Peter Frampton's huge inflatable pig, comedy ensues.
EDIT: Forgot the line that Frampton says about having bought the pig at Pink Floyd's yard sale. So yeah, direct tie-in back to PF.
Quoth the Homer:Grand Funk
Quoth the Homer:
Good luck
NIMBYs will be out in droves for this one.
so they'd be ok with a power plant
but not condos/apartments?
am i misreading what you're saying?
yes
More traffic from condos/apts. Depending on height, probably some shadow complaints as well. It's all written in the NIMBYism playbook.
No
your reading comprehension skills are impeccable.
People were up in arms because the city moved the bus route from East 4th to Broadway, a change that made total sense and should not have been controversial. You don't think people will have something to say about this potential development, which given the size of the lot will be very large? It doesn't matter what it currently is, only that it's changing, and whatever takes its place is going to be expensive, bring more people, and bring more cars.
I live down the street from here and will support any development that goes in because the site is underutilized, but I don't think a lot of people in the neighborhood are going to feel that way.
People
In South Boston get "up in arms" about any change. If you said you were going to ban snow, they'd get outraged about the lack of snowmen.
Double post
Double post
Hopefully, they don't tear ALL of it down.
There is a beautiful brick & carved stone facade tucked away in that place with 'EDISON' emblazoned across the top.
This is where we should put
This is where we should put this affordable housing. Right in Flaherty's backyard!
Why? So the poor can live on
Why? So the poor can live on land that was, for years, a wasteland? I remember the ash that used to blow from the old smokestack. Covered the neighborhood in soot. Lovely place for anybody to live. Especially the poor.
Tresor
There's a techno club in Berlin called Tresor that's located inside a decommissioned power plant. Place is incredible.
Truth, that's the new
Truth, that's the new incarnation of Tresor. The original was in the storage vaults under an old department store. There's also Berghain, another great Berlin club in a power station. Techno club was also the first thing I thought of when I heard this was up for development. Sadly the demand for it just doesn't exist here, though it would be fantastic if it happened.
Always loved that building. It provided
some very atmospheric exterior backdrops for a late scene in "Gone Baby Gone", the climactic shoot-out set (and actually shot) in Murphy's Law across the street, after it spills out into the street. (The chase scene then goes around a corner that doesn't exist there, to end up on some different location's rooftop, like dream logic.)
Knowing that it barely functions, I always suspected its redevelopment couldn't be far off. It's a great location.
Not a good sign for our
Not a good sign for our regional energy production issues.