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New South Boston life-sciences building would let locals peer in at researchers at work
By adamg on Tue, 04/18/2023 - 10:04am
Bird-enriched view from across Summer and East 1st, rendered by Elkus Manfredi.
Plans for a proposed life-sciences building off Summer and East 1st street in South Boston show large first-floor picture windows so passersby can gaze in and feel some of the miracle of science happening right in their neighborhood.
The three-story, 97,000-square-foot building, proposed by Related Beal and the Shaughnessy Family would stretch along Summer Street between East 1st and Elkins streets. It would replace a warehouse.
In a recent filing with the BPDA, Related Beal details the decision to put lab space on the first floor behind large windows:
The lobby is flanked to the north by the proposed incubator lab space, which is designed to accelerate and support smaller life science startup companies by providing flexible lab space that is scalable to the needs of the tenant. Smaller companies will have the ability to share common support spaces while also occupying their own contained research and lab space. Locating this key space on the ground floor will highlight the building use and provide a window into the life science profession, sparking the interest of the surrounding community and inspiring the next generation of researchers.
Locals could stop and watch actual sciencing:
The building would also have ground-floor retail space.
Related Beal says its plans also include widening the current narrow, decrepit sidewalks along Summer and East 1st streets and adding a five-foot-wide "raised cycle track" along Summer.
An underground garage would have 48 spaces.
Given the bus stop located directly adjacent along Summer Street, the location facilitates convenient and accessible travel by public transportation. Bus routes serving the site run to the South Boston Waterfront to the north and connect to the rest of South Boston with transfers to the MBTA Red Line at Andrew Station. The Project is also strategically positioned along the Summer Street corridor connecting the South Boston Waterfront and South Boston, which is undergoing planning improvements for bus rapid transit lanes and separated bike facilities.
The developer says the new building should bring 300 new jobs to the neighborhood.
It hopes to begin roughly 20 months of construction in early 2024.
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All new development and
All new development and embarrassing failure of dependable public transportation.
still no housing.
I’d rather see affordable housing.
So you would rather see
So you would rather see subsidized housing instead of good paying jobs that would allow people to afford the housing?
And like other developments around here
The occupants/employees,who will all drive to work, will end up parking in the neighborhood surrounding this building.
A lot of lab folks are grad
A lot of lab folks are grad students and live in the city so in theory they should be able to use transit, however since the MBTA is currently estimating about 7 hours to get from Dorchester to South Station, there's less and less incentive not to splurge on a car. At a certain point the hours wasted commuting are more valuable than the cash saved.
This is on the truck route
The only ones looking in the windows will be the truck drivers while they’re waiting for the red light.
No neighborhood here
This is across from the Edison plant and next to King Terminal. No houses near here.
Not yet
Have you heard what's happening at the Edison plant?
It's kind of a big deal.
They should chat
With researchers at UMass Boston who got shoved into labs with floor to ceiling windows in the Integrated Science Center. Most of them had to find ways to block the windows to make the labs useable...