A sea of blue at West 1st and F. Photo by Kate Roberts.
State Police troopers chased a suspect in a Roxbury shooting last week and a possible South Shore incident tonight up Day Boulevard to Castle Island, then down East 1st Street, where the driver of the SUV he was in rammed a parked Boston Police cruiser in the area of O Street around 10:25 p.m. Read more.
Bird-infused rendering by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
The owner of numerous industrial facilities and warehouses in South Boston and a Toronto developer have filed plans for an eight-building development on parcels along Pappas Way and West 1st Street in South Boston that would include 205 residential units, life-sciences lab space, a supermarket and a rebuilt one-acre park along the Reserved Channel. Read more.
The owner of industrial buildings along West 1st Street and Pappas Way has teamed up with a Toronto developer on a proposal for an eight-acre, seven-building development that would include "a variety of commercial and employment-based opportunities" as well as some new housing - in a complex that would be nearly as large as the one now underway to replace the old Edison plant a few blocks away. Read more.
Rendering by RODE Architects.
The Broadway Company of the Back bay has proposed replacing the old blue buildings at 202 West 1st St. at C Street with a "vibrant commercial office, life sciences, research and development project that better serves the needs of the community and its expanding workforce at this industrial section of South Boston’s First Street corridor." Read more.
Crash scene. Photo by T.
At E and West 1st streets, around 5 p.m. The homicide unit and fatal-collision reconstruction team were called in due to the severity of the victim's injuries.
Nate Swain compiled this video of the demolition of a former RCN building on West 1st Street by the Haul Road in South Boston. It's coming down to make way for an eight-story office building aimed at "innovators."
The Harvard Gazette reports Harvard and MIT boffins are using the database of Google Street Views to show how cities' landscapes are changing. And South Boston's W. 1 Street is one of their examples.
A developer has proposed a 5-story condo building on what is now half of a parking lot at 377 W. 1 St. in South Boston.
Donald Clancy is proposing to use the roughly 8,000-square-foot lot for a building with nine condos - six with two bedrooms and three with three bedrooms - and 15 parking spaces in a first-floor garage. Some space on the first floor would be set aside for commercial use - likely a restaurant - according to his filing with the BRA. Read more.
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