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Relocation of South Station Mail Annex Uncertain

BOSTON-The US Postal Service's plan to relocate its processing center here in South Station to South Boston is in jeopardy because of a freeze on spending. The move would free up nearly 20 acres on the South Boston waterfront.

By Naomi Grossman | Updated on April 18, 2001

BOSTON-The plan to move the mail annex here in South Station to South Boston is in jeopardy because of financial concerns at the US Postal Service. The plan would open up nearly 20 acres along the Fort Point Channel area of the waterfront and if the annex does not move it could greatly impact the future of that area’s development.

In March. the Postal Service declared a freeze on all real estate projects that were not yet committed or had started construction. Eight hundred projects were frozen, 30 of them in the state. “Officially we can’t go ahead on it,” Robert Cannon, public affairs manager for the Eastern and Central Massachusetts division of the Service, tells GlobeSt.com. “We never reached any of the official stages.” But Cannon adds that the plan is still a “live” one. “Everybody who has been involved in the planning is still working to relocate to South Boston,” he notes.

According to Cannon, the South Station building is too large and out of date. Its 1.2 million sf of space is 400,000 sf more than it needs and its four floors make it difficult to accommodate modern postal procedures. “These days you need a two-floor operation,” he says. But if the Service wants to move, those interested in developing the South Boston waterfront want it even more. The building sits on 15 acres of potentially prime real estate and, with a move, millions of square feet of development would be opened up.

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