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Postal Service Unveils Development Plan for Fort Point Channel Site

BOSTON-The Postal Service details plans for its 21-acre site here in South Boston. The Service intends to sell this site as soon as it finds a new space, but developed the idea as part of the master plan for the Fort Point Channel area.

By Naomi Grossman | Updated on November 21, 2001

BOSTON-The Postal Service has revealed plans for the 21-acre site it owns in South Boston near A Street. The plan is part of a master plan for the Fort Point Channel area, which the city asked the major developers in the area to create.

“We asked the major property owners with vacant land in the area to come together and work as a team,” Linda Haar, the city’s director of planning and development, tells GlobeSt.com. “This is somewhat unprecedented for property owners but we knew it was the only way it could work.” James Travers, of CB Richard Ellis/Whittier Partners, which is advising the Postal Service, tells GlobeSt.com that the property owners in this district “realized that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The master plan will allow for the orderly development of the land.” For the city, notes Haar, the important piece of the plan was that the area should function as a neighborhood.

As part of the plan for the Postal Service’s property, 7.7 acres will remain open space and will connect to Beacon’s Midway Development’s open space and to Gillette’s open space. Another important aspect is the connection to Hull Road where much of the industry’s truck traffic occurs. “We don’t want to hinder industry,” notes Haar. The plan also includes a residential component that would be 40% of the space, or 1.5 million sf, according to Travers, with the remaining 2.2 million a mix of retail, office and cultural space.

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