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Waterfront Activists Anticipate Changes to Russia Wharf Plan

BOSTON-Russia Wharf, a 95,000-sf parcel located here on the waterfront in the Fort Point Channel area, is being met with concern by local waterfront activist groups, who protest the height of the buildings.

By Naomi Grossman | Updated on February 01, 2002

BOSTON-Equity Office Properties Trust’s plan to develop Russia Wharf, a 95,000-sf parcel located here on the waterfront in the Fort Point Channel area, is being met with concern by local waterfront activist groups largely because of the proposed height of some of the buildings.

In a letter to the Boston Redevelopment Authority Equity outlined its plans for the site and notified the city agency of its intention to submit the proposal for large project review. The property abuts the city’s financial district and, as stated in the letter, is one of the few remaining sites available to accommodate new office space there. Equity’s proposal involves building a 24-story structure on top of and around three interconnected historic seven-story buildings that occupy the site. The buildings would be developed as office space and a 300-room hotel and would include 1.1 million sf of space, including 660,000 sf of space in the tower that would reach 400 feet.

“We’re concerned,” Stephanie Pollack, a senior attorney at the Conservation Law Foundation, tells GlobeSt.com, referring to Equity’s plan. Pollack notes that the company will have two hurdles to overcome before the project can get off the ground: the historic preservation issue and the height of the tower. The height restriction for buildings on Fort Point Channel now is 100 feet. Equity did not return calls for comment.

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