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SJC Slows Development of $2B Project

BOSTON-The SJC orders the developers of a 5.5-million-sf mixed-use project in Cambridge to seek a license under Chapter 91, slowing the development.

By Beverly Ford | Updated on February 13, 2007

BOSTON-In a ruling that could have ramifications for several Bay State waterfront developments, the state’s highest court has ordered the developers of the 48-acre North Point mixed-use project in East Cambridge to seek a license under Chapter 91, which governs development in tidelands. The ruling, which could delay construction and prompt legislative hearings on the $2-billion project, found that the state Department of Environmental Protection exceeded its authority when it granted the developers an exemption from the waterways statute.

The 5.5-million-sf office, residential and retail project, on an underutilized rail and industrial site near the Charles River, is being developed by Pan Am Systems Inc. of New Hampshire. Boston’s Jones Lang LaSalle office is serving as the development manager on the project. Officials with the developer declined to comment when contacted by Globe St.com and an attorney for the project did not return calls in time. A DEP spokesman tells GlobeSt.com that the department would review the decision. “It has been remanded to us and we’ll be trying to address it appropriately as we do the reviews,” the spokesman says.

Vivien Li, executive director of the Boston Harbor Association, tells GlobeSt.com that the ruling could have “tremendous ramifications” for developers along the state’s shoreline, even if construction, like the North Point project, does not abut wetlands.

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