Built to be resilient against future sea level rise, the mixed-use development on East Boston’s waterfront transformed an underutilized area into an active and publicly accessible extension of its surrounding neighborhood. Reclaiming a former shipbuilding site, the project includes four buildings with 478 residential units on upper floors and a mix of residential, community, dining and recreational uses at the ground level.
“The success of this project was finding a way to take a post-industrial site, clean it up and deliver a solution that was true to Lendlease values of sustainability and resilience,” says Nick Iselin, Lendlease Boston general manager of development. “We made it a 100-year project, taking risks of sea level rise out of the equation.”