After three decades lying vacant, a 14-acre former industrial site along the harbor in East Boston is not only home to a vibrant mixed-use community, it’s setting new standards for resilient and sustainable development.
HALL Arts is a 467,455-sq-ft project featuring a 28-story residential tower and 10-story boutique hotel. The project is pursuing LEED Gold and is the first residential development in the state to register for the WELL Building Standard.
This destination resort on 152 acres comprises 1.5 million sq ft of space, including a waterpark that totals 223,000 sq ft, an 11-story hotel, a family-entertainment center and—under separate contract—a 200,000-sq-ft convention center with a 41,000-sq-ft ballroom.
To deliver the AIRA Residences project in Kuala Lumpur, builders had to overcome the differing challenges of transforming an existing 17-story, 64-unit residential structure built more than 40 years ago into a near replica of the sparkling, brand-new 18-story “twin” they were constructing next to it.
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.