Editorial: Boston, here’s a chance to make the Northern Avenue Bridge a real destination

Walsh and the coalition should think more boldly, and build a linear green space limited to pedestrians and bicyclists, one that flourishes with trees, grass, benches, public art, and even a revenue-producing cafe.

→Source: The Boston Globe
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Maritime research lab planned for Seaport District waterfront

Danvers-based real estate development firm Kavanagh Advisory Group intends to develop a four-story maritime research building on Wharf 8/Pier 7 in Boston’s Seaport District, an open-water site located between the Legal Harborside seafood restaurant and Blue Hills Bank Pavilion.

→Source: Boston Business Journal
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The Northern Avenue Bridge is being replaced, and the city is debating just who will be allowed to use it

With an $80 million to $100 million redevelopment of the decrepit span getting underway, the Walsh administration is mulling who’ll get to use it in the future: bikes, buses—or cars, too.

→Source: The Boston Globe
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How can we encourage more socially inclusive public art and audiences?

We are headed in the right direction towards this initiative by sustaining an arts and culture community as diverse as our city.

→Source: Boston Harbor Now
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Euclid City Council takes historic vote to launch innovative lakefront trail

Euclid City Council on Monday voted to build an innovative and nationally significant lakefront trail made possible by the city’s agreement to pay for erosion control on private lakefront properties in exchange for easements allowing public access.

→Source: The Plain Dealer
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Boston faces a daunting future of rising seas

Boston may soon go through another era of reshaping the city, as it did in the 19th century—but this time for different reasons.

→Source: Public Radio International (PRI) "Living on Earth"
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Fear not, East Boston: Parks mean you won’t end up another Seaport

Some of the city’s most expansive waterfront parks are planned for the Eastie side of the harbor. It means that Eastie has a shot at remaining a waterfront for all, not one for only those who can afford it.

→Source: The Boston Globe
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This map will show you every publicly accessible space on Boston’s waterfront

You might not know it, but you have access to some of the biggest waterfront views in the state.

→Source: Boston 25 News
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Flood Resiliency Zoning Overlay District and Resiliency Design Guidelines RFP

This project will function as a critical step in implementing the City of Boston’s 2016 Climate Ready Boston 30vulnerability assessment and resiliency plan and more recent technical analysis of coastal resiliency strategies for East Boston, Charlestown, and South Boston.

→Source: Boston Planning & Development Agency
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Building community beware: Risks rising along with the tides

Even without current comprehensive regulation, there are strong reasons for industry professionals to look to the future design needs both to add long-term value and to avoid liability from increasingly obvious risks.

→Source: New England Real Estate Journal
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