Boston – Engineering firm VHB announced it is currently underway on nine multi-residential and mixed-use projects in Boston.
The developments are all happening outside the downtown/Seaport/Back Bay trifecta. Representatives of VHB say they are instead located in underutilized and historically industrial stretches of South Boston, Allston, Dorchester, Charleston, and other neighborhoods beyond the city center, aiming to enhance community connectivity and local access to affordable and market-rate housing, retail, transit, and jobs, and that VHB’s land development, transportation, and environmental engineering professionals are bringing developers the critical services, understanding of local context and regulations, and know-how needed to advance these projects through complex permitting processes and design reviews.
Suffolk Downs, a 16 million sq. ft. redevelopment of the former Suffolk Downs racetrack, will create 10,000 housing units along with offices and hotels. VHB is providing permitting, resiliency, and transportation services.
Dorchester Bay City will remake the approximately 36-acre former Bayside Expo Center site and neighboring properties, creating 19.7 acres of public open space and 21 buildings. VHB is providing resiliency, site/civil engineering, and transportation services.
Allston Yards / Rendering courtesy of Elkus Manfredi Architects
Cambridge Crossing will reimagine a 43-acre neighborhood in East Cambridge with 4.5 million sq. ft. of mixed-use space. VHB is providing services for offsite improvements.
On the Dot will redevelop 21-plus acres of land along South Boston’s Dorchester Avenue corridor, creating 11 residential and commercial buildings. VHB is providing permitting, site engineering, and roadway design services.
The 425 Medford project will develop the 25.5-acre former Domino Sugar site for mixed use, reconnecting the public to 46 acres of Charlestown’s Mystic River waterfront and addressing flood resiliency. VHB is providing permitting and transportation services.
The 776 Summer project will transform the former Edison power plant in South Boston into 1.68 million sq. ft. of mixed-use space. VHB is providing transportation permitting, site/civil engineering, and environmental services.
Harvard Enterprise Research Campus
Allston Yards will create a 1.23 million sq. ft. mixed-use development offering 1,000 residences and a one-acre community green. VHB is providing roadway design, permitting, transportation, and site/civil engineering services.
Iron Works will recreate more than 1 million sq. ft. of a South Boston neighborhood with four mixed-use buildings. VHB is providing permitting, civil engineering, and survey services.
Harvard Enterprise Research Campus will help bring the University’s Allston innovation corridor vision to life with a nine-acre mixed-use development. VHB is providing transportation planning services.
