Good Stuff: Get Your Geese in a Row

This may go down as one of KMDG’s all-time best construction site visit photos. While checking in on the progress at 2 Harbor, Andrew, an assistant superintendent with Suffolk Construction spotted a family of 19 geese enjoying a casual walk across the entrance. We appreciate their willingness to stay in formation while Andrew snapped this pic. 

KMDG is working with Handel Architects on this new mixed use Life-Science center in Boston’s Seaport located at the seam between the emerging residential and mixed-use South Boston Waterfront area and the industrial Raymond L. Flynn Marine Park (RLFMP). The site design of the 4-acre parcel draws from the area’s light-industrial and seaport history in establishing a new vision for landscape open space in the seaport. Site challenges include its location over the top of the Ted Williams Tunnel, which precludes building construction over 2 floors, leading to the development of this portion of the site entirely as a landscape. As the gateway linking the Seaport and RLFMP, landscape design is at the forefront of obtaining permitting approval from a multi-agency jurisdiction, including Boston Planning & Design Authority, Massachusetts Port Authority, and Massachusetts Department of Transportation.