North End neighbors are upset over waterfront redevelopement
Residents of Boston’s North End are gearing up for another fight over waterfront development. This time, the project is on Lewis Wharf, according to The Boston Globe.
JW Capital Partners developers want to build a 55-foot-high, 277-room luxury hotel on Lewis Wharf on Atlantic Avenue. But some North End neighbors are requesting developers to either cut back or stop the building of the hotel altogether.
To make the point, they’ve hired a public relations firm to coordinate their campaign, held public meetings, and collected 700 signatures supporting their cause, according to the Globe.
“We just feel like it’s out of context for the neighborhood,’’ Jennifer Crampton, an active member in the group Save Our North End Waterfront who also lives across the wharf, told the Globe. “It’s really a residential neighborhood. We want to keep it that way, rather than a congested commercial zone.’’
But Will Adams, a partner at JW Capital, told the Globe their plans would not wall off the waterfront. “It’s just a spectacular redevelopment of a piece of the waterfront that has not been built on for a long time.’’
This isn’t the first time neighborhood activists got together to fight a proposed development on the water. Over on Long Wharf, they won a seven-year fight when a judge decided the Boston Redevelopment Authority wouldn’t be allowed to build a restaurant there, keeping the area open to the public.
Read the full story at the Globe.
Vintage photos of the North End:
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