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Help to shape the future of the Fort Point Waterfront! People who live in, work in, and visit the Fort Point neighborhood will join forces with architects, landscape architects, and other designers to develop proposals for future waterfront designs along the Fort Point Channel. Teams of community members and designers will develop solutions for specific sites as well as ideas that may be applicable to waterfront areas throughout the neighborhood. The conceptual proposals will address the climate adaptation needs of the district and generate ideas for making the area more welcoming and inclusive. The process will give participants an opportunity to share their aspirations for the public waterfront in the future with ideas for specific sites and principles for defining what they want from future development.

For this evening event, Boston Harbor Now (in partnership with the Fort Point Neighborhood Association, the Boston Society for Architecture, the Boston Society of Landscape Architects, and the Stone Living Lab) will be presenting the designers and community members with background information about planning initiatives, climate projections, and other geographic context about the Channel before organizing groups into teams.

Follow-up office hours and final presentations will be held at other venues in the area over the following weeks. With more details to come.

Organizations interested in formally partnering on this process, should contact Alice Brown at [email protected]

Additional information:

The Fort Point Waterfront Community Design Program is designed to collect input from residents and other local stakeholders in partnership with design professionals to create visual models for the future of the neighborhood’s waterfront. With several years of planning for climate change and new development occurring in the neighborhood, this is an opportunity to create comprehensive strategies for addressing threats of flooding and exclusivity by creating design proposals that provide climate adaptation strategies alongside accessibility and inclusion in the open spaces and ground floor uses of the waterfront.

The desired outcomes of this project are

Community-generated and community-supported design criteria for future waterfront development.

Recommended inclusivity and resilience strategies for different types of waterfront: parks, new residential, historic residential, mixed use, commercial, and industrial development.

Suggestions for near term actions that existing property owners can take to improve their waterfront sites.

Bold design concepts that push the envelope for a reimagined Fort Point waterfront that honors the city’s history, and prepares for a more inclusive and resilient future.