{"id":1004136929,"date":"2016-02-11T09:17:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T17:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004136929"},"modified":"2020-04-13T01:45:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T09:45:47","slug":"state-city-veolia-team-up-for-strategic-boston-redevelopment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/state-city-veolia-team-up-for-strategic-boston-redevelopment\/","title":{"rendered":"State, City, Veolia Team Up for Strategic Boston Redevelopment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Bogdan Odagescu, Associate Editor<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1004136945\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/02\/Charlie-Baker-MassGovernor.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004136945\" data-attachment-id=\"1004136945\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/state-city-veolia-team-up-for-strategic-boston-redevelopment\/charlie-baker-massgovernor\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/02\/Charlie-Baker-MassGovernor.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1024,576\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"The 185 Kneeland St. parcel and plans for redevelopment presented by Mass. Gov. Charlie Baker\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;The 185 Kneeland St. parcel and plans for redevelopment presented by Mass. Gov. Charlie Baker&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/02\/Charlie-Baker-MassGovernor.jpg?w=1024\" class=\"wp-image-1004136945 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/02\/Charlie-Baker-MassGovernor.jpg\" alt=\"The 185 Kneeland St. parcel and plans for redevelopment presented by Mass. Gov. Charlie Baker\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/02\/Charlie-Baker-MassGovernor.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/02\/Charlie-Baker-MassGovernor.jpg?resize=300,169 300w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/02\/Charlie-Baker-MassGovernor.jpg?resize=768,432 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004136945\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 185 Kneeland St. parcel and plans for redevelopment, presented by Mass. Gov. Charlie Baker<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Boston<\/strong>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/portal\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Office of the Massachusetts Governor<\/a>\u00a0announced a joint state and city partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.veolianorthamerica.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Veolia North America<\/a>. The agreement will kick off the redevelopment of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.massdot.state.ma.us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Massachusetts Department of Transportation<\/a>\u2019s (MassDOT) District 6 Headquarters and the adjacent Veolia steam plant, announced\u00a0Mass. Governor Charlie Baker, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofboston.gov\/mayor\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Mayor Martin Walsh<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.veolianorthamerica.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Veolia<\/a> representatives.<\/p>\n<p>The development is part of the administration\u2019s \u201cOpen for Business\u201d Real Estate Asset Leveraging (REAL) Strategy, which broke ground last October. The project identifies state-owned properties that are unused or have greater potential, and highlights them for public-private redevelopment partnerships. The REAL strategy, according to the Governor\u2019s website, is looking to leverage market-rate and affordable housing, to reduce government costs, and to increase state revenue while creating jobs and benefiting local communities. Seven such partnerships are already under agreement at the time of publication.<\/p>\n<p>The 5.5-acre parcel, edged by the Leather District, Chinatown, and South Station, sits downtown at 185 Kneeland St. Offering a potential of up to two million square feet of redevelopment, the property is currently scheduled for the first public input session. MassDOT\u2019s District 6 Headquarters are planned for either temporary or permanent relocation, while a smaller version of Veolia\u2019s facility will be built as part of the redevelopment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis location is ideal for transit-oriented redevelopment and we look forward to the community process which will help determine how the property will be used in the future. (\u2026) We know the site can be put to better uses which will enhance the vitality of the surrounding neighborhood and spur economic growth in the adjacent business district while generating own-source revenue that MassDOT can reinvest in our transportation system,\u201d said Stephanie Pollack, MassDOT secretary &amp; CEO, in prepared remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Veolia is a France-based transnational company with over 200,000 employees in 50 countries, specializing in water, waste, and energy management solutions with a sustainability edge. About 5 percent of Veolia employees work in North America.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image via Twitter, courtesy of Charlie Baker, @MassGovernor<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the City of Boston, and energy company Veolia join forces in major redevelopment project. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":740,"featured_media":1004136945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,21743,21782,21752,21742,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004136929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boston","category-deals","category-development","category-mixed-use","category-latest","category-northeast"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>State, City, Veolia Team Up for Strategic Boston Redevelopment - Commercial Property Executive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/state-city-veolia-team-up-for-strategic-boston-redevelopment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"State, City, Veolia Team Up for Strategic Boston Redevelopment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the City of Boston, and energy company Veolia join forces in major redevelopment project.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/state-city-veolia-team-up-for-strategic-boston-redevelopment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Commercial Property Executive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CPExecutive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-02-11T17:17:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-04-13T09:45:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/02\/Charlie-Baker-MassGovernor.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"576\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Bogdan Odagescu\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cpexecutive\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@cpexecutive\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/state-city-veolia-team-up-for-strategic-boston-redevelopment\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/state-city-veolia-team-up-for-strategic-boston-redevelopment\/\",\"name\":\"State, City, Veolia Team Up for Strategic Boston Redevelopment - Commercial Property Executive\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/state-city-veolia-team-up-for-strategic-boston-redevelopment\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/state-city-veolia-team-up-for-strategic-boston-redevelopment\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/02\/Charlie-Baker-MassGovernor.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-02-11T17:17:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-04-13T09:45:47+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/b496539dc21c086e1deff9b417453162\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/state-city-veolia-team-up-for-strategic-boston-redevelopment\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/state-city-veolia-team-up-for-strategic-boston-redevelopment\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/state-city-veolia-team-up-for-strategic-boston-redevelopment\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/02\/Charlie-Baker-MassGovernor.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/02\/Charlie-Baker-MassGovernor.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":576,\"caption\":\"The 185 Kneeland St. parcel and plans for redevelopment presented by Mass. 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