MASSPORT: Ports: Maritime Other Properties

South Boston Properties

Boston Fish Pier

The historic Boston Fish Pier, which was built in 1912, is really three buildings: the East and West Buildings which are connected by huge archways; and the Exchange Building.

Linked to a proud past, the Boston Fish Pier now serves contemporary needs. Maintaining a distinct historical ambiance, today's tenants share the same classical structure that housed the Yankee fisherman of the last century.

The Fish Pier is located in the heart of the South Boston waterfront on Northern Avenue and is the oldest working fish pier in the country. Massport assumed ownership of the Fish Pier in 1972 and remains committed to ensuring its availability to support the commercial fishing industry in Boston Harbor.

Features: These a spectacular location in the heart of Boston's commercial waterfront, renovated three-story structures contain approximately 40,000 square feet of modern office space on the third floors of each building. The East and West Buildings offer tenants private entrance lobbies, elevators that exclusively serve third floor office tenants. The buildings also house HACCP-approved fish processing facilities on the first floors with adjoining office and storage space for those facilities on the second floors.

International Cargo Port

International Cargo Port is located at 88 Black Falcon Avenue in South Boston adjacent to the Black Falcon Cruise Terminal. The facility houses various companies and organizations involved in international trade and commerce, including the U.S. Customs Document Analysis Unit. International Cargo Port Boston is accessible by truck, rail and ship and is located in Foreign Trade Zone #27.

Features: 200,000 square feet of modern intermodal cargo warehouse space and 200,000 square feet of Class A office space.

Fargo Street Terminal

Located just south of Summer Street in South Boston, the Fargo Street Terminal consists of approximately 15 acres of flat paved land. The site has traditionally been used for various maritime based industrial and industrial purposes including vehicle storage, as well as in support of activities at Conley Terminal and the Black Falcon Cruise Terminal.

Massport Marine Terminal / North Jetty

The MMT is located on the waterfront in the Marine Industrial Park site of the former South Boston Army Base, next to the Black Falcon Cruise Terminal. and was formerly occupied by U.S. Navy finger piers in the mid 1980s. The site offers 800 feet of berthing space at 40 foot at MLW.

Long range plans for the MMT call for a mixture of maritime industrial and related uses such as seafood processing, bulk cargo operations and waterborne cargo warehouses supported by the necessary road and utility infrastructure, waterfront marine infrastructure and potentially direct rail access in the future. Because of MMTs proximity to deep draft navigation channels (via the 40-foot deep North Jetty berth), designated truck routes including the South Boston bypass road, the interstate highway system and potential rail connections, as well as its distance from residential neighborhoods, the site is well suited for these uses.

Massport dedicated approximately 10 acres of MMT for the development of modern seafood processing facilities or related facilities that support the fishing industry. These facilities will complement seafood-processing operations at the Massport-owned Fish Pier along Northern Avenue as well as the New Boston Seafood Center, developed recently by the City of Boston on an adjacent site. Massport is pursuing the development of state-of-the-art seafood processing facilities in several phases. The Harbor Seafood Center, a modern 65,000 square foot multi-tenant seafood processing facility opened in 2001. Legal Seafoods 75,000 square foot processing facility and headquarters opened in 2003.

Most of the remaining 30 acres have been used for construction staging by the Central Artery/Tunnel (CA/T) Project. As the CA/T project nears completion, all of the 30 acres will become available for redevelopment between 2003 and 2007.