DOT WATERFRONT PROPOSAL REVISED
Condos, restaurant and hotel for Port Norfolk
Four new buildings with housing, a small hotel, restaurant and boathouse would be constructed on a waterfront section of Dorchester’s Port Norfolk peninsula under revised project plans submitted for Boston Planning & Development Agency review.
South Boston-based City Point Capital wants to demolish the MarineMax Russo Boston buildings on Ericsson Street to build 150 condos, a 25-room hotel, a 4,000-square-foot restaurant, 185 parking spaces and a boat storage facility for 75 vessels.
The Port Norfolk neighborhood is a 114-acre peninsula across the Neponset River from Quincy. City Point’s Neponset Wharf development would sit on a 3.6-acre site on the northern edge of the peninsula, along the river and Pine Neck Creek.
City Point plans renovations of the existing 75-slip marina with reconfigured docks and piers, and a Shore Shack refreshment stand with public restrooms. Its plans also call for two acres of landscaped outdoor space, with a dog park, tidal garden, game court, public fishing pier, Harborwalk, kayak launch with storage and a marina support building selling items including bait, tackle, ice and fuel.
“The new residential units, retail and hotel uses complement the water-dependent facilities by adding vitality and activity to this prominent location where the Neponset River meets Boston Harbor,” City Point’s project and environmental notification forms state.
“The project will support a decade-long effort to revitalize and enhance the waterfront along Dorchester’s southern and eastern waterways, and rehabilitate the shoreline conditions.”
The developer also is considering building a new pedestrian bridge across Pine Neck Creek to connect the project site and Tenean Beach.
Boston-based RODE Architects is City Point’s architect for the development. City Point hopes to start an 18-month construction schedule in the fall of 2018, with substantial completion of the project targeted for spring 2020.
The project is expected to generate about 1,440 new vehicle trips in and out of the completed development daily, over and above existing marina trips.
City Point said potential traffic impacts will be identified in a forthcoming detailed traffic analysis as part of its draft environmental impact report for the proposed development.