About The Neighborhood & Harbor This Week

July 15: Blood Drive outside of 268 Summer St. from 8am to 2pm.  Blood donations are important during the summer when regular donors are on vacation.  The need for a blood for surgeries, cancer treatment, etc., does not take a vacation! Make your appointment.

July 15: Conservation Commission Public Hearing at 6pm. Agenda includes the Boston Children's Museum (underground stormwater holding tank and associated outfall, deployable flood barriers, and waterproof cladding & other resiliency improvements)

July 16: Office Hours: Updates to Dimensional Definitions and Code Structure from 4pm to 6pm. This amendment to the Zoning Code focuses on updating the zoning definitions for dimensional requirements, such as building height, yards, building lot coverage, and more. Also on July 23^rd and July 30^th, see Boston Planning calendar.

July 17:  Join Mayor Wu’s South Boston Liaison, Lydia Polaski, for a chat at Elephantine Bakery  (332 Congress St) from10am to 11am.

July 17: Water Transportation Fair hosted by Seaport TMA, A Better City TMA, and Lower Mystic TMA at Christopher Columbus Park/Long Wharf from 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. (rain date: July 24). Celebrate the best way to get around Boston! Discover all the different water transportation options the Harbor offers and how you can use it to commute, visit local restaurants, visit the Harbor Islands, get to the airport, and more. Avoid street traffic. Enjoy ocean breezes. 

Special guests include the MBTA, Massport, Seaport Ferry, Boston Harbor City Cruises, Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization, Bluebikes, Wada Hoppah (electric ferry), Everett Active Transportation Advisory Committee, The American City Coalition, and more! 

July 18: Fish & Farm Market every Saturday from 9am to 1pm at the Boston Fish Pier. 

July 20: US Army Corps of Engineers Boston Coastal Storm Risk Management draft report will be released on Army Corps (USACE) Study Partnership | Boston.gov.

Grow Our Neighborhoods. Not P&G Profits. Act Now. Write Now.

Grow Our Neighborhoods. Not P&G Profits.
P&G is trying to reshape our neighborhoods and not in a good way. Their current proposal for rezoning the P&G Gillette site prioritizes oversized towers and dense commercial spaces, with little regard for the people who actually live in Fort Point or our neighbors in St. Vincent's and West Broadway.  

Act now. Write Now. Check out bit.ly/FPNARALLYSTARTER (case sensitive). The comment deadline is Thursday, July 31st! Pro Tip: Add your personal thoughts, your experiences, and why this neighborhood matters to you. Personalized messages make the biggest impact. Please be sure to include your address.

Here’s what we’re fighting for (We need your voices): 

✅ Height limits that respect the existing fabric and conditions of the adjacent neighborhoods, keeping in mind the historic Fort Point Channel Landmark District.  Proposed building heights should be reduced, with maximum heights capped at 180 feet, and buildings along abutting neighborhood streets limited to no more than 100 feet on A Street and 150 feet on West Second Street and Dorchester Ave.

✅ A real mix of uses with a minimum of 40% housing-including onsite affordable home ownership and rental housing, neighborhood-serving retail spaces, 10% for City-managed civic spaces like a library and a community center, and a destination cultural facility or cultural spaces including a boathouse. 

✅ A pedestrian-first street design for A Street and W. 2nd and a street network that ensures safe access to Broadway Station, surrounding transit, and provides a real solution for access to I-90 and I-93, along with a pedestrian bridge over the Channel. 

✅ Flood protection and resiliency infrastructure that safeguards our homes from sea level rise and heavy rain events before P&G exits their 31 acre site.

✅ A meaningful 6+ acre City-owned public waterfront park (privately created and maintained), with the existing Harborwalk and South Bay Harbor trail - all fully protected from sea level rise. 

If you would like to send your email directly, here are the email addresses for our Mayor, Chief of Planning, Congressman Lynch, Senator Collins, Rep. Biele, District 2 City Councilor Ed Flynn, Sarah Peck, City's Planning Department project manager and yours truly, FPNA: michelle.wu@boston.gov, kairos.shen@boston.gov, MA08SLima@mail.house.gov, Nick.Collins@masenate.gov, david.biele@mahouse.gov, ed.flynn@boston.gov, sarah.peck@boston.gov, fpnaboston@gmail.com

Thank you!

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Last Chance To Ask Questions & Voice Your Opinion On Gillette's 31 Acres

updated 07/22/25 with meeting presentation and video links. 

The Boston Planning Department is holding the final Public Virtual Meeting tonight on the P&G Gillette Redevelopment's proposed rezoning plan of 31 acres, 20 buildings and over 5 million square feet on a contaminated site  

This meeting focuses on the existing neighborhood context, open space, the waterfront and climate resiliency.

P&G Gillette Master (zoning plan)

Monday, July 21, 2025

6pm to 8pm

View Presentation. View Video.

View last week's Impact Advisory Group meeting presentation on the same topics. Presentations are posted a couple of hours before the meeting. 

Comment deadline is Thursday, July 31st. 

Let's build our future together. #PeopleFirstPlanning 

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Gillette To File Letter Of Intent To Transform Fort Point Campus

updated 08/21/24 with link to Letter of Intent and press release. 

A Message From Gillette To The Neighborhood

We will be filing a Letter of Intent today, August 21, 2024,with the Boston Planning Department to begin the formal process for our South Boston Site transformation.   

This filing will be consistent with what we have previously shared regarding our vision for reimagining the site.  We see a true generational opportunity to transform our industrial campus to bring incredible benefits for the community and city.  We are particularly excited about the project’s potential to improve community access through/to the site, bring much needed housing, create one of the largest inclusive waterfront parks ever built on private land in the city and add a new level of resiliency alongside the Channel to protect the surrounding communities.  We are also very enthusiastic about the potential to boost economic development in this unique, transit accessible part of the city, bringing new industry, jobs, tax revenue, linkage funds and more.   

 

We are looking forward to sharing more details on our project vision with you and the community as we embark on the next phase of this process.   We plan to host several community meetings/workshops ahead. The dates of these are as follows: 

• Site Tour and Workshop #1 - Thursday, September 19th
• Workshop #2 – Tuesday, October 1st
• Workshop #3 – Thursday, October 24th

Later today, we will also launch a public website (www.GilletteBostonUpdate.com) to provide ongoing updates on the project along with the calendar of events ahead.   We hope this will make it as easy as possible for anyone who is interested to participate.   

 

As we announced last Fall, we will remain an important part of this city with our Headquarters and Technical Innovation Center staying in South Boston.  We are grateful to continue to benefit from this vibrant city and the strong innovation ecosystem all around us and we remain eager to realize this incredible opportunity to leave a legacy for our Grooming home and community.  

 

We appreciate your continued support as we continue through this journey.   As always, please don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions to gillettecommunity.im@pg.com. 

Rachel Forbes Elwell

Communications & Community Affairs Manager

P&G Gillette

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