Harborwalk

The CA/T Project added another mile to Boston's existing 43-mile Harborwalk on November 21, 2005 and has created approximately five acres of open space in the Fort Point Channel area for the public to enjoy. It is the perfect place for a morning run, a lunchtime meal or an evening stroll in the heart of America's Walking City. 

As a result of CA/T construction, the Fort Point Channel waterway has been made more safely accessible to pleasure boaters and small craft than ever before by the removal of derelict piers and other underwater hazards. Fort Point Channel has retained its historic legacy with the building of approximately 4,200 linear feet of new and reconstructed granite seawalls.   

More than 450,000 cubic yards of dirt was excavated from the area now occupied by Binford Park, creating a massive casting basin large enough to hold three ships the size of the Titanic. An engineering marvel, the casting basin was used to construct six tunnel sections that were eventually floated into Fort Point Channel and submerged into a trench dredged just feet above the MBTA's Red Line to extend 10 underground lanes of the Massachusetts Turnpike to Logan International Airport. 

The Harborwalk will now be part of the revitalization and development of the Fort Point Channel District. It will feature five interpretive exhibits which explain the significance of the area, including the history of its world-famous businesses including the Gillette Company, Boston Wharf Company, Domino Sugar, and the New England Confectionary Company, which made the famous Necco Wafer.   

The Harborwalk links open spaces at Cabot Cove, Vent Building 1, Binford Park, the Federal Reserve Bank and BECo Wharf.  Vent Building 1 Park will center around an art piece made from a portion of an historic railroad bridge that had existed near the site.  A water shuttle facility will be constructed at the BECo Wharf.  Three new Channel bridges offer pedestrian crossings at Broadway, Dorchester Avenue and the Dorchester Branch Railroad Bridge.  Further into South Boston, parks have been created at Wormwood Street and on the harbor at Vent Building 6. 

View a map of the Fort Point Channel Area Walkways and Open Spaces.