One twenty five high street environmental impact assessment and report. (draft and final)

By HMM Associates.

Subjects: Downtown, Historic preservation, Fort Hill Square, Boston (Mass.), Financial District, Boston (Mass.), Soils, Development Projects, Environmental impact statements, Environmental, Boston High Street, Shades and shadows, Noise, Air quality, Transportation, Downtown, Boston (Mass.), No. 125

Description: ...these volumes concern a proposed mixed use development project in downtown Boston's financial district at Fort Hill Square consisting of office/retail buildings, a new city of Boston fire station, an ambulance facility, a large publicly accessible landscaped atrium and a parking garage; the "Draft and Final Environmental Impact Assessment" contains a description of the project and area (existing conditions, project history, urban design and architectural alternatives, etc.) and includes analysis of the following issues: transportation and access plan, wind, shadow, daylight, excavation/soil conditions, air quality, noise, utility systems, energy issues, historic preservation and construction; mitigation measures are also presented; a separate "Executive Summary" accompanies this draft assessment; the "Draft Environmental Impact Report" includes some of the same information but only analyzes air quality and utility systems; the "Final Environmental Impact Report" covers the same areas as the draft report; also on this number is a "Final Environmental Impact Assessment Executive Summary" which is chiefly a brief description of the project and its alternatives together with a brief description of its various environmental impacts; copies of these items were in the BRA collection...