"In its six decades operating off the industrial edge of Charlestown's New Rutherford Avenue, the giant Boston Sand & Gravel complex has never had a neighbor. Now, 705 apartments might go in on some empty parking lots next door. The industrial stalwart is pushing back, worried that its massive trucks and all those people could make for a bad mix."
"It's an uncomfortable tension between one of the last remaining vestiges of heavy industry that has made much of Boston what it is - both above ground and in the tunnels below - and the sort of large-scale housing the city needs if it's to keep growing. The conflict is playing out along much of this corridor between Sullivan Square and Bunker Hill Community College, where a number of new development proposals promise to transform an area that has long been left to industry."
Boston Sand & Gravel operates a large concrete, sand, and gravel complex beneath Interstate 93 on New Rutherford Avenue and has had no neighboring properties for six decades. A proposal would add 705 apartments on adjacent city-owned parking lots, creating potential conflicts between heavy truck traffic and new residents. At peak times up to 890 trucks a day use the access road between the complex and New Rutherford, hauling materials across Greater Boston. The corridor between Sullivan Square and Bunker Hill Community College is seeing multiple development proposals that could transform an industrial area into large-scale housing, prompting calls for coexistence solutions.
Read at Boston.com
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