Situated on Dorchester’s Columbia Point Peninsula, the Dorchester Bay City project is a catalyst for community transformation. This redevelopment effort creates a six-million-square-foot hub comprising nearly 2,000 new residential apartments and four million square feet of lab/office space. Another 180,000 square feet will be devoted retail/restaurant space. Extensive parks and plazas will be integrated into the surrounding public spaces as part of a larger 20-acre public realm and open space plan.
In addition to providing civil engineering, transportation planning, and resiliency services, VHB prepared the resiliency adaptation analysis and served as lead engineer for a nature-based vegetated living levee to protect the project from sea level rise and storm surge.
VHB’s analysis for this transit-oriented development is exploring transit service and roadway infrastructure upgrades to support multimodal users. By remaking three largely car-centric sites into a pedestrian- and bike-friendly area with an extensive new complete street roadway system, the project will help improve circulation and create connections to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s (MBTA) JFK/UMass station and the surrounding Dorchester and South Boston neighborhoods.
