![]() The prime location, next to South Station and Interstates 90 and 93, is a big selling point. State transportation officials have been trying to redevelop these sites for several years, without much success. Duane Jackson - are expected to participate in National’s broader project. Their partners - who include the life-sciences landlord Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Asian Community Development Corp., and local developer L. Their bid - one of six for the site - proposed 93 apartments and 330,000 square feet of research space, though Kavoogian said it also mentioned the grand vision for the assemblage of properties along Kneeland Street. The Newton developer led a team that in April submitted a proposal to MassDOT for a much smaller project for Parcel 25. ![]() The latest plan to electrify the Kendall Square steam network provides a way to sharply reduce greenhouse gas emissions caused by running the HVAC systems in downtown towers - and possibly an incentive for Baker administration officials to favor National’s vision. But that plant would have been natural gas-fired, too. National and Vicinity had initially been in talks to build a new steam plant, on a third nearby MassDOT site surrounded by highway ramps known as Parcel 27A, to replace the Kneeland plant. For that to happen, National needs the 1.3-acre parcel known as Parcel 25, which is being pursued by five other bidders, a city-owned pumphouse for fire hydrants, the steam plant, and an adjacent site owned by MassDOT and home to its District 6 offices known as Parcel 26. National’s vision for the 5.5 acres includes about 400 apartments, with about 160 affordable units, and about 1 million square feet of lab or office space, and a redone Reggie Wong Memorial Park, said National’s managing partner, Brian Kavoogian. Tearing down Vicinity’s Kneeland Street plant would make room for a large mixed-use development on the southern edge of downtown. ![]() ![]() A similar conversion effort was unveiled in Vancouver, British Columbia, in March, though the plans in Boston were set in motion before that announcement. This would be the first electricity conversion of a major urban steam system in the United States, said DiCroce, whose Boston company owns steam networks in a more than a dozen cities east of the Mississippi River. It is also used as a set for all sorts of movies and TV shows like Doctor Who - its easy to see why.“Think of us as the ‘Easy Button’ to electrify 65 million square feet in Boston,” DiCroce said. It's all being done by a bunch of nice old chaps - steam engine enthusiasts - in their spare time, and it looks like a pretty serious job. The engines were decommissioned in 1980, and since then the building has been converted to a museum and one of the engines has been restored, while the other is in the process of being restored. At 19 meters and 6 stories tall, weighing over 800 tonnes, they are similar to the engines used on the Titanic, and pumped 72 million liters of water a day, supplying north London with drinking water taken from the Thames. Built between 19, one of the engines, The Sir William Prescott, has been restored to running order and is the largest operational triple expansion steam engine in the world. These are the Kempton Park Steam Engines in London.
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