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South Boston power plant for sale, could be torn down for redevelopment

By adamg on Wed, 02/10/2016 - 6:36pm

The Globe reports the owner of the Summer Street power plant, which almost never generates power anymore, has put the property up for sale - with an eye towards maybe turning the space into residential and commercial space, as one does.

Although the mostly pink plant no longer pushes out the current, it is still in use as a power substation.

Ed. note: Could somebody please find a giant inflatable pig and float it up near the smokestacks before they come down?

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Comments

By Adeas on Wed, 02/10/2016 - 6:51pm.

Could be a cool development site. Would be nice to see something to encourage the state to run more serious mass transit to Southie than buses in street traffic.

By anon on Wed, 02/10/2016 - 7:35pm.

I don't know about now, but I worked across the way from that plant in the 90s and could see in the windows and on a couple of occasions there were women in various states of undress or sometime in suggestive clothing getting their pictures taken or being filmed.

By TommyJeff on Wed, 02/10/2016 - 8:38pm.

After ManRay closed.

By anon on Wed, 02/10/2016 - 9:16pm.

What did the women in the power plant have to do with ManRay?

By gradontripp on Thu, 02/11/2016 - 10:47am.

And, if it's ManRay, you can only assume it was females in various states of undress. ManRay was cool with transgender back when this place was at full capacity.

By dpalomares on Wed, 02/10/2016 - 7:36pm.

By Jered on Wed, 02/10/2016 - 7:44pm.

Most likely this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Floyd_pigs

By adamg on Wed, 02/10/2016 - 8:24pm.

Pink Floyd.

By anon on Wed, 02/10/2016 - 8:43pm.

Which one's Pink?

By bohemka on Wed, 02/10/2016 - 8:02pm.

Floyd, Pink

By dpalomares on Wed, 02/10/2016 - 8:08pm.

...because The Simpsons PR team released a large pig near a power station in Great Britain.

By bohemka on Wed, 02/10/2016 - 8:11pm.

I hadn't heard that. That was also a (very clever) reference to Pink Floyd.

By monkeynaut on Thu, 02/11/2016 - 11:20am.

Though Adam was thinking about Pink Floyd, episode 24 of the 7th season of the Simpsons is "Homerpalooza" in which Homer is part of a Lollapalooza-esque touring music festival. He accidentally sets off Peter Frampton's huge inflatable pig, comedy ensues.

EDIT: Forgot the line that Frampton says about having bought the pig at Pink Floyd's yard sale. So yeah, direct tie-in back to PF.

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By MattyC on Thu, 02/11/2016 - 11:28am.

Quoth the Homer:

Grand Funk Railroad paved the way for Jefferson airplane, which cleared the way for Jefferson starship. The stage was now set for the Alan Parsons project, which I believe was some sort of hovercraft.

By El Danimal on Wed, 02/10/2016 - 7:46pm.

NIMBYs will be out in droves for this one.

By Scumquistador on Wed, 02/10/2016 - 8:50pm.

but not condos/apartments?

am i misreading what you're saying?

By readingcomprehension on Thu, 02/11/2016 - 9:17am.

More traffic from condos/apts. Depending on height, probably some shadow complaints as well. It's all written in the NIMBYism playbook.

By El Danimal on Thu, 02/11/2016 - 9:41am.

your reading comprehension skills are impeccable.

People were up in arms because the city moved the bus route from East 4th to Broadway, a change that made total sense and should not have been controversial. You don't think people will have something to say about this potential development, which given the size of the lot will be very large? It doesn't matter what it currently is, only that it's changing, and whatever takes its place is going to be expensive, bring more people, and bring more cars.

I live down the street from here and will support any development that goes in because the site is underutilized, but I don't think a lot of people in the neighborhood are going to feel that way.

By bosguy22 on Thu, 02/11/2016 - 10:22am.

In South Boston get "up in arms" about any change. If you said you were going to ban snow, they'd get outraged about the lack of snowmen.

By El Danimal on Thu, 02/11/2016 - 10:48am.

Double post

By TommyJeff on Wed, 02/10/2016 - 8:19pm.

There is a beautiful brick & carved stone facade tucked away in that place with 'EDISON' emblazoned across the top.

By anon on Wed, 02/10/2016 - 8:49pm.

This is where we should put this affordable housing. Right in Flaherty's backyard!

By Yupster on Thu, 02/11/2016 - 8:41am.

Why? So the poor can live on land that was, for years, a wasteland? I remember the ash that used to blow from the old smokestack. Covered the neighborhood in soot. Lovely place for anybody to live. Especially the poor.

By anon on Thu, 02/11/2016 - 6:37am.

There's a techno club in Berlin called Tresor that's located inside a decommissioned power plant. Place is incredible.

By monkeynaut on Thu, 02/11/2016 - 1:17pm.

Truth, that's the new incarnation of Tresor. The original was in the storage vaults under an old department store. There's also Berghain, another great Berlin club in a power station. Techno club was also the first thing I thought of when I heard this was up for development. Sadly the demand for it just doesn't exist here, though it would be fantastic if it happened.

By MC Slim JB on Thu, 02/11/2016 - 1:17pm.

some very atmospheric exterior backdrops for a late scene in "Gone Baby Gone", the climactic shoot-out set (and actually shot) in Murphy's Law across the street, after it spills out into the street. (The chase scene then goes around a corner that doesn't exist there, to end up on some different location's rooftop, like dream logic.)

Knowing that it barely functions, I always suspected its redevelopment couldn't be far off. It's a great location.

By DPM on Thu, 02/11/2016 - 5:11pm.

Not a good sign for our regional energy production issues.