the distillery redevelopment - Boston Redevelopment Authority

1.0 INTRODUCTION
The Distillery Redevelopment | East Second Street | South Boston
Second Street Associates owns a property in South Boston, the site of a former
rum distillery. The Distillery site is a 1.74 acre site bounded by East First Street,
East Second Street, H Street and Dorchester Street.
There are three main buildings on the site, totaling 105,667 gross square feet
providing a total of 30 live-work units and 42 work-only units for artists and small
manufacturers:
• the former distillery, (consisting of the Distillery Building on East Second
Street and the Warehouse on H Street) was built in the period 1862 - 1874,
providing 30 live-work and 38 work-only spaces.
• a former distillery company bottling plant built in 1966 currently being
used as a laydown area and warehouse by Fishbach and Moore, an
electrical contractor.
• a one-story masonry building, a former cooper shop built in the 1930’s,
currently with three commercial tenancies.
The aim of the owner is to redevelop the property, preserving the older,
architecturally distinguished, Distillery Building while demolishing the other
buildings on site. These will be replaced with 124,996 gross square feet of
residential space, artists’ work and live-work units, workshops, offices, retail
stores, and 123 parking spaces. The new building complex will be designed and
constructed to reduce fossil fuel in the construction materials used, the method of
construction and day to day operation, achieving a high benchmark in terms of
life cycle energy costs. The building will also seek to minimize non-energy
related negative environmental impacts and to promote and sustain a healthy
living environment.
1.0 Executive Summary | Introduction 1-4