Selections celebrate T’s work on investment in water transportation, and developers’ comprehensive resilient and accessible design.
Boston Harbor Now is recognizing the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) and the team of Alexandria Real Estate Equities and National Development with its 2025 Onboard Awards, the advocacy group’s annual celebration of exemplary leadership and vision in creating a Boston Harbor for all.
Boston Harbor Now’s Onboard Awards recognize organizations and people whose innovation and achievement advances the organization’s vision of a Boston Harbor that is vibrant, resilient, and inclusive. This year’s awards recognize:
- The MBTA for its leadership in advancing public access and climate-ready infrastructure along the waterfront, particularly through its commitment to and investments in expanding water transportation services.
- Alexandria Real Estate Equities and National Development for their redevelopment of 5 & 15 Necco Street and the Lilly Seaport Innovation Center in the Fort Point Channel section of the Seaport Innovation District. These buildings incorporate key elements of Boston Harbor Now’s Harborwalk 2.0 vision for resilience and accessibility, including improved pedestrian access, facilities of public accommodation, and resilient design that can be augmented over time to address rising sea levels and storm surge.
Boston Harbor Now President and CEO Kathy Abbott said: “Alexandria and National Development have created an exemplary resilient waterfront design that improves pedestrian connections to Fort Point Channel open space. Their connection to the water and provision of water and electric infrastructure to support on-site public programming can add more vitality to the channel’s watersheet and that section of the Harborwalk.”
“The MBTA, for its part, has been doing a tremendous job of adding more water transportation options we want to see: the new ferry to Lynn, improved and faster service to Quincy and Winthrop, and four new vessels for its fleet in the last two years,” Abbott added. “At Aquarium Station, in East Boston and throughout the city, the MBTA’s a driving force for building a more resilient region through out transportation system.
The awards will be presented at a ceremony at the Boston Harbor Hotel on Wednesday, December 17 with hundreds of waterfront stakeholders in attendance. More information about sponsorships for the event, which helped Boston Harbor Now connect over 44,000 residents to the Harbor this year, may be found here.
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