Harbor Way Pedestrian Promenade Features Interactive Walking Museum

Skanska and members of the Seaport community recently gathered for a public block party event to celebrate the grand opening of Harbor Way, a 70-foot wide pedestrian promenade with 20,000 square feet of tree-lined open space and retail between Skanska’s 101 Seaport and 121 Seaport office developments, located in Boston, Massachusetts. To commemorate Skanska’s #SeaportShipwreck discovery during the construction of 121 Seaport and the rich industrial history of the neighborhood, Harbor Way features an interactive walking museum that includes a digital library of historical photos, maps and information, as well as a phone app with augmented reality functionality.

The event also celebrated Skanska’s rounding off of Boston’s most sustainable block with the completion of 121 Seaport. 121 Seaport is a 17-story, 400,000-square-foot, Class-A, LEED Platinum office building. The office tower, designed by CBT, sits above two stories totaling 50,000 square feet of world-class retail that will come online in 2019.

At the event, guests explored Harbor Way, while enjoying samples from surrounding local retailers.

Harbor Way’s interactive walking museum highlights milestones from past centuries through the 2016 discovery of the #SeaportShipwreck and explores the following themes:

• How this area of Boston was once a tidal flat, and how the ship discovered in May 2016 came to rest a few blocks inland
• How city planners filled land over the former tidal flat in the 19th century, burying the ship
• The Seaport’s industrial past and evolution, and how railroads and warehouses once dominated the neighborhood
• The artifacts archeologists found within the ship
• Facts about the ship’s last voyage, believed to be from Rockland Maine to the South Boston Flats