Turning a Dead Coal Plant Into a Hip Waterfront Experience

  • As industries struggle, Hilco scoops up old plants to develop
  • ‘The market is embracing older spaces with a new fervor’

An artist’s rendering of Boston’s L Street Power Station after it is redeveloped.

Source: Hilco Redevelopment Partners

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The L Street Power Station provided Boston with electricity for more than a century, burning coal and belching fumes into the sky. Mostly mothballed in 2007, it may soon be reborn in a much different form.

Think posh waterfront stores, apartments, offices, a food hall, space for events and a shore-front promenade.