The Impact Advisory Group (IAG) for the Gillette Redevelopment met with representatives from parent company, Procter & Gamble, and Boston Planning Department (BPD) for the second in a series of meetings about the razor company’s iconic headquarters’ upcoming reinvention on May 27.
The plan for the 31-acre campus is to create a mixed-use, climate-resilient waterfront community consisting of more than 1,800 residential units,15 acres of public realm improvements, including cultural and community gathering spaces, and the creation of over 10,000 permanent jobs.
The IAG had a few key concerns, chief among them, housing. Members want the required number of affordable units to be built on-site, in South Boston, rather than paid out to the Inclusionary Development Policy Fund.
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