Boston Harbor Now honors the MBTA, Alexandria Real Estate, and National Development with 2025 Onboard Awards

Boston, MA Boston Harbor Now is recognizing the MBTA and the team of Alexandria Real Estate Equities and National Development with its 2025 Onboard Awards. 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 expanded water transportation services.

Alexandria Real Estate Equities and National Development for their redevelopment of 5 & 15 Necco St. 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 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 of the 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 and in East Boston and throughout the city, the MBTA’s a driving force for greater coastal resiliency, and its recent successes making transit more reliable and sustainable are crucial to our climate goals.”

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.