employment tod: the other e in etod by alden s. raine, phd
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Employment TOD
in the Metro Core
Rail~Volution 2015
Alden S. Raine, PhD
AECOM
Dallas
October 27, 2015
Why are We Talking About ETOD?
• The job commute is getting worse, with social equity implications:
The Growing Distance Between People and Jobs in Metropolitan
America, Brookings Institution, March 2015
• The policy of preserving “employment land”—common to many older
cities—competes with traditional TOD for land and for transit.
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• The TOD community is outgrowing the
cookie-cutter: TOD is more than mixed-
use development with [high-end]
residential and retail.
ETOD in the Core: Three Models
1. Major job centers as anchors of mixed-use transit villages
2. The urban jobs campus and the last mile—a core issue as well as a peripheral issue
3. Employment lands in the regional core—coexisting or competing with mixed-use
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1. Jobs as a TOD Anchor
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Partners’ HealthCare
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Iconic TOD, Iconic Employer
Assembly Row
• P3 infill station opens up 65-acre TOD two
miles from downtown, led by Federal Realty
Investment Trust
• Full program: 2,100 housing units; 1 million sf
retail; hotel; 1.75 million sf office, R&D.
• Big Phase 1: 453 units; cinema; outlets.
Partners Health Care
• Region’s #1 employer: 64,000 in region
• Need: consolidate scattered administrative staff
• Two choices—Orange Line stations in the core
• Chose Assembly Row: two buildings, 700,000
sf under construction for 4,500 workers
• Front door literally at east headhouse
Boston School Headquarters
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Anchoring a Core CBD
• Dudley Station: the historic CBD of Roxbury. Pre-
World War II, the #2 commercial center in
Greater Boston
• The heart of the Square: Ferdinand’s, an iconic
five-floor furniture store vacant since 1979
• The Southwest Corridor project—a community
victory—relocated Orange Line in 1987
• Still a transit hub: terminus of the BRT Silver
Line; also served by a dozen regular bus routes
• A three-decade revitalization priority for the
City—some success, but lacking an anchor
• The answer: Boston School HQ—a $120 million
public adaptive reuse of Ferdinand’s
• 500 employees—mostly City residents;160,000 sf
office space with ground-floor retail
Compare: Lindbergh Center
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BellSouth (AT&T) Towers Anchoring MARTA’s
Phase I Lindbergh City Center TOD
Compare: Transbay District
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6.4 million sf of new office space on
parcels closest to Transit Center
2. The Last Mile
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Longwood Medical Area
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An Employment Engine
• 213 acres, 18.9 million sf of building space
• Three Harvard teaching hospitals; three
major medical research institutions
• Harvard’s Medical, Dental, and Public Health
Schools; Mass. College of Pharmacy
• Six colleges, two high schools, other cultural
and civic institutions
• Employees: 46,000 (20 years ago: 25,000)
• Of those 46,000 employees:
– 1/3 (15,000+) live in the City of Boston
– half of those (7500+) live in five inner-
city neighborhoods
Longwood Medical Area
The MASCO Shuttle
• Non-profit serves hospitals
and med schools.
• Ten fixed shuttle routes
connect to Green, Orange,
Red Lines; Commuter Rail,
Harvard/MIT, Garages
• Costs built into MASCO
member dues, parking rates
• 12,500 daily trips; 4.5 million
annual trips
• In addition: Partners’ Health
Care has its own shuttle.
• All institutions deeply
subsidize MBTA passes.
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Compare: University Circle
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Two institutional shuttle systems connect
hospitals to Red Line, HealthLine
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Compare: University City
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“Superloop” BRT connects medical and employment centers;
will act as circulator for Mid-Coast LRT stations
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3. Employment Lands
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The Other South Boston Waterfront
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Logan
Airport
Convention
Center
Industrial
Container
Terminal
Cruise Port
Marine
Industrial
Park
D Street
Ted
Williams
Tunnel
South
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Mixed
Use TOD
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East of D Street
• Half of the 1,000-acre
waterfront legally reserved for
maritime and industrial use
• Massport’s container, cruise,
and seafood terminals
• City’s Boston Marine Industrial
Park
• Silver Line and two regular bus
routes serve the park
• Key TOD-vs-ETOD issues:
• Land regulation
• Transportation for
workers and trucks
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The Other South Boston Waterfront
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Land Regulation
• BRA updating Marine Industrial Park Master
Plan: maritime industrial versus general
industrial versus commercial.
• Is a cruise port hotel OK? How much office
and R&D? New home for wholesale food
businesses?
Transportation
• Adjacent mixed-use waterfront has
exploded—20 million sf of new growth.
• Silver Line and street network rushing
toward capacity.
• High-end residential coexists with trucks—a
core state-Massport-City principle.
Compare: East Cleveland
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Legacy industrial corridor in Collingwood and East Cleveland---
transit extension alternatives address ETOD
Compare: Riverview Corridor
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St. Paul’s legacy corridor—viable industrial lands side-by-side with
residential and commercial; TOD includes ETOD
