News | May 8th 2014

CBT Hosts ULI Boston “Living with Water: The Urban Implications”

On May 8, CBT hosted ULI Boston’s “Living with Water: The Urban Implications” program, a half-day design charrette that brought together teams of local experts in real estate and land use including architects, engineers, developers and financers to identify key preparedness strategies to address the impacts of climate change and sea level rise in the Greater Boston area.

Teams focused their study on four unique sites — Back Bay, The Innovation District, Revere and Alewife — to develop a set of best practices which the real estate community and public sector can adopt to improve preparedness and response to the effects of climate change and rising seas. At the end of the day, all teams reconvened to share their findings and solutions which ultimately will be compiled into a comprehensive report for release this September.