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Planned-community developer LStar Ventures will work with General Electric to convert a 500-acre former naval air station 12 miles south of Boston into Union Point: a “smart city” with driverless shuttle services, heated sidewalks and a resilient energy grid.
The companies have plans to embed smart technology into the city’s energy, water, lighting and transportation systems, said LStar CEO Kyle Corkum, speaking to The New York Times.
So far the community comprises roughly 1,200 occupied single-family homes, town houses and apartments, plus a nearly completed, $28 million sports complex. The developer intends to renovate an aircraft hangar for use as the centerpiece of a downtown district with shops, restaurants and public event spaces.
GE will use Union Point as a laboratory and showroom for its products and systems, including micro-grid technology, renewable-power generation and storage. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has aims to open an innovation center in the facility's old power plant.
The project's development will proceed over the next 15 to 20 years. Its first commercial tenant — Netherlands-based Prodrive Technologies — is set to break ground on a U.S. headquarters there this spring.
By Brannon Boswell
Executive Editor, Commerce + Communities Today