One Developer’s Strategies for Successful Placemaking

In 2005, when Boston developer The Fallon Company bought the site that would, 15 years later, become Fan Pier, the $115 million waterfront property was nothing more than empty parking lots surrounded by run-down warehouses. Other developers had been drawing up plans for the site since the 1980s, though nothing had ever come to fruition. But The Fallon Company was optimistic.