Boston mayor considers 'slow ramp-up' for construction
Safety ground rules will allow construction to ramp back up.
Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh intends to speak with construction leaders in the next few days to discuss potentially restarting construction within the city, which Walsh halted in March in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Speaking via virtual meeting to the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, Walsh also said he plans to make general contractors and subcontractors sign affadavits pledging to institute safety precautions at construction sites before opening.
“We’re looking at tentative days to begin construction in a slow ramp up,” Walsh said. “That depends on the surge (in coronavirus patients at hospitals) and the curve.”
Walsh in mid-March became the first mayor of a large U.S. city to fully shutter construction. The decision halted 97 projects spanning more than 21 million square feet in Boston. Somerville Mayor Joe Curtatone and Cambridge City Manager Louis DePasquale followed soon thereafter.
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker has allowed construction to stay active on emergency and essential projects across the state, including residential and infrastructure construction.
Walsh said the call with contractors would happen in “the next couple of days.” The call would focus on a checklist of what it would take to ramp up construction work safely.
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