One Ferry Project HAS RESTARTED CONSTRUCTION!

Amazing news, and we're the first to report once again!

After hardly any activity on the One Ferry Project site since 5 Ferry's completion in late 2022, we at The 01027 Minute are proud to announce that...

7 Ferry HAS OFFICIALLY STARTED CONSTRUCTION! This building was supposed to be completed in 2024, but it just started construction, as nighttime interior lights that weren't there before absolutely confirm that construction has begun on the interior. It has electricity now! The exterior still doesn't have work since construction JUST started, but after over 2 years of waiting (and me thinking they gave up on the ambitious project!), the next phase has finally begun, that being 7 Ferry, now slated for completion in 2026, 2 years behind schedule. The remaining buildings, 9 Ferry & 11 Ferry, are slated for completion in 2027 (9 Ferry) and 2028 (11 Ferry), though I believe 2028 for 9 Ferry and 2029-2030 for 11 Ferry are more plausible.

Those lights are from inside 7 Ferry, definitely not 5 Ferry, and they confirm that construction has indeed begun on 7 Ferry, the inside of it. The exterior still looks "abandoned", but likely not for much longer!

This project has changed a bit since 2023, for these reasons:

1. 15 Ferry is no longer part of the project, and 11 Ferry is going to be slightly different than originally planned, taking up the space that both 11 Ferry and 15 Ferry would've. Instead of being 3 separate buildings (9, 11, and 15), it has now been reduced to 2 buildings after 7 Ferry, being 9 Ferry at the southeast of the site across from the canal, and 11 Ferry taking up a massive portion just to the east of the dilapidated buildings that are just across from 7 Ferry. 11 Ferry will also be 5 stories high, the tallest building completed in Easthampton likely since the early 1900s. Pics will be down below as a comparison.

2. 7 Ferry has had a massive downgrade. This building, the main building of the project, was originally going to be mixed-use (with restaurants and micro retail space), but it now appears it will be 100% apartments, per the One Ferry Project site. Completion is now set for 2026, which is definitely possible, but it depends on how long work takes. It's a massive building, so I feel that a 2027 completion is more likely, but 2026 is definitely possible. Either way, it's at least 2 years behind schedule.

Former pic of the planned project: (via the Wayback Machine)

New plan (2024): *Everything to the west of 7 Ferry is already completed. Keep in mind that 7 Ferry was supposed to be completed and open now, so they're WAY behind! As you can see, it's a different configuration east of 7 Ferry! 9 Ferry is MINISCULE compared to before, and 11 Ferry will be a GIANT 5-story building!

More info: Per a July 2024 Daily Hampshire Gazette article about the last building (11 Ferry), the "most optimistic" scenario for the developers, Home City Incorporated, is that construction would start in about a year after the story was posted (so July 2025, 3 months from now) and that the building would be completed in 12 months from that timeframe, so July 2026. If this holds true, both 7 Ferry and 11 Ferry would complete around the same time, in the second half of 2026. Info for 9 Ferry is unclear, but considering how small it is, it could also potentially be done by late 2026 as well. The project has been done 1 building at a time since it started in 2018 (construction started August 2019, the project was born in 2018), but if they do multiple buildings at once for the last part of the project, completion within 2 years (2027) is a definite possibility, which, despite how delayed 7 Ferry is, would put the project 2 years AHEAD of schedule, since it was supposed to complete in 2029 under the original plan.

Here's pics of the site on April 8, 2025, taken by me:

7 Ferry shown directly ahead

The small white building next to Ferry Street will likely be demolished as it is also likely beyond saving. 7 Ferry is itself almost beyond saving as well, but construction started just in time.

Direct underground entrance to 7 Ferry. Also, the green "doors to nowhere" are from a now-demolished skybridge leading to another building that no longer exists, demolished around 20 years ago.

7 Ferry is nearly windowless at this point, with the balconies of 5 Ferry right next to it. Ever since 2022, the residents of 5 Ferry have had an abandoned building as their neighbor and view. Oops! Thankfully, that's changing now!

The inside of 7 Ferry as seen through the windows!

As 7 Ferry becomes alive again, so are the trees! Look at the buds!

Side view of 7 Ferry. The entire first floor is a walkway with a now-closed bridge that led to the back of the site, which I was at in September 2022 before they closed the bridge.

Closer look at the walkway. The entrance to the bridge is gated off at the left.

Around there in the walkway is where you would enter 7 Ferry.

This is the building just to the south of the "existing concrete structure", which will remain since it's in the site plans for the redevelopment. That building to the south of it will be demolished, obviously. That's located approximately where 15 Ferry was in the old plan, which in the new plan, is northwest of the top-left of 11 Ferry, which could be completed in 2026, though One Ferry Project says 2028 completion, but that's likely old data, since that's when the original 11 Ferry was to be completed, followed by 15 Ferry in 2029.

That section of that building (northeast of 7 Ferry) is basically nonexistent!

A closer look. Seriously, try to save it. Yeah, NO, it's going down. Absolutely no chance. Also, look at those walls to the left, they're hardly there! The entire thing is giving way by summer (2025), excavator or not!

I hope you enjoyed looking at this building, because pretty soon, it won't exist! Also, in that Gazette article, they explain how they want to start demo on the buildings before they get the lease to what will be 11 Ferry, so if that remains true, these buildings to the east of 7 Ferry (ALL of them) are all going down this summer, 2025.

That's the former entryway to that, building. Oops, I meant DEATH TRAP. Sorry. 💀☠️

That's that crumbled building looking towards Ferry Street, directly south. The BAD part of it is where 15 Ferry would've been, the middle part of it is where the old 11 Ferry design would've been, and the southern part of it is where the old 9 Ferry design would've been. The new plan makes more sense, though instead of keeping the same shape, it's all going down east of 7 Ferry (none of those are salvageable, OBVIOUSLY) and it will be a parking lot with a huge 5-story apartment block in the middle, that being 11 Ferry, with plans by the developers to complete in July 2026 at the absolute earliest.

Looking at 7 Ferry going down (middle of picture) and the disaster that is the OLD buildings to the left, with the canal split in the middle.

This concrete structure will remain (not sure what will go in there) and that building in front of it is the same one that I've showcased here that will go.

The old bridge, accessible until the end of 2022. You technically weren't supposed to go back there, but you could until they closed it off. Just after crossing that bridge out of 7 Ferry going east to the back of the site, to your immediate right is, that building. You could basically walk right in if you were OK with risking your existence/safety and if you were able to get the door open!

5 Ferry (opened late 2022) to the left, 7 Ferry to the right. All buildings except the white one will remain as part of 7 Ferry and are in the process of redevelopment.

That white building is also beyond saving, likely. It will be turned into greenery and another bridge to the rest of the site, what will be 9 Ferry and 11 Ferry.

Backside of 7 Ferry.

Entrance to 9 Ferry. Considering how small 9 Ferry is in the plans and how small this existing building is, that likely means that this building will be saved, unless they demolish it and start fresh with the same dimensions. Every other building east of 7 Ferry besides this one will be demolished. Hey, look, a wooden bridge. Want to explore?

*For legal reasons, this is a joke. As cool as urbexing is, it's dangerous and illegal without permission from the owners. If you do Urbex, do not give out locations AT ALL and go with someone else at your own risk, in case you fall through the floor or something like that. It's THAT dangerous, especially when it comes to factories abandoned in the 1900s! 😂

A look above the fence to the unsalvageable buildings that will be demolished to the left. Only the southernmost one, 9 Ferry, will remain.

Another look at the unsalvageable buildings. Notice that brown skybridge to nowhere? There used to be other buildings where all the bricks are, but they were demolished in 2012.

The "pile of bricks" was more abandoned factories up until 2012. Ever since those were demolished, nothing has been here. That is basically where 11 Ferry is going to stand slightly to the left, as this far right might be the right parking lot.

The far-right of the project site. There's more abandoned buildings at the back, but I'm not sure what will happen with those, likely demolition.

The lights weren't on prior to 6PM when I took pics and vids of the site. However, when it was JUST dusk enough at just past 7:30, the lights WERE on, confirming that construction has started on 7 Ferry!

One more thing: Today (4/8/2025) was CHILLY, below 40°F and wind chills below freezing, in the 20s°F! If the weather matched what was predicted, the wind chill was about 23°F when I filmed this. 30s°F AND wind, a BAD combination! I still went out into the harsh cold without a coat just so I could get these pics and vids and because I don't feel like wearing a winter coat after March, whether Mother Nature likes it or not! A little cold doesn't hurt you, until it does... 🥶❄️ 

P.S. 2025 is going to be a TWO SHOT year for The 01027 Minute, with construction on Sierra Vista Commons (93-97 Northampton St) about to start, and we first talked about THAT 2 years ago. But now, there's a fence on the site and a sign that says "building for you, Easthampton", put up by Greenfield Savings Bank, which will be a tenant on the site.

2025 is shaping up to be a BAD year for the world (politics...) but a GREAT year for Easthampton! Hopefully, Trump's tariffs don't get in the way, otherwise we might have another 2008/2020 situation on our hands... 😬