Boston officials have approved plans for a $70 million seafood processing plant in the city’s marine industrial park.
American Seafood Exchange has been designated to build a 350,000-square-foot facility on city-owned property. It would employ up to 1,500 people and include cold storage and packing operations designed to get seafood to consumers in the shortest time possible.
“This is going to revolutionize the fishing industry in Boston,’’ Mayor Thomas M. Menino said yesterday. “It will reestablish the city as a fully operational seafood port for the 21st century.’’
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