The 5.5-million-sf office, residential and retail project, on anunderutilized rail and industrial site near the Charles River, isbeing developed by Pan Am Systems Inc. of New Hampshire. Boston'sJones Lang LaSalle office is serving as the development manager onthe project. Officials with the developer declined to comment whencontacted by Globe St.com and an attorney for the project did notreturn calls in time. A DEP spokesman tells GlobeSt.com that thedepartment would review the decision. "It has been remanded to usand we'll be trying to address it appropriately as we do thereviews," the spokesman says.

Vivien Li, executive director of the Boston Harbor Association,tells GlobeSt.com that the ruling could have "tremendousramifications" for developers along the state's shoreline, even ifconstruction, like the North Point project, does not abutwetlands.

"I think we're going to look much more carefully at otherdevelopments along waterfront, particularly along the South Bostonwaterfront," says Li. "For [developers] who thought they were notcovered under the regulations because they were land-locked, thiscan have tremendous ramifications."