Mr. Pachios, 28, is a director of sales and operations for Waterfront NY, a commercial real estate investment and development firm in Manhattan.
But the Port of Boston, which since 1996 increased the value of the cargo it handles by 30percentt, hopes to acquire more waterfront space for support operations like warehouses.
Last month, prosecutors said they had recordings showing that he was not only lucid but was continuing to run the Genovese crime family's waterfront racketeering and extortion operations from federal prison in Texas.
But everything depends on co-operation, from waterfront to Madrid.
Police sources have indicated that an operation in Waterfront Gait, a mile from Mikaeel's home, was not connected with the investigation into the boy's disappearance.
Deutsche Bank is planning to build a backup operation at a waterfront complex owned by Mack-Cali Realty in Jersey City.
As one of the few remaining commercial structures in operation on the waterfront, 360 Furman often seemed a curiosity to people ambling about on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade a few blocks away.
And in recent years, Merrill Lynch, Paine Webber, Goldman Sachs, U.S. Trust, Cigna and others have moved some operations to the New Jersey waterfront as rents soared in Manhattan.
The trail led to the waterfront, a traditional area of Mafia operations, where prosecutors said the Gambino and Genovese families were trying to control the International Longshoremen's Association.
The Port Authority also agreed to New York's request that it provide $5.6 million for economic development initiatives on the Brooklyn waterfront and subsidies for the barge operations used by American Stevedoring.
