Once called "The Lost Last Half Mile of the Charles" because of its industrial landscape, North Point now includes luxury housing, waterfront parks, an array of bridges including the Zakim and a pedestrian bridge, numerous ramps, a skate board park, train station, Boston Sand and Gravel, and the Charles River Dam with its walkway across the locks.
"Boston Sand and Gravel is a supplier of ready-to-pour concrete, concrete blocks, sand, and crushed stone, with operations and subsidiaries around eastern Massachusetts and New Hampshire in the United States."