Suffolk 83
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And all they did to deserve it was build the two tallest buildings in Downtown, on sites that had been absolute blights on the neighborhood, each with a substantial component of ground-level public access (the Burnham Building, Roche Bros, and the Winthrop "Connector").
I'd estimate the odds any of the other developers who proposed on this site (which included basket case Trans National and Accordia, which has only ever built a couple of prefab hotels on D street but somehow is treated like a savior) would actually have anything vertical in 2023 to be under 20%.
Yeah. This is a more attractive building than MT and looks amazing from certain angles (Dewey Square in particular).
Yea sure tall buildings are cool. MT was a win, Winthrop is a complete fail-They reneged on the affordable housing building in chinatown and the "great hall".... and the building is clearly bad architecture. The "neighborhood" here isnt really a neighborhood at all with many people never seeing the garage wedged deep in the financial district. They used COVID as an excuse to cheap out on everything in a housing market that could barely be any hotter if it tried and theyre walking away scott free with huge bags of cash