quadratdackel
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What is this, Christmas in July? First a tower at Copley Place, now this. From the Boston Courant, which is not online, so I'll just paraphrase:
The building's to be on the Exeter Street side of the Prudential Center, near the garage entrance and the Shaw's supermarket. It would be 40 feet from the Gloucester apartment tower, whose residents would lose their city views. (That the new tower's residents would gain city views was of course not mentioned in the article.) The plan is new- Menino hadn't even heard of it when the Courant contacted him, and the BRA hasn't received anything. However, this may fit within existing zoning laws, which would reduce NABB's involvement, although they'd still be concerned about the height, shadows, wind, traffic, and flying, missle-shooting robotic gorillas such a development would bring to the neighborhood. (OK, OK, NABB didn't mention traffic.) It seems Boston Properties, who owns the parcel, is leading this development push, in cooperation with the Avalon development company, the Prudential Project Advisory Committee, and the city, all of whom are trying to add more housing to the Pru.
I can only wonder: What big new development will the next week's Courant bring us?
The building's to be on the Exeter Street side of the Prudential Center, near the garage entrance and the Shaw's supermarket. It would be 40 feet from the Gloucester apartment tower, whose residents would lose their city views. (That the new tower's residents would gain city views was of course not mentioned in the article.) The plan is new- Menino hadn't even heard of it when the Courant contacted him, and the BRA hasn't received anything. However, this may fit within existing zoning laws, which would reduce NABB's involvement, although they'd still be concerned about the height, shadows, wind, traffic, and flying, missle-shooting robotic gorillas such a development would bring to the neighborhood. (OK, OK, NABB didn't mention traffic.) It seems Boston Properties, who owns the parcel, is leading this development push, in cooperation with the Avalon development company, the Prudential Project Advisory Committee, and the city, all of whom are trying to add more housing to the Pru.
I can only wonder: What big new development will the next week's Courant bring us?