Millennium Tower (Filene's) | 426 Washington Street | Downtown

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DZH22 said:
Wanted to put some of the negative speculation about height to rest, so I took these tonight with my cell phone. The highest lit up floor is the "top out" floor. The mechanical top should make a substantial impact and truly separate MT from the rest of the financial district towers.



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That floor is already completed if you look back 2 pages with another what looks like mechanical floor above it. That being said the highest point is about 5 floors higher than what is shown in those pictures.
 
I was there on Monday I only counted 51 floors to the screen but maybe I counted wrong?
 
Boston02124 said:
I was there on Monday I only counted 51 floors to the screen but maybe I counted wrong?
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They're marketing it as a 60-story building, but they actually do a floor jump from 4 to 10, which fudges the actual account a bit. It's also unclear how they're treating 13th floor and mechanical floor midway in building.
 
Channel 7 news just had a quick mention and live shots from their helicopter about the topping out.

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GW said:
There's a model from the MT sales office at the end of that slideshow:

http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/mass_roundup/2015/09/top-of-the-hub-check-out-millennium-towers.html#g20

Seems to confirm that the mechs after the top-floor setback are substantial...

....but it also makes the roof look flat. Am I imagining that? I always thought it was going to be slanted.
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I think that is just because of the angle the picture was taken from looking down at the building somewhat. Although I don't think the roof is quite as angled as some of the renderings had made it appear.
 
It's been a while since I've posted to imgur and then linked to here, so hopefully I'm not about to display an old fogey moment instead of a link to a picture:

http://imgur.com/EXONPZ1
 
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Is MT going to be lit up at night at the top? Anything? Obviously there's no "crown", but will there be lights at all, or is this just another boring-at-night tower a la the Hancock tower?
 
OK, I finally remembered how to do this pic upload from imgur.

This pic is from the topping off ceremony. Pretty lousy angle as far as actually seeing the tree - it's a tiny little dot on the side of the substructure being hauled up and swung over. But the angle does give a sense of the scale of this thing:

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There's no reason they can't build a flat roof while slanting the glass. Additionally the hankcock is an office building this is residential so there will be lighting on the tower regardless. It does look like from some of the images there is lighting unless that's just the penthouse being lit..
 
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