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Part of the fencing along the walkway is down and it looks like the rest is coming down soon. Looks like nice landscaping when approaching from the convention center.

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Danny Meyer was already announced as the tenant for two of the restaurant spaces, but now it's confirmed Commonwealth Pier will be getting Daily Provisions (cafe) and Ci Siamo (Italian). For those who don't know his work, he has some phenomenal restaurants in NYC and is also behind Shake Shack. Should be a real benefit to the waterfront.


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Legendary New York restaurateur Danny Meyer announces plans to open Ci Siamo in the Seaport - The Boston Globe

The man responsible for Gramercy Tavern will open Ci Siamo, plus Daily Provisions, at Commonwealth Pier.
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This is new and...unexpected. Anyone else hear about this before? Looks like Fidelity is sponsoring the museum, which is appropriate. The article also notes that Fidelity is leasing its Summer St location next to South Station, which I hadn't heard before. I thought Commonwealth Pier was in addition to their longtime home base next to South Station.

The Museum of American Finance, coming to the Seaport next summer, tries to put the ‘fun’ in mutual funds​


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The Museum of American Finance, coming to the Seaport next summer, tries to put the ‘fun’ in mutual funds - The Boston Globe

The museum plans to showcase its collection of banking, investment, and currency memorabilia at the revamped Commonwealth Pier beginning next July.
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Justbuildit said:
This is new and...unexpected. Anyone else hear about this before? Looks like Fidelity is sponsoring the museum, which is appropriate. The article also notes that Fidelity is leasing its Summer St location next to South Station, which I hadn't heard before. I thought Commonwealth Pier was in addition to their longtime home base next to South Station.

The Museum of American Finance, coming to the Seaport next summer, tries to put the ‘fun’ in mutual funds​


www.bostonglobe.com

The Museum of American Finance, coming to the Seaport next summer, tries to put the ‘fun’ in mutual funds - The Boston Globe

The museum plans to showcase its collection of banking, investment, and currency memorabilia at the revamped Commonwealth Pier beginning next July.
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'The Museum of American Finance' - that sounds like a blast. Maybe we can also vie for 'The Museum of Income Tax Exemptions' or 'The Museum of Zoning Variances'
 
Smuttynose said:
'The Museum of American Finance' - that sounds like a blast. Maybe we can also vie for 'The Museum of Income Tax Exemptions' or 'The Museum of Zoning Variances'
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I know you think you're kidding, but seriously, there are legitimately national museums of taxation, and appropriate to the moment, collection of customs duties - examples in the Netherlands, Germany, Korea, France, China, Israel. There are also a whole set of urban planning museums out there - most famously the City Gallery of Singapore, but Hong Kong also has one, as do the French and several in China. Those mostly serve to display the governments redevelopment plans, sort of a bigger better version of Boston's own model room in City Hall. But yea... The West End Museum is probably the local museum of Zoning and it's Consequences.

But I can actually see this working out quite well for Boston. There's 12 Federal Reserve Banks in the US, and 11 of them have museums, galleries or experiences attached to them or their branches as part of their economic education missions. Basically, field trip destinations. For example, The St. Louis Fed, famous for its FRED line of data products, has the Economy Museum, the Chicago Fed has the Money Museum, the Atlanta Fed operates 4 different museums including the Museum of Trade, Finance, and the Fed in New Orleans, etc, etc.

The Boston Fed is unique amongst the Federal Reserve Banks for not having an outreach and education site, and having been on a high school field trip to the Boston Fed, there's not much to do there except hang out in conference rooms and pretend to be an adult. I got a branded pen & bag out of that experience, but that was kinda it. If they do a tie up? I can actually see this doing quite well as a science museum type thing - less museum per se, more educational experience.
 
It's too bad this museum isn't on Wall Street any longer (was flooded out of its home in 2018), where it was truly appropriate. That said, it seemed to be a great museum from what I read and it's great for Boston that it's found a new home here.
 
Yes, and someday I hope to bike from the North End, past here, to the Blue Hills via the Harborwalk and its connection to the beautiful Neponset River Esplanade and Greenway that is currently under construction
 
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The Commonwealth Pier redo, when finally completed with the Harborwalk extension, the retail, the restaurants, along with the new public spaces, will be a freakin amazing addition to the Seaport!!
 
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I'm very excited about this and think it's going to be a wonderful addition to the harborwalk... but I'm a little disappointed with the way the end of the pier interacts with the harbor. A big black wall with some setbacks is the best they could do?
 
If you’re talking about the end that fronts the actual open harbor, that wall is entirely glass across the whole end of the structure. It may look like a black wall in the photos but it will give stunning views to anyone at that end of the building.
 
BronsonShore said:
I'm very excited about this and think it's going to be a wonderful addition to the harborwalk... but I'm a little disappointed with the way the end of the pier interacts with the harbor. A big black wall with some setbacks is the best they could do?
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At least it's glass, probably intended to provide views of the harbor from the interior. A lighter, more reflective type of glass would have gone better with the white sides of the building.

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Justbuildit said:
If you’re talking about the end that fronts the actual open harbor, that wall is entirely glass across the whole end of the structure. It may look like a black wall in the photos but it will give stunning views to anyone at that end of the building.
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I'm aware of that. My issue is what it looks like from the outside.
 
BronsonShore said:
I'm very excited about this and think it's going to be a wonderful addition to the harborwalk... but I'm a little disappointed with the way the end of the pier interacts with the harbor. A big black wall with some setbacks is the best they could do?
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I think it's kind of cool. The dark color w/ the variety of setbacks, heights, and angles make it almost look like the waves of the harbor. Something lighter would just blend in with the rest of the seaport high-rises.
 
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