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Mass General Brigham Releases Vision for Modernized Brigham Inpatient Building

Mass General Brigham announced a vision for state-of-the-art space at its Brigham and Women’s campus in Longwood.
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Pretty similar massing to the new building in the west end.
 
Along with the one in FK’s post they’re still in the ‘illustrative vision’ phase it appears. Considering the spatial constraints it seems like the most logical way to achieve their goal. I had always assumed that they’d gobble up the properties across Francis when it came time for their next big improvement.

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kmp1284 said:
Along with the one in FK’s post they’re still in the ‘illustrative vision’ phase it appears. Considering the spatial constraints it seems like the most logical way to achieve their goal. I had always assumed that they’d gobble up the properties across Francis when it came time for their next big improvement.

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They can't gobble them up. They're owned by a single tenant-owned group, RTH (Roxbury Tenants of Harvard), which includes the Mission Park towers and townhouses. Those triple deckers had been bought by HMS in the 60s and 70s, for their expansion plans until voraciously opposed by the community. HMS ended up selling those triple deckers to RTH in 2002.

Ive posted before about how while the mission of RTH to protect their tenants is noble, ultimately, their resistance to redevelopment can hurt the bigger picture and affordable housing goals as a whole. - Here I do think they really should take HMS money for those lots and build bigger and better on neighboring parcels - something like their own Mosaic on Riverway, or their stalled project at 775 Huntington. All of those houses are nice enough, but here, their historic value is minimal in comparison to the value of the location.

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Stlin said:
They can't gobble them up. They're owned by a single tenant-owned group, RTH (Roxbury Tenants of Harvard), which includes the Mission Park towers and townhouses. Those triple deckers had been bought by HMS in the 60s and 70s, for their expansion plans until voraciously opposed by the community. HMS ended up selling those triple deckers to RTH in 2002.

Ive posted before about how while the mission of RTH to protect their tenants is noble, ultimately, their resistance to redevelopment can hurt the bigger picture and affordable housing goals as a whole. - Here I do think they really should take HMS money for those lots and build and bigger on neighboring parcels - like their own Mosaic on Riverway, or their own stalled project at 775 Huntington. All of those houses are nice enough, but here, their historic value is minimal in comparison to the value of the location.

Our Story - RTH

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I completely agree. RTH has historically be a great story, but at this point, like many once-good entities, they too are standing in the way of change in a way that is unrealistic.
 
kmp1284 said:
Along with the one in FK’s post they’re still in the ‘illustrative vision’ phase it appears. Considering the spatial constraints it seems like the most logical way to achieve their goal. I had always assumed that they’d gobble up the properties across Francis when it came time for their next big improvement.

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I hope they cannot touch those properties. They are beautiful houses.
 
Jeremi said:
Presumably in one of the other 20 garages in the neighborhood until the new garage under the new hospital is complete.
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Easier said than done. Those garages are further away, probably also operate close to capacity and are aligned with other organizations in the area.
 
Fun fact, Francis Street used to have a number of vacant lots. Some of the houses on Francis Street now were moved there from Vining Street and Fenwood Road when they built the BWH Shapiro Center
 
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