Bulfinch Crossing | Congress Street Garage | West End

Do you mean the squat blobs that will partially obscure the best vantagepoint of State Street? Hopefully never, ever.
 
As far as I know there is still a 300' residential tower to be constructed on the west side of Congress in the garage footprint. Before building that they wanted to move ahead with an ugly lab building on the parcel east of Congress. Since that's stalled, I wish they would start on Residential II. It makes sense to put the brakes on a lab project on expensive real estate at this point, but by the time Residential II is complete there should be demand. I would guess the units would be cheaper than anything at South Station.
 
Stalled state of things where the residential 300' tower os planned. Too bad it's not a temporary beer garden at the moment. That would be a gold mine...
 

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NHMaples said:
As far as I know there is still a 300' residential tower to be constructed on the west side of Congress in the garage footprint. Before building that they wanted to move ahead with an ugly lab building on the parcel east of Congress. Since that's stalled, I wish they would start on Residential II. It makes sense to put the brakes on a lab project on expensive real estate at this point, but by the time Residential II is complete there should be demand. I would guess the units would be cheaper than anything at South Station.
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Given the fact they recently (finally) reopened southbound Congress Street, which presumably was held off for so long in case they wanted to start construction on the residential parcel, likely means nothing doing for a while. I walk by this site frequently and it’s awful to look at. Not as awful as the garage behemoth that was once there. But figuring that nothing is getting constructed anytime soon on either side of Congress, this is another Millenium Tower situation of a rubbled landscape in the middle of the city. Hope economic conditions or site plans change soon to allow something replace the demolished vacant lots.
 
Once a PDA is approved and a parcel sits empty they need to start taxing the plots at the rate it would be if the building were constructed and full. If they start construction, fine, go back, but there needs to be some incentive to not landbank.

That, or have a clause that reverts to municipal ownership if you don't follow thru
 
stick n move said:
What they really should have done is built out all of the ground level and then capped it so the tower could be restarted later.

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Then at least youd have this vs a half demolished garage face.
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This feels like one of those ideas that seems obvious/easy just looking at a picture but is probably a technical nightmare after the lower half is filled in with actual businesses or residences.

Construction is not a squeaky clean, quiet, or safe process.
 
393b40 said:
This feels like one of those ideas that seems obvious/easy just looking at a picture but is probably a technical nightmare after the lower half is filled in with actual businesses or residences.

Construction is not a squeaky clean, quiet, or safe process.
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Yea, its not, but its been done before with a few buildings, its not a completely novel concept. Even in boston right now 1 harbor shore dr. was built up to ground level and then capped for 8 years before being restarted last year. Looking at the above renders the floor at the garage roof opens up to the roof deck so its going to have to be a type of skylobby floor, which means its already a break in the floors. That the exact spot to stop if there ever was one.

The blue cross blue shield building in Chicago is one of the most famous example of this happening. The original 33 story building was completed in 1997, with the expansion started in 2007. The hospital kept operational throughout construction.

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