Brickyard at Assembly | 120-132 Middlesex Avenue | Somerville

Javier said:
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Sorry! Still 74M, I think! Your angle on Brickyard will look like this:

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Parsing that letter very tightly, it seems they dropped the office component of the original “Lab/R+D/Office” building. And the Somerville planning director is saying it’s not such a big deal change, no prob. My best guess.
 
shmessy said:
Parsing that letter very tightly, it seems they dropped the office component of the original “Lab/R+D/Office” building. And the Somerville planning director is saying it’s not such a big deal change, no prob. My best guess.
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Every core shell lab building is a lab/office building. It's all a matter of the split.
Typically these days it's back to 60/40 from a brief time when it was 50/50.

With the difficulty of getting people back into the office, they may start venturing closer to 70/30.

The office component is still very much a part of these buildings.
 
SeamusMcFly said:
Every core shell lab building is a lab/office building. It's all a matter of the split.
Typically these days it's back to 60/40 from a brief time when it was 50/50.

With the difficulty of getting people back into the office, they may start venturing closer to 70/30.

The office component is still very much a part of these buildings.
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Even lab workers who have to come into work primarily to do lab work like to have a separate place to sit outside the wet lab.
 

Why DivcoWest Is Advancing A New 19-Story Lab Development In Somerville​

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“While many life sciences projects across Greater Boston have pivoted or remained stalled for years, DivcoWest is advancing plans for a lab development in one of the most distressed submarkets in the region.

The Somerville Planning Board on Thursday night voted unanimously in favor of the site plan for DivcoWest's 120-132 Middlesex Ave. lab development near Assembly Row.

The approval effectively revives the project, for which the developer had received a two-year extension in 2024 due to slow leasing in the area. Rather than apply for another extension, DivcoWest decided to advance the project.”


www.bisnow.com

DivcoWest's 19-Story Lab Advancing In Somerville

DivcoWest received planning approval for a 19-story lab in Somerville despite a still-sluggish Greater Boston life sciences market.
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To start with, obviously more labs makes no sense in the area. Now for the stats...

This will end up being Somerville's 6th new tallest building since 2016. On another note, none of the buildings have diagrams on skyscraperpage so I included the casino. I believe the new proposal will be around 350'.

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stick n move said:
www.bisnow.com

DivcoWest's 19-Story Lab Advancing In Somerville

DivcoWest received planning approval for a 19-story lab in Somerville despite a still-sluggish Greater Boston life sciences market.
www.bisnow.com www.bisnow.com
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I doubt this will break ground anytime soon:
Representatives of the development team met with the Somerville Planning Board on Aug. 20 and detailed why they still envision the lab building proposal as the future for the site, the Cambridge Somerville Independent reported. They said the developer doesn't plan to break ground speculatively, but they think having entitlements in place will help land a big tenant that could kick-start construction.
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