Recent content by chrisbrat

Hotel Alexandra is walking distance from (or very short uber from if you’re lazy or weather is horrific): Northeastern, symphony hall, MFA, prudential center, Berklee, Fenway park, back bay, etc, and is IN the south end with all the restaurants etc that are located there. It’s not like this is...

For the frequent talk of "there's too much blue glass!" on here, this pic accurately reflects my own impression when walking around downtown while at work or any other time -- other than JHT, most of these glass-clad towers look way more "mirror-ish" than blue, to me. 1 Dalton's dark grey and...

In the renders it doesn’t look aggressively blue (the glass) to me, but already light grey/blue (not that that means much; based on renders 1 Dalton would have been 3 shades lighter and far more blue). Some green glazing might look cool, but I understand how folks might balk at that since it...

Hope it happens. Finally. Such a gorgeous building in a prime spot to just sit, rotting away, for decades. Shameful.

More units, for sure, but get rid of that siding and do a full restoration and that would be a quite nice late-Victorian.

If only they could fix the few remaining windows at one congress...

you spoke my thoughts precisely! :)

I like the bridge w/o the paneling, but I'm sure it'll be nice after the install. 🤷‍♂️

Interesting you bring that up. I've been a little curious about maintenance/cleaning of said domes.

It's being placed in a spot which is currently surface parking, not a brownstone: "Project Description Trustees of Boston University (the “Proponent”) proposes to transform an existing 56,900-square foot (“sf”) surface parking lot into the Fredrick S. Pardee School of Global Studies (the...

Extremely informative and fascinating info. Thanks for sharing!

I hear ya and that's unquestionably true. I still find it remarkable that such a large parcel in such a competitive market segment would remain vacant for so long. I used to live right near that former Star Market and my rinky-dink condo is now worth nearly 4x what it sold for in 2008.

Appreciate the new renders and this is (of course) better than the vacant lot that's been there for going on 20 years, but when I talked to someone allegedly working on the project last fall I was told they were breaking ground this coming spring. Now they "expect" to get going sometime this...

Enthusiastic agree. Anyone thinking otherwise is downright “moronic” (heya @curcuas!)

Proof that it can be done correctly. Boston should demand much more from developers, particularly in spots such as this.