At the last meeting Yanni Tsipis from WS definitively confirmed Parcel 8 was in the cards. Who knows how long we will have to wait, but engineering a portion of this building as a connection to Parcel 8 is a significant indicator that WS and the Fenway Group are serious.
The price per square foot for the market rate condos in this location should justify real brick… not panelling. This will be especially obvious given the proximity to the original building. One more example of a silly number of facade styles. At least it doesn’t have alternating windows.
Fan Pier Parcel H. Here is the thread:
https://archboston.com/community/threads/one-harbor-shore-dr-fan-pier-parcel-h-1-harbor-shore-drive-seaport.5076/
Unfortunately, this was not approved at the BPDA meeting last week. The Board was “disturbed” by the letters from the community alleging that they were not heard and not treated with respect. The Board voted to table the NPC to at least the next month to allow the developer to rebuild trust with...
The glass in the “cut out” now extends all the way to meet the vertical facade on the top and bottom. This change was likely made to reduce the actual structural complexity and cost, rather than for architectural design purposes.
FAR of 4.3 on 31 acres translates to roughly 5.8 million square feet. Numbers could always be higher, but I'd be hard pressed to complain about 5.8 million square feet of new development.
Skanska pulled the building permit. Simmons has a live feed of the construction. Wish we could get more of these:
https://dash.evercam.io/v2/projects/skans-hfoni/simmo-nehjq