WBZ-TV/CBS Studio Development Project | 1170-2000 Soldiers Field Road | Allston

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Construction to Begin for New WBZ Studio in Allston​

12/18/23​

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“A permit valued at $39,906,689 has been issued to begin work on the upcoming WBZ-TV studio along Soldiers Field Road in Allston. The 63,000-square-foot studio will include state-of-the-art studio, production and office space to replace WBZ’s building, which opened in 1948. Once construction of the new studio is complete the older building will be demolished to open a large piece of land for a mixed-use project set to include a mix of residential and life science space.”

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83 Leo Property Owner LLC closed on its purchase of the studio/office building at 83 Leo M. Birmingham Parkway in Boston for $11,120,000 today. Published reports say the new owner will spend another $7 million when zoning approvals are granted or Audacy vacates the property.

"Audacy will enter into a $40,000 per month lease with 3% annual increase for two years with an option for an additional 90 days. The property was built as the studios of WSBK-TV 38, which then became the home of CBS Radio and later Audacy Boston."

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Audacy Sells Pair Of Boston Real Estate Assets - RadioInsight

As it proceeds through its prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, Audacy has agreed to sell a pair of real estate assets in Boston. The tower site for Sports 850 WEEI Boston will go to American Tower Corporation for $3.5 million. The court filing notes that Audacy has leased a portion of...
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what is the address/location of the EEI tower site that also sold?

there will be a thread for 83 leo before end of spring...
 
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I really, really, really wish Boston could at least attempt to encourage having smaller building footprints in areas where major redevelopment is possible. The sizes here aren’t the worst, but still have the potential to exert an imposing presence that overwhelms the street experience and could produce a decidedly anti-urbanistic feel.
 
FK4 said:
I really, really, really wish Boston could at least attempt to encourage having smaller building footprints in areas where major redevelopment is possible. The sizes here aren’t the worst, but still have the potential to exert an imposing presence that overwhelms the street experience and could produce a decidedly anti-urbanistic feel.
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The city actually encourages developers to build as wide as humanly possible and then makes them hilariously “break up the massing” through facade colors, as if that fools anyone.
 
MAGGLIOORDONEZ said:
The city actually encourages developers to build as wide as humanly possible and then makes them hilariously “break up the massing” through facade colors, as if that fools anyone.
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We live in an era where only the image of something matters. As long as the keywords are there, the substance matters not.
 
FK4 said:
I really, really, really wish Boston could at least attempt to encourage having smaller building footprints in areas where major redevelopment is possible. The sizes here aren’t the worst, but still have the potential to exert an imposing presence that overwhelms the street experience and could produce a decidedly anti-urbanistic feel.
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This type of superblock development is happening all too much in Everett as well as Boston, as discussed elsewhere on aB. The need for a street grid is important for creating or reinforcing an urban neighborhood. Instead we have these superblock landscrapers sprawling on the urban fabric.
 
-Started as new wbz tv studio, then changed to lab, now its housing. Honestly the timing of the lab downturn is perfect because we need to build thousands of new housing units just to break even with all of the jobs added over the last few years let alone making a dent into the overall housing inventory citywide. Were gonna need a lot of these proposed lab sites to switch to res too.



Six-story residential building could go up on Soldiers Field Road where TV station was supposed to move to make room for a $1-billion life-sciences complex that got canceled​

“A Brookline developer will soon file plans for a six-story, 58-unit residential building at 1200 Soldiers Field Rd., to replace an empty office building that was once slated to be torn down for the new home of WBZ-TV, which in turn planned to move from its longtime home next door to make way for a four-building, mainly life-sciences campus, only the market for new life-sciences lab space in the Boston area collapsed and the developers abandoned their plans in 2024.

In a letter of intent filed with the Boston Planning Department, Brookline Development Corp. (BDC) said its proposal would include 37 parking spaces and a roof deck, along with sidewalk improvements, all of which would "transform this edge location into a much-needed scale of market-rate and income-restricted housing" consistent with other new development along the Western Avenue corridor……..”

 
-What in gods name is going on with this facade??

58-Unit Residential Project Proposed for 1200 Soldiers Field Road in Allston​

“A new residential development has been proposed for 1200 Soldiers Field Road in Boston’s Allston neighborhood.

The proposed project would include up to 58 residential units, 37 off-street parking spaces, bicycle parking for residents and guests, and a roof deck terrace, along with significant upgrades to the site’s landscape and public realm……”

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58-Unit Residential Project Proposed for 1200 Soldiers Field Road in Allston

58-Unit Residential Project Proposed for 1200 Soldiers Field Road in Allston
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The projections look like the architectural equivalent of a cellphone shoved in a pair yoga pants.
 
I don't mind it at all. In fact, I kind of like it. Visually interesting with decent proportions.
 
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