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HenryAlan said:
Same is true for the Hancock. Fortunately, both buildings have some extremely interesting profiles from other perspectives.
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The fat sides of SST are boring, the fat sides of JHT are offensive (in context of how amazing it appears from other angles).
 
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3/14 From the top of Dorchester Heights Monument. It was very windy and the line was long, so it wasn't easy to get a good shot, particularly through the netting. At least the netting pretty much disappears when zoomed in far enough, but it will be more visible in other shots I post to the skyline thread later. Sounds like the netting is there to stay.

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A new name atop Boston’s skyline: JPMorgan in talks for sign at South Station Tower - The Boston Globe

JPMorgan Chase has signed a lease in South Station Tower and is in talks with the city for signage rights atop the 51-story skyscraper.
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Boston’s South Station tower has landed an anchor tenant and a company name to emblazon across its facade.
JPMorganChase & Co. has finalized plans to lease 246,000 square feet across eight and a half floors at the newly finished South Station Tower, and is working with the city to secure rights to put a sign bearing its name atop the 51-story building, company leadership said Monday. It would be among the tallest signs on the downtown skyline and highly visible from the Southeast Expressway. “The way we designed South Station Tower was with a tenant like JPMorgan in mind,” said Sarah Hawkins, the head of the US East market for Houston development giant Hines, which built the project.
The Globe first reported last year that JPMorgan was considering consolidating some local offices into South Station Tower. The closed deal represents one of the largest direct leases in downtown in years and follows furniture e-retailer Wayfair and law firm WilmerHale renewing their Back Bay and downtown leases. The deal also comes as toymaker Hasbro Inc. prepares to relocate its headquarters from Rhode Island to the Seaport, in a 265,000-square-foot sublease at 400 Summer St.
About 700 JPMorgan employees will move into South Station from other local offices starting in 2028, and the bank expects its headcount here to grow to 1,000 by 2029.
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Love this so much. South Station needs some more foot traffic and love from an anchor tenant. Consolidating all those small offices has to be great for morale, and it frees up upper-middle class space elsewhere in the city. Super easy to get to NYC as well. Total no brainer across the board, 100% upside.

EDIT: 250k sf here, the other 3 tenants (Jones Day, FM, Citadel) have 100k sf, meaning at least 350k of 680k sf are now spoken for. Not terrible, all things considered.
 
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The new connection to the bus terminal still isn't open, as of a couple of days ago when I went by. It didn't even look like they were set up to be working on anything.

Work on the pedestrian experience in and around our biggest transit hub continues to look pretty half-assed.

SST should not have been allowed to open until this other work was done.
 
I just wish the arches connecting to the outside were more thought out. Maybe mostly glass except for 4 door ways each or tie them into the Red Lines headhouses' design. Just something that doesn't look unfinished.
 
guitarguynboston said:
I just wish the arches connecting to the outside were more thought out. Maybe mostly glass except for 4 door ways each or tie them into the Red Lines headhouses' design. Just something that doesn't look unfinished.
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I believe the open arches are necessary for air flow. You have diesel engines idling in the terminal. Close off the airflow and you could have some really bad outcomes.
 
JeffDowntown said:
I believe the open arches are necessary for air flow. You have diesel engines idling in the terminal. Close off the airflow and you could have some really bad outcomes.
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This.

Also, even with the open archways, those impressive arched ceilings are going to become fairly soot-covered sooner than I'd like to imagine (and given the T's horrible track-record of maintenance/cleaning, this could be awful -- unless maintenance of the arches come under the purview of SST?). If the arches weren't open, allowing for air flow, those arched ceilings would be black within two years. Just look at the "aluminum" siding of the headhouse where the trains arrive/depart. Disgusting.
 
In March, the Boston Planning Department unveiled draft changes that aim to streamline the process and make about 80 percent of signs permitted by right — meaning they would not need a zoning change.

See how easy that is? No one would have known if it weren't for the article and almost no one will care. Let's take some of this energy and apply it to housing.
 
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