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Shaping-up into the best construction project in Boston in many years Shape is the operative word Better than the Four Seasons because its Steel Better than North Station because its not square

Great location for a tower as someone posted earlier in August -- only shadows that can be significant on Copley from that location occur when the sun is due West and with the existing medium height plus buildings -- only new shadow will be very rare The sun would need to be due west and high...

Jeff yes that is now but according to their publicly accessible plan --- they start fairly soon on the foundation work for the Tower The foundation work will need a Tower Crane to access both the holes and also the supplies

Equilibria -- the first thing the developer must be told -- Fagetaboutit -- this isn't going to be another Kendall or Harvard's Ksq imitation or even the Seaport -- just not the right place and time for that Focus on Bio/pharma mfg -- and tell the developer to work with UMass Boston, Wentworth...

JumboBuc You need to put the impact of bio jobs into context --Greater Boston [in the greater sense] is not dominated by the high-PR value life-science companies -- they are probably 9th or 10th on the list of categories of major job creation enterprises top 10]: 1) Secondary and Higher...

While not a Tower Crane sighting at South Station -- guessing we'll see one in 2021 But: As they say in the trade -- That's one Humongous Crane just Look at the stack of counterweights

Don't think just in terms of this one project -- the entire Fort Point Channel on both sides is undergoing a Kendall Sq like transformation: In the pipeline: P&G will sell more of its land -- hopefully leaving the Gillette Manufacturing Plant intact and moving its R&D to one of the R&D...

Here's some more about the overall impact of Amazon on Greater Boston [well it includes some other bits outside the "Traditional; def of Greater Boston" in MA ] https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210126005379/en/Amazon-Expands-Boston-Tech-Hub-With-Plans-to-Create-3000-New-Jobs Amazon...

Yes -- that is a key city advantage -- but the old idea of hoards of people pouring out of the Amazons and Google's to share a pint or two -- not clear that model isn't obsolete For instance -- a lot of Google jobs are staying for now virtual and many of them will likely remain virtual with just...

Stick -- it could however become the home for a significant Bio-manufacturing complex. Somerville has a long and somewhat storied history of factories -- which as they say "good jobs at good wages" even if they aren't jobs needing an advanced degree in STEM

Massachoicetts -- you are still using pre-Pandemic models Commuting is a totally different animal now as is "Downtown" A lot of what we came to consider normal city activity is gone for now and to a large extent gone for good. No one will ever again need to fill an office tower with people...

Stefal -- when a Prof makes an application for a grant assuming as is usually the case that its competitive -- you can't just lump on cost and assume that the agency with pickup the tab Generally [unless its an unsolicited proposal]: The agency say an element of DOD, NIH, DOT, NASA, NOAA, DHS...

Shmessy -- no one is not aware of the location -- its what you do with the location -- the Muddy River was nothing until Olmstead reworked it If it was my landscape -- I'd put a pile of big boulders for kids of all ages [and dogs] to clamber over with the top high enough to get a good view and...

Nice pix That location is going to be a photo-wonderland when the glass is all in place The strange angles between MIT's new stuff and Google are going to make for amazing kaleidoscope shots when we get some good sunlight say sometime in September

Brownie14 Excellent timing for your pix -- you were clearly at the right place at the right time

Real question -- is there a true need for all that Lab/Office space that is now starting to become the replacement of Office for the development community? My guess is that as has happened before -- the exponential growth continuing forever syndrome has set in -- everyone thinks every parking...

Shmessy -- Piers Park 1,2,3 have a lot more in common with World's End in Hingham, or the once Wood Island Park or anyway they should than with the Brooklyn Bridge or La Rambla, etc. One of the problems with fixating on the process as opposed to being focused on the final product -- as Hubert...

Stick -- No -- One Marina Park Drive has two things going for it that this development will never have: 1) A major league Pharma Company i.e. Vertex 2) the Seaport District and the Harbor Somerville will always be the "back-office" district for Kendall and the Seaport

There is a distinct difference in the financial arithmetic between Undergraduate Dorms [a profit center] and Graduate Student Housing [a cost Center] When an undergrad comes to MIT they pay tuition and if they live on campus they pay MIT for housing them In contrast -- When you bring a...

The even sadder part is that Olmstead did the quintesential harbor edge project which the Trustees have in "Lands End" -- they should have sent their New Yoiker Landscape Architects there for inspiration