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    Bulfinch Crossing | Congress Street Garage | West End

    This 1782 map suggests this site was once part of the harbor. The right-most three fathom mark near the bottom of Beacon Hill before the top sixty feet of Beacon Hill was removed to help create the Back Bay. Back in the day, Sentry Hill (where the State House is) was part of the Tri-mountain...
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    Bulfinch Crossing | Congress Street Garage | West End

    Ski Monster's street address is 60 Canal, which does appear to be part of the same block-long building. ^^^ This is the background building in Beeline's image, magnified.
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    Bulfinch Crossing | Congress Street Garage | West End

    Beelines last image shows a red brick building in the background, and which appears to be largely vacant. Google maps indicates the building is One Chardon St. Are there any plans for this building? https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZaXEtR9n3hEFtWbz6 ^^^ Google streetview is from 2020, but little...
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    35 Electric Avenue | Brighton

    From the site map above, the location is the Welch Corp yard. Welch is a general contractor. See streetview: https://maps.app.goo.gl/qjiYF98fLsvdg6nSA
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    Shreve, Crump & Low Redevelopment | 334-364 Boylston Street | Back Bay

    Perhaps ironically, 900 16th St. NW was built on the site of a demolished building. A building that was locally landmarked, and arguably, a much more important building, architecturally. that SC&L. See: https://historicsites.dcpreservation.org/items/show/594 Photo credit...
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    Logan Airport Flights and Airlines Discussion

    Article on CNBC today stating that JetBlue is deferring delivery of 44 A-321 planes through 2029. JetBlue is also short of planes because its A-320 aircraft powered with Pratt & Whitney engines must be inspected and repaired, if necessary. Over 1,000 engines (multiple airlines) are subject to...
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    Northeastern University Multipurpose Athletic Facility | 262 St. Botolph Street | Fenway

    History of the Arena here. https://nuhuskies.com/sports/2013/4/3/GEN_0403130702 Northeastern did preserve a small part of the old, original entrance. Google streetview https://maps.app.goo.gl/PL1brNTFXNJ2AS1p7 The original. (There are photographs from the 1930s showing it still existed...
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    Eli Lilly IGM | 15 Necco Street | Fort Point

    The image, magnified, suggests the cobble pyramid is on its way to becoming a guano pyramid.
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    Salem MA Developments

    Construction has started on the second of the two conversions of former school buildings. This one is the former St. James school site, and is the new construction part. Image courtesy of the Globe, and ICON architects. Note the brickwork, explained in part below. Photo below of the...
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    Everett Docklands Innovation District | 52 Beacham Street | Everett

    ^^^ This is Jupiter's lithium battery storage facility in Harris County Texas (Houston). In the rendering, the two white, domed structures are existing and related to natural gas storage. The lithium battery storage, based on the Harris County photo, looks to be a long, open-area rectangle...
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    Gillette leaving Southie.

    The LOI states that "a portion of the site includes tidelands that are subject to licensing under [Chapter 91]". Chapter 91 requires a minimum of 50 percent open space. Chiofaro's last design for his Harbor Garage property adhered to this Chapter 91 requirement, but it took several iterations...
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    Lab Building (née Hotel Hampshire) | 34-40 Hampshire St. | Cambridge

    From investopedia, [Emphasis in the original]
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    Lab Building (née Hotel Hampshire) | 34-40 Hampshire St. | Cambridge

    My guess is that 30 Hampshire St. will go belly-up. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/08/15/business/lab-space-vacancy-boston/?p1=BGSearch_Overlay_Results
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    Wind Turbines in Mass

    Groundbreaking today in Salem for the state's second off-shore wind turbine port facility. Scheduled to open in 2026. https://www.wcvb.com/article/groundbreaking-held-in-salem-for-states-second-major-off-shore-wind-port/61885451 https://www.salemoffshorewind.com/...
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    Eli Lilly IGM | 15 Necco Street | Fort Point

    Open. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/08/13/business/eli-lilly-center-genetic-medicine-fort-point/?et_rid=1745615983&s_campaign=todaysheadlines:newsletter Lab view. Image credit to the Boston Globe.
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    Everett Docklands Innovation District | 52 Beacham Street | Everett

    These were not petroleum storage tanks, but gasholders, built in the 19th Century for the storage of illuminating gas. The development, writ large, is known as Kings Cross. And indeed, numerous old industrial structures are preserved and reutilized...
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    The New Office/Lab Thread

    A reminder. Bain Capital is separate from Bain & Co.; the latter will be occupying the new building that is replacing the demolished Shreve, Crump, and Low building.
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    Winthrop Center | 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District

    A very nice and intimate setting, at least at night. I had to Google for the answer to what happened to the Robert Burns statue. The statue was moved back to the Fens in 2019, the original site of the statue. See WGBH story...
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    Potential Exelon Mystic Station Redevelopment | Everett

    As noted above, all it would take to forestall this approach in an informal session would be for a single legislator to object. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/08/01/business/revolution-stadium-in-everett/
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    Potential Exelon Mystic Station Redevelopment | Everett

    No, it is not it. As the state senator from Everett has stated, the stadium could be brought up as a separate bill. The previous two attempts have tried to pass it by including it in an omnibus bill. The problem is that in the stadium bill and in the bilateral agreement between the Krafts and...

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