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The NIMBY’s who have “garden level” condos on Comm Avenue bullied them into less height, cause “teh views and sun lite”

They’ve started to jump down the crane (hence its strange position in that pic). Expected to be complete Sunday. This site is just barreling along.

Mods, can you split the housing convo off to that thread? This is tedious and offers no new info on the development of a site zoned for retail.

Word around the neighborhood in the summer of 2020 was that there was a ton of abatement, elevators were shot, escalators were shot, electric service was shot. Price seems a tad high, but it’s essentially a gut rehab so maybe not.

Building shadows are *so much* different and twelve times more harmful than the naturally-occurring tree shade that protects pedestrians from the sun. Everyone knows this! /sarcasm

I don’t know. As much as I mourn the loss of the cornice, parapet, greenhouse, and street-clock, someone obviously took a lot of thought on proportionality of the precedent arches when the orangery was replaced with the set-back bays for the building extension on Fairfield. If one didn’t know it...

Edit to add: The Galvin flower shop circa 1910s. There are some other images out there.

I find it interesting that Tavistock is actively marketing the former C&B retail space, despite the fact that this was approved by the BPDA some time ago. Joe Lewis is worth some $4.3B, but he’s delaying this drop-in-a-bucket project that would hugely expand his retail/restaurant revenue stream...

BRA site lists it as on hold.

This has been making me nuts for days. I recall reading about the painted west facade of many cathedrals. I can’t find the actual article, but the Wiki for Amiens talks briefly about the annual festival that they host with some proprietarytech to make it appear what they it actually looked it...

“Hurt” or “impact”? I live, work, and play inside 128, and I’m okay with charging anyone who feels it’s their God Given Right to pal round my neighborhood. Tolling the suburbanites who are so mad they got a ticket for parking in a Resident Only spot (after 8:00 PM, weekdays), when they were up...

Haven’t peaked at this thread for ages, but this reminded me of a rumor from old TOTH managers that Boston Properties (BPX) hoped Eddie V’s would be the interim TOTH while BPX renovated for a new Skywalk/dining experience. Not sure how that’s worked out, given the only view from V’s is...

They crane equipment and materials onto them and then hump it into the building. Before they closed up the south facade, looked like it was HVAC units. edit to add: “… looked like it was HVAC units they were loading in.” Sorry, incomplete sentence. I was Zooming and replying, oops. Also...

That horrible ‘50s-ish pile of indignity is owned by Christian Science, think it’s addressed as 180-190 Mass Ave. FCCS had a deal to redevelop into a 30-some floor midrise but it fell through during lockdown. Then, the long-term tenant vacated the office space. There’s apparently a non-profit...

Random question I don’t know where to post. Anyone know what’s up with the Old Hancock’s beacon that flipped to green the other night?

I have to respectfully disagree. That Boston.blah article was a mugging, and it seems they’re just butt-hurt about the lack of parking. Super petty, but it’s the Boston Glob’s ignorant little sibling, so, lol. Peebles had the rug pulled out from under them, twice, (due to no fault of their...

It’s 260-262 Comm Ave, a former Bay State frat house being redeveloped by the most inept collection of morons I’ve ever observed. 1010 is pulling their hair out at the incompetent manner in which they demo’d without a permit, screwed the abutters on both sides, and don’t have even a casual...

I’d heard whispers the impediment was Harold Brown’s (RIP?) The Hamilton Company, who wouldn’t entertain an easement across their abutting property to the west—or, at least not at the price Samuels was willing to pay to connect to Ipswich outbound to Fenway Park.

Things were super-bonkers back in the day. Lawrence Berk, founder of what is now the Berklee College of Music empire, apparently had a rent-controlled penthouse in the Boylston (now, Ava) residential building. A rent-controlled penthouse. I don’t even know how that works!

True! It was a disgusting narrow but long store, huge rodent issues, and no windows since it was all under the Boylston arcade. Others who lived nearby back then (kz?) might remember it. The new Shaw’s (now downgraded to Star) was a wonder when it first opened.