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Great photos. Did this project stall out for a while? It seems like there has been prep work ongoing for 18 months now.

Anyone know whats happening with the Lyra (née The Huntington)? That project seems to have been in the site prep phase for ever. https://archboston.com/community/threads/lyra-n%C3%A9e-the-huntington-252-258-264-huntington-avenue-fenway.5399/page-16

Thanks for the update. I guess not too surprising. New housing construction, particularly in high cost central locations, is basically slowing to a trickle with interest rates and whatnot.

Yeah, this is a good solid project of which Bos/Cam could use 20 or 30 more. Hopefully this actually breaks ground within the next year or so. Although with interest rates, materials costs and general economic uncertainty, I'm not super optimistic. I would love to be wrong.

My initial reaction wasn't what a dump. Rather that should have been twice as tall.

In theory, I agree. But, this is the west end after all. As is, the years to completion of this will likely be greater than the number of stories.

Nice rundown of projects. Too bad there is virtually no housing construction in Seaport.

Not defending this. It's terrible. But, aren't they pretty limited in height due to shadow laws?

Great to see. It seems like the pipeline of U/C apartment projects has been drying up recently.

I like the new look. The view before always gave off a "whelp that's the end of the city folks" vibe to me.

I can't see this happening. The developer has had issues with public-private project falling through.. https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2019/04/04/the-debacle-at-fifth-and-eye-why-the-lot-is-still.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Donahue_Peebles#Cancelled_or_rescinded_projects

Hum..so based on HelloBoston's post above and on the previous page it looks like this might be a separate project or at least phase from the tower?

Sorry to bump a thread for delay news... https://www.universalhub.com/2021/developer-gets-extra-year-build-21-story-hotel

I don't have stats, but I think it is pretty widely accepted that taller=more expensive construction costs, but lower land costs.

Relatively minor news..but it looks like this project is moving forward. Development Replacing Harriet Tubman House Secures $46M Construction Loan November 3, 2020 Andrew Martinez...

Thanks for the update. The BPDA website still lists this as under review, so I assume construction starting just yet. The comment period ended on October 16th. Hopefully that means approval is coming soon. http://www.bostonplans.org/projects/development-projects/149-155-newbury-street

I'm fairly skeptical about municipal government-led incentives to move to otherwise down and out cities. But, moving from the high cost costal cities to less expensive cities has been the social trend for a long time. https://www.valuepenguin.com/2019/11/metro-migration-patterns

NYC and DC have formal neighborhood boards. NYCs Community Boards are appointed by elected officials while DCs Advisory Neighborhood Commissions (ANC) are directly elected. ANCs. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advisory_Neighborhood_Commission...

DC has done a few other the years. Theirs are arguably easier given the outcome is generally 10 story glass boxes for law firms/lobbyists. The big one right now is Capital Crossing. https://www.capitolcrossingdc.com/ Next up, there are plans for development over the train tracks at Union...

Onyx Hotel expansion in downtown Boston means the end of another parking lot https://boston.curbed.com/2020/2/14/21137125/onyx-hotel-expansion-downtown-boston