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JLL arranges $870 million construction loan for South Station redevelopment - on behalf of Hines, APG Groep NV and Dune Real Estate https://nerej.com/jll-arranges-870m-const-loan-for-south-station-redevelopment

I think the North End is a pretty good model. It's no longer an Italian neighborhood by residency, but it remains a heart of Italian culture in Boston. If there is organic community support to keep a Chinatown, the city/,state governments can help cultural events, heritage memorials, etc...

Prescient post..

I have a series of meandering thoughts on this: 1) this study was carried out by an advocacy research organization. While that doesn't discredit it, we should be cautious about its conclusions. Particularly since they line up with the research orgs ideological priors. 2) A dozen lux condo...

I have mixed feeling about losing the prewar structure. In a odd way, I would rather see the city lose A FEW brownstones than a pre-war midrise. Buildings like this are in shorter supply and they help ease the transitions between 3-story 19th century brownstones and 21st century glass and...

If they actually come close to $1600/mo that is a pretty good deal. Watermark in the Seaports cheapest studio is roughly $2500 for 450 sq feet. You'd save $10k a year to put up with a little less space. I could see making that trade-off for at least a year or two...

I would say Boston's development has been a solid, slow and steady type cycle. It doesn't compare with the transformative crains everywhere style booms of Seattle or Toronto. Those are clearly cities that are climbing urban tiers. But it's a nice solid holding its own type boom on par with...

Lower Manhattan in the front, Crystal City in the back.

Great pics as always Beeline. Interesting the sign says "renovation of 40 Trinity Place." The whole building is about to be demoed right?

Since the project is dead and the thread has derailed, I spent some time digging into the topic of how students are counted in pop figures a couple years ago... In 2010, Boston had a population of 617,594 people, of those 39,517 lived in "non-institutional group quarters." (aka dorms)(See page...

Yeah, Census numbers count college students in the city where they live when at college: https://www.census.gov/population/ww...les.html#EIGHT Census shows 105k people in Boston are college students: https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?src=CF

It seems the bigger issue was the final proposal only had 108 ultra lux condo units. They could have built more smaller units to lower the risk. But, the additional units would have required additional parking. It is unclear how much this is due to regulatory requirements vs. market demand...

Thanks for the update. This is better than being canceled, but I was really hoping to hear this project get off the ground sooner than that. Boston has done a great job this boom with adding taller buildings in the downtown/north station area. But, the Back Bay/Kenmore section has been...

https://www.universalhub.com/2018/developer-says-large-units-proposed-boylston An old article, but according to the developer they decided to go with only 108 massive units rather than 200-300 more traditional sized units to reduce the amount of parking needed.

I'm gonna take the over on this one.

This is disappointing. But, really it would have been more shocking if this actually got off the ground. Air rights projects should just be viewed as fun little pipe dreams on par with relocating Logan to allow skyscrapers in the Seaport.

Thanks for the update. That's great news. That is a lot more units than the currently advertised 146 condo/147 hotel. I assume at this point they would have to keep the previously approved building design. Maybe they're going micro or reporting the bedroom...

^^^ + Historical status + shadow laws + general NIMBYism = no 700 footer here https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2019/06/12/formerly-ywca-could-reap-sale-its-back-bay-building/YnqvJitZPV1vObg6FAMPYN/story.html BTW..don't know if this has been posted yet. But, it looks like Raffles...

The rederings are impressive and the architecture is very high quality. The question is how will these developments actually feel at ground level. Will they feel like active organic urban areas or a master planned development with underutilized open spaces and large retail footprints.

Seaport is pretty impressive from an amount of development perspective and from a change in built environment perspective. But, it is still kinda underwhelming from a street level experience. I still don't have a good feel for whether this will ultimately end up as a dynamic neighborhood or...