Quotes from article:
"citizenM is also planning a second Boston location by 2022"
"Hilton said it plans to open its micro hotel brand, called Motto, in Boston as well"
The delay seems to be pretty manageable- comes from a combination of design not moving as quickly as predicted and the need to put the drainage line in before moving the CR tracks. Contaminated soil is everywhere -> that got delayed -> problems with the critical path. But the parts that aren't...
It's a somewhat boring infill building that also happens to add 300ksf of office space to the core. Not the most exciting type of project, but one that's valuable for the city
Is there anything unusual about 88 Seaport? it seems to be waiting on a tenant, and as the final office plot left in Seaport Square, that probably won't take long. Has anything heard anything about the residential buildings (L3, L5, N, G)?
This was obviously a statement about disparate impact, and arguing that the fraction of artists that is white is higher than the fraction of BMR housing qualified people that is white is extremely plausible.
I wish there was more of an attempt at an active streetwall with retail on the WTC Ave side, but other than that, build this yesterday. A-2 and P will be the keys to linking the two elevations of the Seaport together
Hooray for boring, slightly ugly development on the urban fringe! If there were 10x more of these projects, the housing market would be in much better shape
This seems impressively urban (narrow streets, reasonable job hiding parking) for an area that was previously 100% auto oriented. Hopefully more projects are on the way
"Taxpayers" aren't paying for the "cost" of additional market rate development adjacent to public housing, because A: that's the whole point of the new financing mechanism and B: the cost is negative. What?