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As I have noted many times in this thread, DivCo gave up on height when (after several attempts to break the triple shelf barrier restriction with the City of Cambridge) their requests were denied. TBH, I think a lot of folks in the City's management thought they could punt the site decision...

BNY Mellon is the largest global custodian (and has been for eight years), with $46.7 trillion AUC. SST, while AUC has declined a bit of late, nevertheless remains a solid second, trailing by $3.0 trillion... :) I agree that a Clipper Ship would have been gorgeous on that glass.

Feels right, @Equilibria. It reminds me of a spot where friends live in München (or one of the revitalized neighborhoods in Stuttgart).

It is also a treasure trove of anachronistic, though patchwork complementary, renovations. Among smaller firms, there are nods to the Bauhaus movement, while other groups highlighted hyper contemporary and classically "Don Draper" MCM. I have only seen a few nods to international modernism...

As of 1 October, REI (urban/small format) is open at Lechmere/Cambridge Crossing ... near the new metro station (not yet open).

Be careful, @kz1000ps. Unapproved drone overflights of active construction sites are a no no. Security and police have confiscated drones here and assessed very heavy fines. The "mobile patrols" look for folks and respond quickly (mostly because of a few couples who flew too close to workers...

For anyone interested, our urban format REI opened today (1 October). DivCo had announced 8 October, so most of us were surprised to see tents, hear jam, and receive (presumably post sportsing) ice cream. Maybe this store can find me a Cannondale Slate whose order got canceled due to COVID...

Two notes: 1) The Murphy Staircase is visible on both the satellite and standard overlay versions of GMaps. Sometimes it has disappeared due to work (although Maps isn't real time, zooming tends to show a blend of current and stale collages, depending on which area was imaged during...

@stick - We even have a swamp, aka, a *marsh*! Yes, elevation helps tremendously. Even though the footprint of the park hasn't changed since I came here in 2013, the drumlins (now with more waste water management!) and troughs improve it from almost every perspective (well, except for the...

Shouldn't be long now ... probably 1 - 1.5 months, based on recent commentary. Very much looking forward to filling the other section of Lot W. Cloud Boi was back (with its human, the owner of Lamp) a few times recently. SO CLOUD. In other news, Sunday night marked yet another wedding for The...

Spot on. From my perch I see folks with MoS and various Galleria store bags quite often. And that's *with* COVID. Even the Orange Line metro seems to be getting more love of late given the more noticeable connexion to the bridge (interestingly, it's more noticeable since it's so damn ugly now...

Hi, @bigpicture7: I have confirmed that Parcel U's roof screen will conceal the building's ventilation stacks. It sounds like the building will have dedicated wet lab space, in addition to an office buildout.

@bigpicture7 According to the building's debut presentation on 16 Sep 2020, the latter. When we hosted them, one of the questions was about "smoke stacks" (lol) and representatives said there wouldn't be any. BTW, during that presentation, several powerpoint slides I captured suggested...

During a recent DivCo event the hosts noted that nearly every building had at least 15 foot high floors, with some some more than that (they didn't say which). I don't have documents in front of me, but given the expected height of this building, I think we will see at least 15 feet between...

To be precise, the parking lot closed on 28 May and excavation began on 31 May. By the time Biz Journals published the article, one nearby roadway had been closed, road parking struck, the parking lot had been stripped, trenches dug, rebar forms sunk, and the slurry process begun. They are...

Lot I / 21 July 2021 As I noted in the master CX threat, Lot I earned a tree and flag this AM to signify the maximum height of its structural steel. The most visible work continues to be the erection of steel during the day and evening/night addition of the building's precast panels (the light...

Lot I / 21 July 2021 The apartment building earned a tree and flag this AM to signify the maximum height of the structural steel. Each evening, beginning ~1800hrs, the crane swings to life to install the building's precast panels (the light color surrounding/above the pool is nice, but the dark...

I will see if I can find out anything more about this. Considering that Sanofi plans to have a large presence in both buildings, I can see the need for easy movement, especially between floors. Speaking from experience in DC: these can be fugly, but quite useful/efficient. But ... ouch.

It is! And one can do so without a telephoto. Can be absolutely stunning at sunset.

It was ... they removed all of that from the northern drumlin when they built the restaurants at Lot W and installed the new rainwater flood control system for (non structural) CX. I documented some of that in 2017-2018 on this thread. They removed some from other areas, but none from the...