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I believe this isn't even the façade's final form, since all of the renderings show red cladding. Aren't those horizontal lines anchors for the cladding?

Yup, probably going to be some low ceilings in that lab space! The floor-to-floor height of a steel-framed lab building is typically at least 15', with a 5-6' drop ceiling to accommodate mechanicals. Office buildings have both lower floor-to-floor heights and lower drop ceilings.

Snappy new website for the building: https://www.100chestnutstreet.com/

U-Haul withdrew their proposal at yesterday's ZBA meeting. We'll see what they come back with, if anything.

So it's officially being renamed from 28 Chestnut to 100 Chestnut? The official North River/Leerink site has always been https://www.28chestnut.com. As erom says, the tracks form a hard boundary. I think this is just a clueless journalist conflating the two — note that the article calls the...

Sure enough, test trains are now running on the Medford Branch!

The toll on the Ted Williams ($1.75) is higher than the Tobin toll ($1.25) though.

That is an absurd detour. Guess they're purposefully trying to (mis)direct people away from the Ted Williams?

I've not seen them either. Has this been approved, or are these plans merely theoretical? I looked up the deed to the property and it does not appear to have changed hands. Inside that white box is a data center. Seems a bit redundant given the much larger datacenter in the Inner Belt, though...

Signals are operational on the Medford Branch just south of the East Somerville station: This must mean test trains will be running shortly! IIRC signals were activated on the Union Square branch about a month before test trains started rolling.

Planned construction schedule presented at a recent community meeting: It always amazes me how complex the internals of lab buildings are—it takes roughly the same amount of time to finish the interior as it does to do everything else!

Curiosity got the better of me, and I asked the developer about the billboard. They confirmed that there are no plans to remove it!

In addition, ready mix concrete needs to be prepared at most ~45 minutes away from the job site or it will start to cure and harden inside the truck. This location is pretty much the only feasible place for a concrete plant guaranteed to be within 45 minutes of downtown construction sites during...

The sheer featurelessness of the façade makes it look like a cheap computer rendering in both these photos. I had to do a double take that these were actually real photos!

According to the initial terms, in order to build at the desired size in the first place, the developer USQ had to (among other things) contribute ~$5.8MM to the (now refunded) money that Somerville was required to spend towards the GLX: I have no idea what happened to that payment after...

Is it just me, or is the color matching on the precast panels really inconsistent? I've circled a couple of the more egregious examples: Is this from shadows due to the (temporarily) misaligned panels? Dirt on the panels? Or just inconsistent pigmentation of the concrete?

I was thinking that, but it would need to be much larger than it currently is to have the same visibility to cars passing by on I93. Building a structure on the roof to accommodate a much larger billboard seems like a fairly major construction undertaking at a point this late in the build...

I believe the billboard is there to stay. From an April 2019 Boston Civic Design Commission meeting: > Commission member: Why did you choose to relocate the billboard onsite? > Developer: We were able to negotiate the long-term lease of the billboard to some extent, but we can’t build a...

I recently chatted with some construction workers surveying Squire's Bridge, which carries McGrath over the commuter rail and Union Square branch GLX tracks by Twin City Plaza. They said that the retaining wall on the southeast side is in really poor shape, and may require significant...

Ah, you are right. Indeed, the LOI specifically says they are working with the Owens, who own parcel 0202150000, but not with Spice Parking who owns the lots on Spice Street. In that case, I'd expect an entrance to be on Cambridge Street, right next to the I93 offramp. It seems silly to call...