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Moving forward after the rezoning spurred by Harbor Garage https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/11/06/business/plans-condo-tower-hook-lobster-site-finally-move-forward/?outputType=amp&event=event25&__twitter_impression=true Edit: whoops, beat out by @12345

PNF confirms that 1 Cumberland is a goner.

Wild that every single peak in that photo was built in the last 5 years.

Wow, you’re having a foggy one in Boston today! Thought the webcams weren’t working at first. Yes, @eddy2698, many larger projects have webcams, that can be found from the developer or construction company’s website

Can someone explain this line of thinking to me? Let's ignore other motivations such as avoiding pushback against a 500 footer, and also assume that 500' does mean more units than 382'. MITIMCo is afraid that the number of units at this larger size would introduce a glut in the market. I...

+ Pedestrianize and landscape the first block of Portland St and you’re really in business!

Comparing the render to this angle of the existing conditions makes it appear that 1 Cumberland St. will be demolished.

Am I the only person who attends NFL games, but never tailgates? Sure it's popular, but I'm not sure it can be considered so inseparable from the act of watching football that urban stadiums never make sense

I’m not above a little bit of social media shaming.

When the program is described as “Research and development/office”, as it is here, does that mean it could be lab space? Are they leaving some wiggle room so that they can court biotech and non-biotech tenants?

I feel like the tone looked slightly warmer, yellower in the renders? Perhaps they had all conveniently been golden hour shots. Either way looks good. The architect also posted this material sample back in April, which I'm not sure was previously shared here:

And with that, all retail space has been removed.

There's at least one US-based developer currently building 636 units of genuine zero-parking housing, on a similar sized parcel (16 acres), in a setting that is similarly car-oriented save for the light rail station that abuts the development site: The Culdesac project in Tempe. Sure, the Tempe...

Seems like the trend in East Boston is to have cartoonishly large address numbers.

Isn't everything depicted in the video amenities for residents and not open to the public? If you instead mean that you're moving in, congrats and consider me jealous!

I wish they would do something remotely urban with the site! Give Maitland St. a proper streetwall. Fenway Center is building retail on the corner of Maitland and David Ortiz Dr. Instead of placing the loading area opposite of it, they should hide it by the garage entrance and allow that whole...

Given that it's smack dab between campus and the GAP (Gardner, Ashford, and Pratt), I wouldn't be surprised if this building ends up being nearly entirely filled with BU students. Probably could get away with zero parking.

There are those accents I was asking for. I wish there was a bit more depth, that the undersides weren't completely flush, but I think the color choice plays very nicely with the surrounding brick buildings.

Going to be very interesting to see this thing after a heavy snowstorm.

Wow, apologies for the momentary derailment, but when I opened this thread it opened to the converastion from a few months back about MBTA bus spottings in NY and Wisconsin. Instead of being shipped somehow, busses are simply driven from the manufacturer to their destination. Three years ago, I...