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Re: Residences at 399 Congress St (formerly Madison Seaport Hotel) 399 Congress is back on track. Residential, 414 units w retail and below-grade parking. http://boston.siretechnologies.com/sirepubbra/mtgviewer.aspx?meetid=236&doctype=AGENDA

Re: The Boston Arch (Aquarium parking garage) Disagree. State (EEA, DEP, CZM) provide Boston with an extraordinary opportunity to customize the waterfront for significant development, not preservation. That's the purpose of a Municipal Harbor Plan. But since we're talking about filled...

Re: Innovation Dist. / South Boston Seaport While the Herald covers the chapel groundbreaking, the project is actually the office building (above left) and chapel. The two buildings are connected by a passageway. For better or worse, the passageway from office building to chapel block one of...

Re: Innovation Dist. / South Boston Seaport In addition to below-grade parking at nearly every new construction site, I think this will be the 3rd above-grade garage approved or built in past few years. 1. Channel Center (970 spaces) 2. D St at West 1st St (1,350 spaces) BCEC land, eminent...

Agree. Surprised by what seemed like arm-twisting during today's deliberations. Livestream at: http://massgaming.com/news-events/live-stream-and-video/

Re: The Boston Arch (Aquarium parking garage) Not sure it's relevant to your conversation but... IIRC, Mr. Chiofaro stated at the MHP meeting in July that he could sell the garage today for $180M, $30M more than the purchase price.

Re: The Boston Arch (Aquarium parking garage) Chapter 91 won't stop this project, or force a squat stump to be built, or require the site to be 50% open space. That's why the State allows for the filing of Municipal Harbor Plans and that's why this MHP is under way. In the same regard an MHP...

Re: Innovation Dist. / South Boston Seaport Earlier considered. The architect of the chapel on Parcel H is ADD Inc. The chapel (in final stages of approvals) is no longer free standing. It is attached to an office building also designed by ADD Inc. on Parcel H.

Re: Innovation Dist. / South Boston Seaport Confused as to why Parcels B and C are routinely referred to as residential blocks, a characterization made most frequently by Seaport Square's Master Developer. Was the following program showing 33% as residential recently amended? Source...

The difference as I see it is that BCEC's D Street frontage (aside from loading docks) was/is completely compatible with active uses. Furthermore this edge was planned (while BCEC was a known entity) as an active edge. IIRC, Cooper Robertson --aware of BCEC's arrival, identified D Street as the...

S. Station Atlantic Ave frontage is 300'. BCEC D Street frontage is 1200'. Post-expansion it is 1900'. Worth mentioning (unconfirmed) that S. Station now has an entrance to CVS mid-block. As for the entire length down past bus terminal, there are numerous "doors on the street" and entrances for...

South Station presents 300' of frontage on either side of its main entrance. BCEC's D Street frontage alone is 1,200'. After expansion BCEC's D Street frontage will be 1,900 feet — 3 times the distance across South Station's entire curved streetwall. I recently asked BCEC to publish it's...

I did not attend, I received a report. No funding source has been identified. No new design elements since last meeting (Oct 2013). Draft plan is available on BRA site. I'll mention that the BRA's Crossroads Plan as it was announced after the drafting of the "Plan" from 2007-2008 was...

As of tonight's BRA meeting, no funding source for those Summer St sidewalk improvements have been identified. Same goes for the Summer Street bike tracks that were announced to great fanfare in 2013. Or a bevy of "Crossroads Initiatlve" improvements that have been routinely announced since...

Re: The Boston Arch (Aquarium parking garage) The project has not been filed for approval at the BRA, nor has it been filed for State approval. Responsibility for each of these repeated "songs-and-dances" rests with the BRA. The BRA has been using single projects (and respective developers)...

IIRC, BCEC's loan to the museum was $18M.

An "experiment" costing $1.1M for 1.5 summer seasons. Can someone explain what the "experiment" is that I'm missing? Or do we justify the cost by pretending it is an experiment? http://bostonherald.com/business/real_estate/2014/08/mcca_plays_up_11m_temporary_lawn_on_d Meanwhile, it's been...

The park appears in recent renderings.

These are State surcharges. The City of Boston also financed a fraction of BCEC. This week Boston City Councilors confirmed during the Uber discussion that revenue from taxi medallion sales are/were used in the financing of BCEC. I suspect that at least some hand-wringing over Uber regulation...

Re: The Boston Arch (Aquarium parking garage) Glass arcade is a non-starter, MassDEP already signaled as much. I mentioned that Chiofaro has not filed a project for approval, the current process is to win approval for massing. That's why developer (and BRA) ignores FAA/Massport guidelines...