I'm confident the revenue from the billboard outweighed the increased vacancy/lower rents from the units behind it when they completed the feasibility studies. However ignorant this looks, there was careful consideration to the bottom line and a little too much confidence in the Boston housing...
I can't tell from the article preview/paywall - is this a teardown of the existing garage w/ a new build, conversion of the existing garage to lab space, or an addition of lab space on top of the existing garage a la 22 Boston Wharf Road?
I've been updating the maps for the greater Boston area for about the past year and a half on SkyscraperPage but their admins are pretty slow to implement building requests. I have a document prepared with about another 20-25 buildings to request before Boston is up to date but it gives a nice...
Did this get a height reduction? Last time I checked it was 297' tall:
via: https://s3.amazonaws.com/ifa.somervillema.gov/documents/planning/2019_0809_DSPR_D2.3%20Building%20Drawing%20Set-Update.pdf
Looks like it was just poor wording in the BLDUP article. The building will be 12 stories total, including the parking garage, and still be 185'. New renderings came with the latest resubmission though and the details looks promising!
via: SMMA, Hood Park LLC, BPDA...
There must be a lot of demand for space here considering 12 floors of lab is over double the original 5 that was proposed. If the floor to floor heights remain the same we'll be looking at a 19 storey building around 327' tall here.
No doubt the design took a step back but the quality of the materials looks better now. I know renderings can be deceiving but there's Curved Glass® instead of the segmented panels shown in the previous option.
A glass box is fine by me if the timber framing will be visible from the exterior as shown. This would be the largest timber framed building in Massachusetts, right?