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Breaking up the building also creates more opportunity for leasable square footage. The buildings design would make for very deep ground floor slots which otherwise would create a lot of dead space. When we factor in the access to parking and loading docks, we would end up with a very dead...

My wife grew up in Plymouth and the Pinehills is its own world as Lrfox mentioned. In lieu of traditional sidewalks there are the nature trails, but that is really about it. Plymouth as a whole is suburb of Boston and a place I would never say is "urban" outside of the main street and waterfront...

Saying it is walkable to the town center is a little misleading. The Pinehills have their own "town center" and this development is sitting right in the middle of it The Pinehills Town Center is 8.5 to 10 miles from Historic Plymouth downtown. Seeing as the Plymouth Commuter Rail station...

If I had to guess, I would expect it to be left open. The locomotives of the commuter rail would make any finished product nearly impossible to maintain other than black soot, so essentially we would get the same thing but on a flat surface rather than utility looking. I don't think they should...

IMHO,, any expansion of the Convention Center should try to find a way to incorporate the Postal Service Operations. Whether we are looking at subterranean levels for sorting and office space above ground floor, not really sure. But i think that would serve the site well along with other uses on...

Thanks for sharing. This solution would be such a clean solution. In reality, this still shows remnants of the Bowker overpass at the Back Bay Fens intersection. Just let Boylston Street meander over to Mass Ave and let that be the primary eastern connection to Storrow. I don't think the...

I'm confused why folks are calling the white cladding "plastic" or "discount materials". The white cladding is Alpolic Cladding which is Aluminum Composite Metal (ACM). This is high quality products that are used extensively on new builds (and is most certainly NOT cheap). And at least there is...

Type IV is not necessarily Cross Laminated Timber (CLT). It is part of the Type IV construction type, but as king_vibe alluded to, Type IV is specific for heavy timber in general which is much larger members that are still combustible, but have much different burn characteristics then light...

From an urban perspective, I am liking the DREAM-Onyx proposal better. The Trinity Financial one is more straightforward, but the amount of surface space for cars cutting through the site, especially on the east end of the parcel, bugs me. Also the fact that Trinity has one more curb cut on to...

Not sure why Quincy would do this without any activation around it. I would think a developer could do something like this. The blue area could be a garage (go below grade and above grade), the red outline could be ground floor activated commercial (IHOP, Urgent Care could be possible tenants?)...

As a WIT grad (Class '11), I can attest that WIT is doing lots of good things. As a native New Englander living in the south, watching WIT's progress from afar is really encouraging. I really hope they are maintaining all the land ownership because that land is sooooo freaking valuable as we...

Really like the emphasis paid to the bike parking. Would've hoped to have more than one fix-it stand or bike wash, but baby steps.

Curtain wall install has begun on the State Street side of the addition

My bad, I shouldn't have used that reference. I really just wanted to give the impression of a blank wall, and I know how the aB forum has expressed their love for that wall over time. My original point was to say that you don't always need fire rated curtain wall, as long as there is a...

I agree entirely! I worked on the new Johnson and Wales building and we ended up using rated curtain wall in A LOT of places. The stairs came out awesome! If i remember correctly though, technically you only need curtain rated glass if it is within 15'-0" of another glazing system (curtain...

Re: Parcel P-12 | Chinatown Just as an FYI, as someone who has been going to the community meetings for this project, this project will get done. a lot of the talk on the street is MP is going to be partnering with community groups to bring their affordable units from Winthrop Tower here (as...

Thanks for the update Beeline. Crazy to think how narrow this site actually is!

The new building portion of this project has sprouted. It’s been climbing out of the ground fairly quickly now that they’ve started vertical.

Don’t know how I’ve missed this, but a new sweetgreen location has opened up on the first floor of the 60 State Street building.

Re: Millennium Tower (Filene's) | 426 Washington Street | Downtown Not that I am a fan of the shadow laws, but if I understand them correctly, all the buildings casting shadow in this image are within the Midtown Cultural District and are therefore exempt from the shadow laws. Can anyone...