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    Hotel Buckminster Renovation | Brookline Ave & Beacon St | Kenmore Square (Fenway)

    https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/11/03/business/historic-kenmore-square-hotel-is-poised-become-lab-space/ Hopefully the historic hotel can be renovated / restored, and the garage space further down Beacon can be tied into IQHQ's abutting air-rights project. I don't want to see this become...
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    409 Huntington Ave | The Fenway

    Per BBJ, Tremont Asset Management is planning to do a facadectomy at 409 Huntington Ave (next to the MFA across from Northeastern), turning 5-stories of apartments into 19-stories of apartments.
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    Residential / Executive Suites | 601 Newbury St | Fenway / Kenmore

    Eighty-five unit (36 apartment + 49 "executive suite") development proposed for 601 Newbury St, looking over the Pike just off of Brookline Ave behind Kenmore Square, where the old Art Institute of Boston building is now. Another Khalsa Design Special; these are all over the place in Somerville...
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    The Beacon | 819 Beacon St. | Fenway

    There has been some discussion of this lot on Beacon St over in the Children's IMP thread, but now that it has a real proposal on its own right I think it's time for its own thread. Scape now has development rights, and their massive PDF Project Impact Report (349 pages, 169 mb) for 1252-1270...
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    Councilor Wu's Proposal To Abolish The BPDA (65-pp. report)

    This could really go either way. Replacing the BDPA with a "community-focused" approval process that would end up getting nothing approved in practice (see: San Francisco) would be a negative. But taking away power from the BPDA by liberalizing zoning (see: Minneapolis) and giving out fewer...
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    Hotel Project (Current Shell Station) | 1241 Boylston St | Fenway

    Eight story 184-room hotel with a ground-level independent restaurant. 82 off-street parking spaces located on one below-grade level. Maximum height of ninety (90) feet. BPDA Letter of Intent (pdf) Boston Business Journal Bldup Earlier aB discussion
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    One Post Office Square Makeover and Expansion | Financial District

    I wasn't sure where to put this: From Twitter (BBJ's Catherine Carlock): "These developers want to transform Boston's One Post Office Square tower from concrete to glass." [article behind paywall] yuck.
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    Real Estate Professional & Contractor Recommendations (in real life)

    I'm seriously considering putting my money where my mouth is and developing a small single-family infill property. There's a particular piece of land that I've had my eye on, and I've been in preliminary discussions with the owner about selling it. Does anybody have a recommendation of a good...
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    BPDA Model Room

    Go Check Out This Crazy Accurate 1:40-Scale Model of Boston No way that model is 1:40, maybe 1 inch : 40 feet.
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    SEO Spam

    oh wow really???
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    Boston Building Signage

    Globe: Office tower signs draw scrutiny from city officials I know we've discussed building signage before as it relates to specific developments, but couldn't find any discussion about signage in general. This BRA approach seems sensible to me. Thoughts?
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    Tufts Development Projects

    Tufts broke ground on a few significant projects this spring and has plans drawn up for one more major development in the future, so I thought it might be time for a Tufts-specific development thread (all the other schools have 'em!). Central Energy Plant (CEP): The CEP is a new co-generation...
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    Norman B. Leventhal

    Norman B. Leventhal, developer who shaped Boston’s skyline, dies at 97

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