🔹 What's Happening With Project X?

HelloBostonHi said:
Anyone know what project this is for?

https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/1m1ns5x/what_are_these_huge_concrete_slabs_for_on
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I saw this on Reddit as well and thought it could either be a base for a smaller crane such as this...
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Or maybe due to the extents of the renovation it will be the base for a buckhoist, construction elevator.
 
Anyone heard anything about 819 beacon?

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It was approved in october 2021! Thats a long time ago now, might be a bad sign. This really needs to happen in order to fill in that large gap next to the air rights parcel and remove 1 more of the large lots that are left around fenway. Plus thats 446 more residential housing units!

819 Beacon Street | Bostonplans.org

Development Projects and Planned Development Areas (PDAs) that the Development Review division is coordinating.
www.bostonplans.org www.bostonplans.org
 
stick n move said:
Anyone heard anything about 819 beacon?

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It was approved in october 2021! Thats a long time ago now, might be a bad sign. This really needs to happen in order to fill in that large gap next to the air rights parcel and remove 1 more of the large lots that are left around fenway. Plus thats 446 more residential housing units!

819 Beacon Street | Bostonplans.org

Development Projects and Planned Development Areas (PDAs) that the Development Review division is coordinating.
www.bostonplans.org www.bostonplans.org
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I suspect Scape is exiting the Boston market. They initially came in with big promises of $1 billion to invest in student housing, got backlash on each one of their projects, of which only one made it out of the ground/opened. Combined with high construction costs and a pause in college attendance during COVID (even though they are not targeting the student housing market in Boston anymore), at this point, they must see that Boston/Cambridge/Somerville (premiere college cities) are not pro-housing and it's not worth dealing with the trouble we present.
 
I'm not sure where to post this; we don't have a Cambridge thread or a Central Square thread? Maybe we do; I couldn't find it.

The Gas Light Building in Central Square at 727 Massachusetts Avenue sold yesterday for $7.5 million. This is a two-story office and retail building undergoing (undergone?) a full facade restoration and I think a hotel addition on the top? (I couldn't find enough detail.)

Chevron Partners sold this after buying it for $14 million in 2017. Before that it was last sold in .. 1963.

The buyer is Aletheia Church. Their intent? No idea.
 
Does anyone know if there are updates on what is happening with 384-402 Boylston? They are having asbestos removal as of a week ago. All of the windows are covered, but I figured this would likely only be the case if there is something planned.
Would love to see something happen here, but aware of their complicated history.
 
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