🔹 What's Happening With Project X?

I don't think so considering the signage came down when the company moved.
 
Anyone know what is going on with the bridge they were building to cross storrow? I haven't seen any work on it in like 6 months just a big concrete mass fenced off on the esplande.
 
I couldn't find the thread for the BPL renovation. I just visited after 3 years away (now in Tampa). Wow! What a transformation and so colorful, artistic, and a feeling of texture. The spaces function so differently now and who knew that one day one would not only be able to talk above a whisper in a library but also eat! Kudos to the architects and designers (though I don't understand the stone tables on Boylston...barriers against car bombs?)
 
Amazon is coming to fort point. Saw it on the news no link for ya, but either way good news.
 
any update on artists for humanity?

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Padre Mike said:
I couldn't find the thread for the BPL renovation. I just visited after 3 years away (now in Tampa). Wow! What a transformation and so colorful, artistic, and a feeling of texture. The spaces function so differently now and who knew that one day one would not only be able to talk above a whisper in a library but also eat! Kudos to the architects and designers (though I don't understand the stone tables on Boylston...barriers against car bombs?)
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As I understand, the table is just there for people to use--it's been called a community table. It's probably stone for functional reasons--it will hold up and is harder to damage. In good weather there are often people around it.
 
I apologize if this was already discussed - I'd been away from the aB site from a couple of weeks while traveling. A quick thread search didn't reveal it...

Anyway, apparently the infamous Barnes&Noble building in DTX just sold??

Colliers International will be in charge of identifying and securing suitable retail and office tenants for DTX 399. The property has been vacant for 10 years and will undergo a major facelift this summer.

https://www.cpexecutive.com/post/downtown-boston-asset-trades-for-63m/

Located along the heavily trafficked Washington Street corridor, the building—now rebranded as DTX 399—is often referred to as the “Barnes & Noble building”.
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DTX 399 will undergo a major facelift, expected to commence in the summer of 2017. The redevelopment will maintain several existing attributes while juxtaposing a sleek, contemporary flare to the street and second levels of the building, and implementing a complete overhaul of both interior and exterior building systems.
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If this info belongs elsewhere and/or connects to an in-progress discussion, let me know and I'll delete/move it...
 
bigpicture7 said:
I apologize if this was already discussed - I'd been away from the aB site from a couple of weeks while traveling. A quick thread search didn't reveal it...

Anyway, apparently the infamous Barnes&Noble building in DTX just sold??

Colliers International will be in charge of identifying and securing suitable retail and office tenants for DTX 399. The property has been vacant for 10 years and will undergo a major facelift this summer.

https://www.cpexecutive.com/post/downtown-boston-asset-trades-for-63m/



If this info belongs elsewhere and/or connects to an in-progress discussion, let me know and I'll delete/move it...
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Thanks. This was covered in the Downtown Crossing thread. With a rendering in this post:

http://www.archboston.org/community/showpost.php?p=297916&postcount=3152
 
For lack of a better thread:

Demolition has started for 32 Cambridge St project right off Sullivan Square.
 
Any updates on that big hole over at Broad Street on the Greenway?
 
Two projects in DTX where the developer secured a package of development rights from BPDA and/or ZBA but is apparently throwing in the towel for whatever reason and selling to some other more enthusiastic developer, per the rumor mill:

171 Tremont St.:

(https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3533221,-71.0643376,3a,75y,57.08h,94.42t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxXn6112ffLxsslM5DLW3og!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)

Original developer got approvals nearly a year ago... and it's just sat fallow.

And, the 13-19 Congress St. component of Congress Sq.

(https://www.google.com/maps/@42.358467,-71.0566669,3a,75y,212.13h,108.01t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1slOzZS59-LYqi0F492zwhqA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)

This one's kind of weird in that the rest of the Congress Sq. project is blazing along, of course,... so it's like there's this unloved chubby little boy with freckles sitting in the corner. Hopefully the gap between its redevelopment and the rest of Congress Sq. doesn't stretch on for too many years.
 
Great gossip. How to make money in real estate (in Boston)? Sit through 2 years of community meetings, gain approval, then sell the rights to build to another developer. Worked amazingly at Seaport Square, with Morgan Stanley walking away with $370 million. (I forget the actual #s.)
 
JohnAKeith said:
Great gossip. How to make money in real estate (in Boston)? Sit through 2 years of community meetings, gain approval, then sell the rights to build to another developer. Worked amazingly at Seaport Square, with Morgan Stanley walking away with $370 million. (I forget the actual #s.)
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Our officials are giving prime waterfront land away to Billion dollar corporations.

Only for the first time buyers to face this:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/busines...-first-time/rVsP7BwWZCtKwP9BqZQOKJ/story.html
 
Any word on groundbreaking for Martin's Park? It was supposed to happen by June.
 
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