🔹 What's Happening With Project X?

Just google Atlantic Wharf archboston it was documented start to finish its pretty interesting.

Edit: Nevermind once again more history demolished thanks to photobucket. I hope whoever runs that place is living in a trash can, the history they deleted is more important than they were, nice job guys. Anyways they braced the walls and gutted the interior, then dug down and built it pretty much like a normal building but just had to tie it in to the old structure. It was built similar to how the Hearst tower in NYC was constructed.
 
Sorry if I'm missing something, but this is a competition, correct? The city is going to choose a few to actually follow through with. Interesting building, nonetheless. I'd love to see it put up.
 
stefalarchitect said:
Sorry if I'm missing something, but this is a competition, correct? The city is going to choose a few to actually follow through with. Interesting building, nonetheless. I'd love to see it put up.
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It looks like these are RFI's to all different projects. I only saw one other that mentioned 26 Court St. It's actually the 2nd file, "Copy of Barnet..."

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1tGZHp4r9Yze4cpL3kJC2xNovWw0Vrcgb

One of the interesting ones is Trinity, 4th from the end. It looks like it's bringing back that residential tower by the BMC, possibly even taller!

Copy of Midwood, 13th entry shows conceptual diagrams for a building across from Liberty Mutual on Columbus

Noteworthy for their weirdness:
World Homes, 2nd from the End
Copy of Makoto, 12th entry
 
Good points.

Beton Brut said:
That's quite handsome, and a Boston-rarity -- a tall building that actively asserts its height.

I'm curious about the state of the interior of 26 Court Street. As a City-owned property, I'll guess that it's been modified unsympathetically, at least since the BPS took over occupancy in the late 60s. Here's an interesting piece from three years ago on the history of this site.



Not exactly:




Perhaps, but is it any worse than what we see in Winthrop Square?
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stick n move said:
I really hope this gets a massive redesign....which is usually par for the course anyways. Wasnt as big of a deal with Copley tower but with that gone this now needs to be much better. They slipped 40 trinity in the render as well, I think that starts in the spring if my memory serves me right.
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Really: I love this design for the Seaport. Not sure on the ground floor because I didn't realize it was an above parking garage.
 
I'm not sure where to post this, so I'll post it here. The recent sale of 27-29 Stuart St. could lead to another tower on the other side of Jacob Wirth from the AVA apartments. From Banker & Tradesman:

Rose Zhao, partner at Hemisphere Development, said the company is exploring redevelopment options for the Theater District property, which contains a 10,540-square-foot commercial building.

Marketing materials prepared by Colliers International Boston showed a potential 18-story residential tower built on the 2,091-square-foot lot, which would require zoning relief under the Midtown cultural subdistrict’s 65-foot height limit. Other developers have obtained approvals for high density projects in the neighborhood in recent years, including AvalonBay Communities’ 29-story Ava Theater District apartment tower at 45 Stuart St.
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Mods

Please combine old Harbor Garage thread with new Harbor Garage thread and reopen. It's an actual real project; not a mystifying rumor. A significant number of hurdles have been leaped in the 20 months that have passed since the thread was closed. An Article 80 announcement is coming soon....

thanks.
 
BeeLine, have you stopped taking your comprehensive photo sets? They're the best way to track development in the city.
 
i took an asston yesterday.... i'm just too lazy to post em.

Moxy seems to have slowed to a trickle.
 
cjbski said:
WSJ article on Amazon in Boston: https://www.wsj.com/articles/boston-wants-amazon-but-is-there-room-1526898426
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"Boston Wants Amazon, but Is There Room?"

Seriously who wants Amazon in Boston? I have not heard one local resident happy about Amazon coming to Boston. I actually hear more complaints on what type of incentives are we giving this billion dollar corporation now?
#1 Which will only add to more expensive housing.
#2 Traffic Gridlock everywhere.

I welcome any company that will pay full price and offer incentives to help the local markets in Boston.
But the deals like
Liberty Mutual
GE
JPM
Vertex (Fallon)
Millennium partners
Have been nothing but looting the working class Bostonian's and driving up overall costs on the taxpayers infrastructure along with gaming our free capitalistic society against other business's.

I welcome a tax incentive if it makes sense to better the overall situation and help our community but what went on with the Seaport is insane.
Does the locals enjoy the Seaport? It seems there aren't many that hang out down there.
 
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https://boston.curbed.com/boston-development/2018/2/27/17056152/boston-tall-buildings-why-none

golemboy said:
.....the prevailing attitude among'st Bostonians it seems, is to revile and shun the high rise – anything in this City proposed to be over 200 FT in height brings out the rabid anti-high rise rabble foaming at the mouth in screaming zealot opposition. I am not stating that Boston SHOULD have a plethora of buildings over 700 FT in height, but for the City to expand economically, while maintaining adequate OPEN SPACE, the City needs to go vertical. Unfortunately, Boston still maintains a large contingent of anti-business/anti-growth socialist-leaning individuals who feel that Boston should eschew large-scale structures, inclusive of high rise buildings; yet the very same group gripes about the LACK OF OPEN SPACE. Sorry Hippies, you cannot house a growing population in 6-10 story buildings at best while preserving open space and parkland – AND NOTE!!!, I do like parks, I like the FENS, I like the Common, I love the Public Gardens too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But as for you anti-high rise ultra LEFTO'S out there, GET REAL and GET LOGICAL!!! The only way way to preserve OPEN SPACE is to GO VERTICAL……something that you apparently fail to grasp in your Student Revolutionary Brigade-stuck minds. I rest my case. And no, I do NOT support the DONALD in any way....
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Building tall buildings for rich people apparently is how you house a growing population lol. Im sorry but if you want to talk about failing to grasp things the basic reality is that luxury developments are left mostly empty by rich people with other homes who want to use them as investments, while driving up rents by encouraging speculation and price gouging in the area around it. They do absolutely fuck all to house any semblance of a reasonable cross section of the population and directly contribute to the displacement of the people who actually make the city function. the idea that you cant house a growing population with the height and density of cities more densely populated and with more open space (like Berlin) is really just a naked shilling for developers and the complete handing over of our city to be a sterile playground for the rich.

You all act like you are so much smarter then everyone else but you really just parrot whatever fucking bullshit the capitalist class wants you to without any ability to think critically about the contradictions present in this society.
 
Well at least one of the last three posts was worth reading, but only one.
 
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