🔹 What's Happening With Project X?

I was looking for something else and came across 425 washington st (parsons crossing) in Brighton. It was approved in 2016 and then theres been 0 updates after that. Anybody know anything about this? It was supposed to be residential above a grocery store, doesnt look bad.

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http://www.bostonplans.org/projects/development-projects/parsons-crossing-425-washington-st
 
Any update on the Market Place Center proposal? Is it dead? I hope this doesn't get built in the current iteration of the design.

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^Ha, I totally forgot about this. Wasn't this floated around a few years ago?
 
type001 said:
^Ha, I totally forgot about this. Wasn't this floated around a few years ago?
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2021:

Marketplace Center | Quincy Market | Downtown

PNF: https://bpda.app.box.com/s/apsc6h4i7qbj513vpgla4pgnq3ygtnir Recommend that we merge the prior thread with a non-standard title: https://archboston.com/community/threads/office-expansion-planned-for-marketplace-center-at-faneuil-hall.6498/ Globe...
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DZH22 said:
I'm pretty sure the CLF lawsuit that threw out the Harbor Plan and stopped the Aquarium Garage tower in its tracks affected this one too. I'll be surprised if anything ever gets built here in most of our lifetimes.
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Yes, you are correct (on both counts, sadly; I'm pushing 50, so I'm hoping maybe in my child's lifetime?).
 
Looks like another mega project on Dot ave.

During the quarter, we closed on assets totaling $17.2 million inclusive of 99 A Street in the Seaport, which executive management deemed to no longer be strategic due to its one off profile and our pivot to 285, 299, 307, 347 Dorchester Avenue acquired during the quarter, which is nearby with similar red line access, but has the scale to be a future mega campus.
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I wanted to ask about these three parcels on cambridge street. They both had buildings demolished in the last five years with nothing to replace them. Anyone have info on what happened?


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Image 1: Apparently used as construction staging for millers river apartments? Not sure why. It's currently a grass lot.
Image 2: ??
Image 3: 851 cambridge st burned down in 2019 link
 
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I wanted to ask about these three parcels on cambridge street. They both had buildings demolished in the last five years with nothing to replace them. Anyone have info on what happened?


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Image 1: Apparently used as construction staging for millers river apartments? Not sure why. It's currently a grass lot.
Image 2: ??
Image 3: 851 cambridge st burned down in 2019 link
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I don't know what's going on at 851 Cambridge Street, but for the first two image locations pretty soon the Grand Junction Pathway (bike and pedestrian path) will be built along the train tracks there which will connect the BU bridge to Somerville. More info here: https://www.cambridgema.gov/CDD/Projects/Transportation/GrandJunctionPathway
 
I don't see a general Harvard University projects page on here. I was scrolling through the Harvard Town Gown report from 2023. There's a new $100M building by Grafton Architects with Perry Dean Rodgers as the Executive Architect. It is around 100K square feet, near the existing Littauer Center. Based on the area of usable square footage there, at a conservative level, you can likely expect at least 3-4 stories. This project's been pretty quiet, but a groundbreaking for some early enabling work should be starting in the coming months ("Fall 2024"), so we should be expecting some design documents being posted somewhere sometime soon, I'd presume. That, or at least some renderings from a press-release. I'm interested to see what Harvard's architecture for new-construction on their "main campus" (not Allston) looks like. Grafton Architects has a pretty distinct look, and they use a lot of brick (and seemingly, stairs). Should be interesting.
 
stefal said:
I don't see a general Harvard University projects page on here. I was scrolling through the Harvard Town Gown report from 2023. There's a new $100M building by Grafton Architects with Perry Dean Rodgers as the Executive Architect. It is around 100K square feet, near the existing Littauer Center. Based on the area of usable square footage there, at a conservative level, you can likely expect at least 3-4 stories. This project's been pretty quiet, but a groundbreaking for some early enabling work should be starting in the coming months ("Fall 2024"), so we should be expecting some design documents being posted somewhere sometime soon, I'd presume. That, or at least some renderings from a press-release. I'm interested to see what Harvard's architecture for new-construction on their "main campus" (not Allston) looks like. Grafton Architects has a pretty distinct look, and they use a lot of brick (and seemingly, stairs). Should be interesting.
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I think most harvard projects end up in the enterprise research campus thread. From what you said it looks like this one will near the square? That's cool.
 
Longfellow said:
I think most harvard projects end up in the enterprise research campus thread. From what you said it looks like this one will near the square? That's cool.
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It will be on the Cambridge campus, across from Cambridge Commons, so not-so-close to Harvard Square, but still should be interesting.
 
stefal said:
I don't see a general Harvard University projects page on here. I was scrolling through the Harvard Town Gown report from 2023. There's a new $100M building by Grafton Architects with Perry Dean Rodgers as the Executive Architect. It is around 100K square feet, near the existing Littauer Center. Based on the area of usable square footage there, at a conservative level, you can likely expect at least 3-4 stories. This project's been pretty quiet, but a groundbreaking for some early enabling work should be starting in the coming months ("Fall 2024"), so we should be expecting some design documents being posted somewhere sometime soon, I'd presume. That, or at least some renderings from a press-release. I'm interested to see what Harvard's architecture for new-construction on their "main campus" (not Allston) looks like. Grafton Architects has a pretty distinct look, and they use a lot of brick (and seemingly, stairs). Should be interesting.
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An update on this: some time after this post, I walked by the site, and they had all the utilities and comms painted out. At least for a week now, the site has been fenced off, so I believe an early release package for site/utilities work has been initiated. I still don't see much new info online about this.
 
Kind of a vaguer inquiry than most, but: what's going on with Malden? I feel like they put up a lot of great TOD downtown around Pleasant and Exchange and then just....stopped? There are still plenty of underutilized lots and such in and around downtown (like this corner of Charles and Middlesex) but it doesn't seem like there's a single thing being built in the city in 2024. Very different than its neighbors like Somerville, Everett, and Chelsea. Was there a concerted effort made by City Hall to slow down growth?
 
Blackbird said:
Kind of a vaguer inquiry than most, but: what's going on with Malden? I feel like they put up a lot of great TOD downtown around Pleasant and Exchange and then just....stopped? There are still plenty of underutilized lots and such in and around downtown (like this corner of Charles and Middlesex) but it doesn't seem like there's a single thing being built in the city in 2024. Very different than its neighbors like Somerville, Everett, and Chelsea. Was there a concerted effort made by City Hall to slow down growth?
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Part of that is Malden does a terrible job of making documents publicly accessible, but I wouldn't say Malden is anti-development, but they've gotten most of the low-hanging fruit. That site in particular was originally planned for a Mass-Timber framed office building that got as far as foundation pours before being canceled during the pandemic - it's since been pivoted to a residential development that has a fully approved special permit, though I rather doubt it's still mass timber.

That said, the original office proposal required zero parking - thanks to some outdated ordinances in Malden, residential does, and they don't actually own the repair shop site.
Current Proposal:
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Prior Proposal:
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