IAG hearing on the 18th:
https://www.bostonplans.org/news-ca...-bromfield-street-impact-advisory-group-meeti
https://www.bostonplans.org/news-ca...-bromfield-street-impact-advisory-group-meeti
The BPDA's development review process continues to move along at a breathtaking pace: a mere 1,123 days after the project was proposed . . . there will be a public meeting to discuss it:
https://www.bostonplans.org/news-calendar/calendar/2023/11/28/11-21-bromfield-street-public-meeting
(In comparison: the John F. Kennedy presidency lasted 1,036 days)
You can and should sign up and oppose the project on the grounds that it is too short.Oh great another meeting for wealthy, older, white bostonians with a $4 million condo in the neighborhood to complain about how a 300ft building will RUIN their quality of life and create traffic in the downtown of America’s sixth largest urban core.
The meeting will be nothing but a joke, like always, if people don’t show up and fight for something bigger and better.
I did for Harbor Tower, idk if I can since I dont live in the City of Boston anymore. I totally would if we can get a group together to do this.You can and should sign up and oppose the project on the grounds that it is too short.
You can say you live wherever you think you’d be the most influential, or you can say nothing at all. It doesn’t matter. Say you live at 45 Province.I did for Harbor Tower, idk if I can since I dont live in the City of Boston anymore. I totally would if we can get a group together to do this.
What does age have to do with being pro or anti height? BIGOTolder, white bostonians
Or skin colorWhat does age have to do with being pro or anti height? BIGOT
Does anybody else think a substantial residential would work better to help activate this area outside of business hours? I imagine something like this, only with a modified base to incorporate the Payless building. They should propose something like this instead of a stumpy office building that completely walls off the good side of 45 Province. I'm sure in hindsight the affected parties at 45 Province would prefer this proposal over the current one.
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Does anybody else think a substantial residential would work better to help activate this area outside of business hours? I imagine something like this, only with a modified base to incorporate the Payless building. They should propose something like this instead of a stumpy office building that completely walls off the good side of 45 Province. I'm sure in hindsight the affected parties at 45 Province would prefer this proposal over the current one.
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I was told 25 or more years ago that those empty store fronts were owned by Drucker, who uses them as a tax write off. Anyone else hear this explanation? And yes, they've been empty since the fire in the LGBT center building years ago.I'll never understand the hype over Bromfield Street (Silvertone excluded). I probably missed the boat though. I went to Suffolk Law from 1998-2001 and there are storefronts on Bromfield that were empty when I started at Suffolk and are STILL empty today. I'm no retail expert but if you can't fill a storefront in nearly a quarter century, you're probably never going to fill them.
Shitty street level is a non-starter, regardless of what's on top. Good street level is exciting.I know this proposal had an uninspiring street-level, but this would've been one of the most exciting towers built in the US in the last couple decades.
Shitty street level is a non-starter, regardless of what's on top. Good street level is exciting.
The public meeting for this project is ongoing right now, and a lot of people have been thankfully expressing support for this project (so far).