And where does NS rail tunnel fit in to this 120 foot deep puzzle?
Under I-93. Northern Ave. is the insertion point from the South Station approach into the cleared space under the CA/T, Valenti Way the insertion point from the North Station approach. All in between it's under the highway, which is under the Greenway.
If adjacent building pilings don't foul I-93, they won't foul anything beneath I-93.
Sure, but the station was supposed to go around there. Although maybe that is a positive and they can say they are enabling a station to be built with access up through the building.
I think most observers think Central Station will be VE'd out of any NSRL project. Very costly for a questionable value connection.
There is an underground parking garage built next to the Potomac River in Washington. Not nearly as deep as Chiofaro's garage will be, perhaps five? levels. If the Potomac River goes into major flood, the design solution to the increase in hydrostatic pressure is to flood the bottom level of the garage, so the garage walls don't cave. That's with a 10' flood.
OK, time to shut it down again until we see a proposal.
Are people not allowed to discuss it? Why do you care?
Don Chiofaro loses fight on tower’s size, but waterfront war is just beginning
Sure, Chiofaro may have cleared a big hurdle in winning over City Hall last year when Mayor Marty Walsh gave his blessing for the developer to blow past waterfront guidelines and build up to 600 feet high.
But new opponents have joined the fight against the developer whose last major project was International Place. It’s no longer about placating the garage’s next-door neighbors, the residents of Harbor Towers.
Now the Aquarium is worried about construction that will drive away visitors and harm the health of its marine animals. The Conservation Law Foundation is raising concerns about the compromises City Hall is making on the amount of public open space. Then there is the influential Barr Foundation, which is warning that Boston waterfront is in “jeopardy” with parcel-by-parcel planning.
Without a specific design, however, it’s hard for those who don’t like Chiofaro’s $1 billion project to immediately shoot it down.
Aquarium’s pitch to developer Don Chiofaro: Help build ‘Blueway,’ we’ll back high-rises
The New England Aquarium may drop its challenge to Don Chiofaro’s bid to redevelop the neighboring Boston Harbor Garage if the two sides can agree to create a park that would stretch from the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway to the water’s edge.
The park, which would be part of a plan to open up dramatic views of the harbor, is a crucial piece of a broader vision that the aquarium expects to unveil Wednesday to a group that is advising city officials on planning that part of the waterfront. The aquarium is willing to move its stand-alone IMAX theater, which opened 15 years ago, to make the park possible.
This vision goes beyond the proposed open space, an area as long as 1,000 feet and up to 85 feet wide that aquarium officials refer to as “the Blueway.”
Chief executive Nigella Hillgarth would like to see the aquarium building’s size grow significantly in phases over the next decade or so as public amenities are added: a promenade, two restaurants, a man-made island.
Taken together, the project would represent the biggest physical changes to the facility since it opened in 1969.