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The rendering does such a good job of making this look pretty small from the helicopter view, but this building is going to be a BEAST.
The rendering does such a good job of making this look pretty small from the helicopter view, but this building is going to be a BEAST.
Yeah, she's gonna be a chubby one.
The trees that are on the building do not appear to be experiencing the same season as the trees surrounding the building.
Materiality will really help to visually break up the massing as long as the materials are of quality. Despite being one giant building, it reads as two because of the lightness of the bridge connection and two facade languages. The ground floor is also ridiculously active if they build it as designed.
also, i hope when they take down the mccarthy overpass they connect assembly with normal streets, rather than totally cut off other than the two entrances.
I think you may be confusing the McCarthy Overpass with the 93 overpass. Taking down the McCarthy will help knit the Union Square/Brickbottom/East Somerville area back together but won't impact access to Assembly.
was walking around there tonight and i have to say it still has quite a ways to go (i know much is to come)... there were a few people, but overall just felt like legacy place in dedham, but with streets. they're gonna need a lot more residential and "normal" retail - ie convenience stores etc - to make this not feel like a mall... definitely an area with a ton of potential, though.
also, i hope when they take down the mccarthy overpass they connect assembly with normal streets, rather than totally cut off other than the two entrances.
was walking around there tonight and i have to say it still has quite a ways to go (i know much is to come)... there were a few people, but overall just felt like legacy place in dedham, but with streets. they're gonna need a lot more residential and "normal" retail - ie convenience stores etc - to make this not feel like a mall... definitely an area with a ton of potential, though.
Kmart and the other Assembly Mall stores go a long way to being the "convenience store" (and a lot of other categories of corner store), but I get that it feels wrong because it is on the wrong side of an ocean of parking (even though, objectively, they've got way more variety than most "interesting" little stores)
Still, it isn't going to take much in the way of more "real" people (resident or Partners' workers) before you get retail to serve them. We've talked Trader Joe's, for example (even so, a slot in the Mall may make more sense)