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Shouldn't the fact that it went under be an indicator of future success?
 
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kennedy said:
Shouldn't the fact that it went under be an indicator of future success?
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Given that one of the teams calls itself the Yard Dawgz, I can only hope so.
 
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Celtics? Recent Winning Ways Haven?t Brought Much Green To Owners
Lack Of Arena Ownership To Blame For Pale Profits Compared To Peers


By Scott Van Voorhis

Banker & Tradesman Columnist
Today

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Wyc Grousbeck and his fellow Boston Celtics owners have certainly restored the Green to their old winning ways


http://www.bankerandtradesman.com/news138978.html

I am not a subscriber to Banker&Tradesman

Did I say the Celtics are getting screwed because of the concessions.
 
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This whole area could have been special. A modern looking arena with a few towers and a bold North Station facade. Guess they had to hurry to build something and name it after Tip O'Neill.
 
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All is not lost.

It took Toronto, which is in the midst of a building boom several times larger than Boston's seen in the past couple of decades, 11 years to get development around the Air Canada Centre up and running. The arena opened in 1999 and has only just now got an office tower (Telus Tower, which has opened) and a two-tower, hotel, residential and commercial complex (Maple Leaf Square, built and about to open.

Yes, it's sad that the ground around the TD Garden has remained a parking lot given that plans have been in the works since before the original Garden even came down, but the city is not unique in that aspect, and even less so when you consider the same has happened in development-happy Toronto.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/TorontoPano.jpg

The Air Canada Centre is just out of view however the 10-storey office tower that houses the MLSE, parent group of the Maple Leafs, Raptors and Toronto FC soccer, is. Telus Tower is the glass tower with the spine of the CN Tower rising from behind it and Maple Leaf Square is directly to the left. Beyond those towers were greenfields and parking lots that are only now starting to be filled in. A few years ago this view would have been nothing but fallow ground and concrete.
 
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The last page of today's Metro has an article about this project. Don't have time to type it up or look for it at the moment if someone wants to find it.
 
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All I saw was an article for the Garden Garage project.
 
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Aye carumba (sic).

EDIT EDIT: It's the one to the side and behind the Garden. It's called the Nashua Street Residences and it is one tower. Here is the BRA page:

http://bostonredevelopmentauthority...projects.asp?action=ViewProject&ProjectID=943

From Banker & Tradesman:

Delaware North is selling its fully-permitted, 40-story residential project in the Bulfinch Triangle to luxury apartment developer AvalonBay, according to sources.

http://www.bankerandtradesman.com/news147856.html
 
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^^^^
I thought the city of Boston gave Delaware North this property for a discount so they would develop it?
 
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'Bout time they sold this to someone who actually wants to build something. If/when this goes up it will make a very noticable addition to the skyline.
 
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From the renderings I've seen, I think Avalon's Prudential Center tower could turn out to be all right ... but that's something of an exception for them.

Experience in other cities shows that they usually can be counted on to build crap. Hopefully anything that comes from them here will be more like their Prudential Center building and less like their projects in other places around the country.

... I'm not exactly sure how to obtain that outcome.
 
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TD Garden owner to sell development rights for apt tower
Boston Business Journal by Thomas Grillo
Monday, December 19, 2011


Deleware North, TD Garden’s owner, intends to sell its permits for a 37-story residential tower in the West End to Avalon Bay Communities, the Arlington, Va.-based developer of apartment communities with offices in Quincy, according to a source familiar with the deal.

Nashua Street Residences, a 375-unit residential community, is to be built on land behind the Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr. federal building and next to the TD Garden, down the street from the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and the Suffolk County Jail. In 2005, the Boston Garden Development Corp. won approval from the Boston Redevelopment Authority for the project.

Scott Dale, vice president of development for Avalon Bay, did not return a call seeking comment. Christopher Maher, Delaware North’s vice president of development, declined to be interviewed.

But a source familiar with the deal, which is expected to close with days, told the Business Journal Delaware North will use the proceeds of the sale to help fund its project slated for Causeway Street. The TD Garden owners have approval for a pair of 400-foot towers with 1 million square feet of apartments, office space, a hotel and ground-floor retail on the site of the former Boston Garden. Boston Properties , the developer of the $500 million Atlantic Wharf, is working with TD Garden owner Jeremy Jacobs to get the project started. Bryan Koop at Boston Properties did not return calls seeking comment.

Avalon is not the only developer with plans for what has been a shadowy part of the West End. Chicago-based Equity Residential wants to replace the Garden Garage across from the TD Garden with 500 new apartments by fall 2015. Under the $300 million plan filed with the BRA, the 710-space parking facility at 35 Lomasney Way off Martha Road would be replaced with two buildings. One would be a 21-story tower with 200 units and another, a 28-story tower with 300 units. An 850-space parking structure would be built underground. Redevelopment of the three-acre Garden Garage site would include demolition of the parking garage and a vacant one-story building once used as the Boston Children’s School Annex.


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Nashua Street Residences
Project Address Causeway Street, Nashua Street
Neighborhood Downtown
Uses Residential
Rental

Land Sq. Ft. 35,210 sq ft
Building Size 577,331 sq ft
Residential Units 375
Applicant Boston Garden Development Corp.
Project Description Proposal calls for 242 residential units and 270 parking spaces.
Last Updated 12/13/2011
^^^
From the BRA page.
Proposal calls for 242 units.... why does the above list it as 375 units?
 
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North Station area.........TD-Garden

Went to the game last night. Had some drinks at the Harp. The area is absolutely depressing how it has developed. I saw a big GIANT CVS across the street from the Garden. The rest of the area is a disgrace. Nothing of Substance to ever get me to hang around the area if I'm not going to the game.

They really need to get that area going with some character and sometype of Boston Vibe similar to a ( Bourbon Street New Orleans) We have the Celtics and the Bruins and they can't even come up with a vision.
It's time to remove the BRA from being the city planning agency.
 
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Did you walk down Portland, Friend and Canal streets off of Causeway? Those are solid streets with a good mix of residences, boutique hotels, and entertainment options. These streets of the Bullfinch Triangle were spared the West End wrecking ball and make it very obvious what the entire West End could have been today.

Despite what the BuTri (yes, I named it) has to offer, Causeway itself is a disgrace. The Tip O'Neil building, to put it mildly, hates fun and hulks menacingly like a faceless bureaucratic overlord that stretches halfway down the north side of the street. The other half of that side is the faceless Garden itself, a hulking wall with what's currently a no-man's-land setback (by 2050 there may be some sort of tower here). I'm going to agree with Rifleman. With so much potential and nearly year-round sporting use, Causeway is a mess.
 
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Shepard said:
Did you walk down Portland, Friend and Canal streets off of Causeway? Those are solid streets with a good mix of residences, boutique hotels, and entertainment options. These streets of the Bullfinch Triangle were spared the West End wrecking ball and make it very obvious what the entire West End could have been today.

Despite what the BuTri (yes, I named it) has to offer, Causeway itself is a disgrace. The Tip O'Neil building, to put it mildly, hates fun and hulks menacingly like a faceless bureaucratic overlord that stretches halfway down the north side of the street. The other half of that side is the faceless Garden itself, a hulking wall with what's currently a no-man's-land setback (by 2050 there may be some sort of tower here). I'm going to agree with Rifleman. With so much potential and nearly year-round sporting use, Causeway is a mess.
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Portland, Friend and Canal have always been okay. I do remember sometype of rehab center on Canal that continue to keep the area depressed. (BAYCOVE)Besides that they are solid streets but if they did use the wrecking ball for the entire area and redesigned it towards the Garden the right way with a better streetscape, the city could have had a crown jewel.

Maybe your right it's just Causeway Street and the surrounding buildings but it really sucks.

Can somebody on this board tell me what they can do to make this area more appealing for people to actually go visit besides going to the game?

Also didn't the city donate land to Delaware North Corporation to redevelop? Aka the (Jacob Buffalo Boys)
 
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I'm a huge proponent of putting an IMAX theater wherever possible in this city; the Garden might be a good place to start.

New England Sports Hall of Fame?
Nightclub(s)?
Cheesecake Factory-size restaurant?
Indoor amusement park? (i.e. roller coasters, thrill rides, other attractions for children. Boston is severely lacking in that department)
 
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They just need infill. With restaurants and retail, and housing above. the streets between north station and haymarket need to have the parking lots built on. hopefully, TD gets going on the parking lot in front of the garden. That gives North Station an new face to causeway, a stop and shop for the neighborhood, and 2 400ft residential towers to get people on the streets. That's all that's needed and the area will be great. Then eventually you can tear down the hulking government buildings in 10 years as the age, but the area can develop fine without them.

We don't need a cheesecake factory, rollercoaster, espn-zone or any other lame commercial crap so people that go to 1 game a year can eat the same terrible food before the game that they do in suburbs. I walk through the area everyday. Some of those buildings in bulfinch triangle are great. It has great character, great bones, and great potential, it just needs to add the meat. No disneyfication, suburban mall junk.
 
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Any new buildings that go up in the area and which have ground floor retail/restaurant space will seek or attract chains. That's just the way it is. Given that, something like an ESPN zone would work well in the neighborhood here.
 
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