I nominate the updated Riverside Station development proposal that passed. Major TOD replacing a huge parking lot and over one million square feet in Newton of all places. Huge win for the city and whole region.
Btw - folks should see the current proposal before they vote
There have been further tweaks in the past month as they go through the City Council process. Still looks effectively like this, though. The biggest change visually is to the tall office tower - that white/green box at the back (which was always a placeholder). It's gone office/lab and the architect is Elkus, so it looks exactly like you'd expect: glass box with a curved top and terra cotta fins.
That's where trimming the two far corner buildings with suspect-quality driveway access and uglified/noisy overlook of 128 is prudent solely for the more-compromised upside vs. all the rectangular Grove-facing parcels. I can't imagine the developers aren't naturally more sanguine about the odds & upside for those 2 structures and rate them way lower than the rest on priority/likelihood.
If you mean the office tower... not a chance (though they've sacrificed the other office building behind it). It's now the most important building on the site for the developer, because that loud, ugly, low-lying footprint is the only place the neighbors will permit a tall office block.
