Boston Tech Center Redevelopment | 176 Lincoln Street | Brighton

[mdd]

There's some really finicky looking transition details. It's too busy. Good luck detailing that.

 

[Equilibria]

BCDC: https://bpda.app.box.com/s/wha0ccewd4zb2t43t8ul4t0vu1tw3qjg

They made a video: https://bpda.app.box.com/s/bi2yk5zigyoj5ftdbv5nr97r3n98lg25

 

[Java King]

Building C is MUCH better in my opinion, but still not as nice as the original rendering. I'm glad they removed the sloped front facade.

 

[stellarfun]

Anyone have any idea how much it cost to produce that 11 minute video?

 

[stick n move]

Nice looking buildings imo.

 

[393b40]

Better than what is there for sure... laughing at the idea of that many pedestrians ever being on Lincoln Street (the road wedged between Pike and the buildings)

 

[itchy]

First rendering still looks the best, IMO. In the most recent rendering the "Apogee" building has depressingly devolved into a standard-fare 2020s lab building - it's just terrible architecture.

 

[Equilibria]

First rendering still looks the best, IMO. In the most recent rendering the "Apogee" building has depressingly devolved into a standard-fare 2020s lab building - it's just terrible architecture.

I think the line between what's built in Allston and Waltham has blurred to nothing. That reflects both improvement in Waltham and regression in Allston/Cambridge/Somerville.

 

[RandomWalk]

This site is cursed. The labs will be completed just in time for the bubble to burst and they will lay fallow for a generation.

 

[Equilibria]

This site is cursed. The labs will be completed just in time for the bubble to burst and they will lay fallow for a generation.

If that's true, they won't be the only ones.

 

[shmessy]

This site is cursed. The labs will be completed just in time for the bubble to burst and they will lay fallow for a generation.

The plain reality of global demagraphics - booming senior populations with longer life expectancies - say otherwise.

Tens of millions more people every year relying on life extending and maintenace meds and technologies. Not to mention booming middle classes in the developing worlds, etc.

Biotech is a different animal than automobile or furniture manufacturing.

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[Equilibria]

Some pre-approval press: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/02...s-plan-that-big-warehouse-along-pike-allston/

Nice of them to protect Artisans Asylum from the inevitable redevelopment of the next block down.

 

[stick n move]

https://www.cbtarchitects.com/project/176-lincoln

 

[stick n move]

Approved

“The Boston Planning & Development Agency approved two development projects that will bring 307 units of housing to Allston. The projects are located at 176 Lincoln St. and 1035 Commonwealth Ave.”

“The 176 Lincoln St. project is a mixed-use development with lab, office, residential, restaurant, retail and cultural space. Located within the Western Avenue Corridor Study and Rezoning (WACRZ) area, the project will replace an existing and long-vacant structure on site with three buildings. The residential building will consist of 252 units with 45 designated income-restricted and include 10 artist live/work units.
As part of the city’s WACRZ area, the Lincoln Street project also includes transportation and street network improvements, as well as a public connection to the Boston Landing MBTA Station on all sides of the site. Green space will be a priority of the project and make up 40% of the project (almost two acres) and include the planting of 100 new trees.
The project will also contribute $222,680 to the Boston Transportation Department to install and operate a new on-site Bluebikes station.”
https://bostonagentmagazine.com/202...bring-more-than-300-housing-units-to-allston/

 

[mssrro]

11/11...some pipes and dumpsters on site:

 

[RandomWalk]

I was expecting that they would miss this cycle and the datacenter would shamble along for another decade.

 

[Czervik.Construction]

I was expecting that they would miss this cycle and the datacenter would shamble along for another decade.

I still remember the year ~2000 with the giant Globix / Global Crossing - CLEC/COLO/DATACENTER all-caps sign that was up for so long, then one day it was gone. And nobody has been able to make that site work.

 

[GreenLineEnthusiast]

11/14/24 letter from Berkeley requesting an adjustment to their IDP from the original 45 on-site affordable units to 10 on-site affordable units (the artist live/work units) and 35 off site units, proposed for 108 Holton St, which currently appears (admittedly based on street view) to be a special operations training center for the Boston Fire Department. Also includes a request to split up the below-ground garage in order to build Building A separately from B and C.

I'm glad they're at least trying to build the residential, but I'm not sure if this particular solution will be effective.

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[curcuas]

Good case for off-site here given that offsite is literally 3 blocks away

 

[BMW]

11/14/24 letter from Berkeley requesting an adjustment to their IDP from the original 45 on-site affordable units to 10 on-site affordable units (the artist live/work units) and 35 off site units, proposed for 108 Holton St, which currently appears (admittedly based on street view) to be a special operations training center for the Boston Fire Department. Also includes a request to split up the below-ground garage in order to build Building A separately from B and C.

I'm glad they're at least trying to build the residential, but I'm not sure if this particular solution will be effective.

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BFD has moved out as of about a year ago to West Roxbury by Millenium Park.