Brickyard at Assembly | 120-132 Middlesex Avenue | Somerville

[RandomWalk]

I’m convinced that Jimmy Hoffa is buried under the slab at Circuit City...

 

[NorthshoreCity]

18 floors, 596,000SF, so presumably something like 300'.

Great estimate - actual height per the documents posted is 299' to T.O. mechanical

 

[Equilibria]

Seeking an extension to its hardship variance to finish up proposal documents:

https://www.somervillema.gov/sites/default/files/DW%20-%20120%20Middlesex%20Avenue%20-%20LTTR%20RE%20Extension%20of%20Time%20[Regarding%20Hardship%20Variance].pdf

 

[Equilibria]

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Sorry! Still 74M, I think! Your angle on Brickyard will look like this:

 

[stefal]

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Interesting choice of location for that billboard...

 

[Equilibria]

As of April, still working on the site plan: https://www.somervillema.gov/sites/default/files/Narrative_6.pdf

 

[Equilibria]

https://s3.amazonaws.com/somervillema.gov.if-us-east-1/s3fs-public/2022-12/MiddlesexAve120_PR-MajorAmend-070722.pdf

Not sure what the amendment was, but worth noting that the proponent on this is now DivcoWest.

 

[shmessy]

Parsing that letter very tightly, it seems they dropped the office component of the original “Lab/R+D/Office” building. And the Somerville planning director is saying it’s not such a big deal change, no prob. My best guess.

 

[Equilibria]

I can confirm this personally - I saw them knocking things down last week.

 

[SeamusMcFly]

Parsing that letter very tightly, it seems they dropped the office component of the original “Lab/R+D/Office” building. And the Somerville planning director is saying it’s not such a big deal change, no prob. My best guess.

Every core shell lab building is a lab/office building. It's all a matter of the split.
Typically these days it's back to 60/40 from a brief time when it was 50/50.

With the difficulty of getting people back into the office, they may start venturing closer to 70/30.

The office component is still very much a part of these buildings.

 

[bigpicture7]

Every core shell lab building is a lab/office building. It's all a matter of the split.
Typically these days it's back to 60/40 from a brief time when it was 50/50.

With the difficulty of getting people back into the office, they may start venturing closer to 70/30.

The office component is still very much a part of these buildings.

Even lab workers who have to come into work primarily to do lab work like to have a separate place to sit outside the wet lab.