BU Development Thread

Awesome pics, thanks for the updates Beeline! I think that the BU Theater is going to be a great project - that lot was itching for an upgrade.
 
Galactic said:
Awesome pics, thanks for the updates Beeline! I think that the BU Theater is going to be a great project - that lot was itching for an upgrade.
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I just hope the old BU theater on Huntington finds a good new caretaker after BU moves...
 
bigpicture7 said:
I just hope the old BU theater on Huntington finds a good new caretaker after BU moves...
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It has already been sold. The other buildings on Huntington will be demolished. A new building will go up and the theater will use a portion of the first floor of the new building as lobby space. I can't find the article right now.

Knowing the NIMBY's it may take a while for that new building to be built.


http://www.playbill.com/article/hun...kes-deal-to-stay-at-the-bu-theatre-com-382687
 
I had no idea about that renovation, and I walked by there yesterday wondering what the hell happened.
 
TomOfBoston said:
More like a reconstruction than a renovation.
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Needs it. Needs it so bad. The basement was in scary-bad structural shape 20 years ago when I was working for Campus Dining Services. Can't imagine what another 2 decades years of decay and unplugged leaks have done to the integrity of the whole building. Reconstruction is right...it's too far gone to just do a standard reno.
 
GW said:
Just an FYI for you folks. The new dorm planned for West Campus is on hold with no timeline for start:

http://www.bu.edu/today/2016/bu-construction/#comment-6596704
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According to the IMP StuViIII was to be built before the Myles renovation began. Myles would then be emptied and renovated in one phase. The current renovation/reconstruction will be done in 3 phases and the building will remain partially occupied throughout.
 
TomOfBoston said:
According to the IMP StuViIII was to be built before the Myles renovation began. Myles would then be emptied and renovated in one phase. The current renovation/reconstruction will be done in 3 phases and the building will remain partially occupied throughout.
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I don't think it's going to extend beyond the Myles renovation, but my understanding is that BU is putting students who would have been in Myles in that new residential building on Comm Ave next to the Planned Parenthood clinic.

Really wish they'd build StuVi III to help ease residential demand in the area, but at least they're reducing the size of incoming classes.
 
bdurden said:
Perhaps because newer facilities already exist and are in use.
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BDurden -- or perhaps when presented with the opportunity of a lifetime [the school's lifetime] to bid high on the Railroad yard -- they saw Harvard's hungry mouth open and BU's Terrier blinked pulled in his tail and ran back to Kenmore
 
Um how is that even connected to a racquetball court closing because a newer one already exists?
 
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