BU Development Thread

BU announced it was ending its affiliation with Huntington back in 2015.
 
Ongoing restoration of Myles Standish Hall:
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Re: Dental Building. It will be almost impossible to tell that the top four floors were a vertical addition from the 1970's.
 
estyle said:
I've been waiting for that glazing to go in. It's looking good so far--I haven't looked up the renderings (yes, I am lazy) so I'm interested to see what happens at the street level.
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A plaza that steps down to the street with concrete benches and planters.
 
I remember when that tanning place was Sicilia's pizza. Strangely, for some reason, they made a Chicago-style deep dish pizza that was pure decadence. They were also open until 3am on weekends, which was awesome after the party lights would go out in the city at 2am.
 
I'm curious, if this happens, whether BU would be looking to hold the Wheelock campus long term. It seems just too far away (and too awkwardly located relative to BU and the street grid for good bus service) for keeping it to work well.
 
The Globe had more information on the potential merge:

If the deal comes together, Wheelock’s School of Education, Child Life, and Family Studies would merge with BU’s School of Education to create the Wheelock College of Education and Human Development. Other programs at Wheelock would merge with similar programs at BU, Chard said.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/20...er/bb8xp7vRHJgv4a9PDrSj6O/story.html#comments

Wheelock is really only about a mile from the BU Charles River campus. BU is already running shuttles between the Charles River campus and the medical school.
 
whittle said:
I'm curious, if this happens, whether BU would be looking to hold the Wheelock campus long term. It seems just too far away (and too awkwardly located relative to BU and the street grid for good bus service) for keeping it to work well.
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After hearing about Wheelock's financial problems last spring I was wondering if they would merge with Simmons College. The Wheelock campus is adjacent to Simmons' residential campus and Wheelock students use the Simmons rec center. But I believe that Simmons is on shaky financial and enrolment ground too.

My guess is that the new Wheelock academic building may be used for the merged School of Social Work and the rest of the Wheelock campus will be sold of for a nice profit.
 
I still don't know why all the "Colleges of the Fens" don't just merge and become Fenway College or something like that.
 
statler said:
I still don't know why all the "Colleges of the Fens" don't just merge and become Fenway College or something like that.
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MassArt is public, the others are private. Emmanuel is Catholic, the others are not.

But more importantly a merger would put a lot of high salaried administrators out of a job.

On the BU Today website a couple of BU commenters are complaining about Wheelock students' "inferior" stats. I guess they never checked out the CGS stats at BU.
 
TomOfBoston said:
MassArt is public, the others are private. Emmanuel is Catholic, the others are not.

But more importantly a merger would put a lot of high salaried administrators out of a job.

On the BU Today website a couple of BU commenters are complaining about Wheelock students' "inferior" stats. I guess they never checked out the CGS stats at BU.
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We acronym CGS "Crayons, glue, and scissors". We know the CGS stats.
 
Don't forget that Wheelock also owns this building on the Longwood Mall and has a president's residence and some other housing nearby on Kent Street. Wheelock put those latter assets on the market recently, and not sure whether they found a buyer or would pull them from the market for this merger. Either way, a nice little end run around BU's promise (don't ask me for a citation but one should be readily obtainable) to stop collecting real estate south of Beacon St. in Brookline.
 
bailout/annex a few students, sell the real estate to the other Fenway institutions or to development?
 
odurandina said:
bailout/annex a few students, sell the real estate to the other Fenway institutions or to development?
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I don't think BU is in the business of a bailout. Their motivations need to be looked at in terms of what they gain from the merger. This seems like a pretty savvy land grab.
 
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