BU Development Thread

bdurden said:
Re: your last shot

I've often wondered if BU has plans to build on the parking lot behind CAS, adjacent to the School of Social Work (and perhaps demolish that building which is nothing exceptional). They have a grand opportunity there to build a great academic building (perhaps a location for the new Law School?) that could be a nice bookend to the small park in the forefront (the BU Beach).
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I believe that site was reserved for the future construction of a new central library. That was in the days before the internet made the number of volumes in a university library irrelevant. BU may decide to stick with Mugar Library and build something else there.
 
found5dollar said:
Just my 2 cents on the pirvate school issue from a few posts back.

Regarding college, I was thinking about going into architecture, but went into stage design instead (tons of reasons including being able to design things that do not have to function as specific things, and the sheer number of designs i can do in the same ammount of time between theater and buildings). The choice to go to a state school saved me so much. The price was for all 4 years less than one year at some of the private schools, and i would be absolutly no where further allong (infact i might be farther benind) in my career than if i went to a private school. Becasue of all this and my willingness to work hard, i hav eno student loans and becasue of the many chances i got to design in college i got a pretty damn good job.
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Too bad Massachusetts doesn't provide a public architecture school.
 
TomOfBoston said:
Too bad Massachusetts doesn't provide a public architecture school.
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UMass has a +3 Masters of Architecture program. So you are looking at 7 years of schooling before you get the degree, but an architecture bachelor's degree weighs about the same as a job application to Starbucks, so its only an extra year. Plus having that non-architecture Bachelor's degree will come in handy when you are laid off.

And the BAC, while private, is about the same as UMass Amherst's in-state rate.
 
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TomOfBoston said:
I believe that site was reserved for the future construction of a new central library. That was in the days before the internet made the number of volumes in a university library irrelevant. BU may decide to stick with Mugar Library and build something else there.
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There was a plan in 2008 or 2009 to construct two temporary buildings for the law school while the tower underwent a complete refurbishment.

I have no idea what happened to that plan
 
A BU spokesman (so take it for face value) told me that they will be announcing a Law School fundraising plan this year to renovate the Law Tower and for an addition.
 
yesterday from Chelsea with Charlestown in the foreground
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thanks, nomad kind of fits me abit lol! today
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Fenway skyline with BU tower in th foreground.
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Dang! cut it off!>
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The railroad yard ^^^ is owned by Harvard. CSX has agreed to move out, and apparently will do so by 2012. The state has bought the double tracks on the right side of the picture. Not sure where the suggested commuter rail station for Allston/Brighton is in those pictures.

http://transportation.blog.state.ma...ment-south-coast-rail-plans-move-forward.html

http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/news/x487487358/CSX-moving-out-of-Boston

Not clear whether this particular piece of property is one that Harvard included when recently announcing it would be talking with other parties to jointly develop some of the land it owns in Allston.
 
They're supposed to purchase the 3 tracks on the right, not just 2. They need a freight line/bypass. Not so much for service into Fenway or thru Fenway, but for the Grand Junction (line that goes through Cambridge).
 
They really should take 4 tracks. 2 for long distance (MBCR and Amtrak) one for freight to chill at, and one for the south station to newtonville local shuttle (SS, Back Bay, Yawkey, BU bridge, Allston, Brighton, Riverside, Newtonville)
 
If you run the terminal well you really only need one in each direction and a bypass. If you run the terminal like Dagny Taggart you only need one and a bypass.
 
I was walking through Kenmore today and noticed this:

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New Boston University gateway -- big improvement over the red sign (still pictured behind it).
 
Wow. Very original, BU. I don't think I've ever seen...

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Oh. Yeah. Nevermind.
 
What a waste of money.

(Id never noticed the red sign on the portal behind it, has it really always been there?)
 
What exactly is the point of this? Universities have given up on brand and now need bigass signs? Harvard does not have a big stone sign that says "This is Harvard!"
 
BU lives in the shadow of BC on the national level, so I guess they feel the need for a sign. Northeastern needed it as a pat on the back, maybe?
 
Harvard does not have a big stone sign that says "This is Harvard!"
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You don't really need one if you have a huge concrete stadium announcing your presence .
 
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