Bulfinch Crossing | Congress Street Garage | West End

Not much new demolition progress yet.
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I am going to take the unpopular position here and say I hope they never finish the demolition. It can sit like this for the rest of my life if that's what it takes to prevent a fat lab from ruining the money shot of State Street. That lab is going to be 10x worse than the garage.
 
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DZH22 said:
I am going to take the unpopular position here and say I hope they never finish the demolition. It can sit like this for the rest of my life if that's what it takes to prevent a fat lab from ruining the money shot of State Street. That lab is going to be 10x worse than the garage.
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The pedestrian experience thru here absolutely sucks right now, the green and orange lines are shut on the weekends, you cant drive down congress street which makes traffic on game days a nightmare and you like it. Shows how completely out of touch you are with reality
 
DZH22 said:
I am going to take the unpopular position here and say I hope they never finish the demolition. It can sit like this for the rest of my life if that's what it takes to prevent a fat lab from ruining the money shot of State Street. That lab is going to be 10x worse than the garage.
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The lab will be one fugly, fat, squat structure, but at least it will be a lot smaller footprint than the GC garage, and will not bridge over Congress Street. I agree that the city made a fatal error in approving the lab building as designed. It's possibly the worst building I've ever seen in a render.
 
Suffolk 83 said:
The pedestrian experience thru here absolutely sucks right now, the green and orange lines are shut on the weekends, you cant drive down congress street which makes traffic on game days a nightmare and you like it. Shows how completely out of touch you are with reality
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If they could fix the traffic/transport issues I would take the remaining hulk of the garage over the new lab. I'm just talking 100% aesthetics. The lab will be the worst and most damaging modern structure downtown if it gets built.

By the way, after the nasty emails you sent me which I should have you BANNED for, don't comment on my posts anymore.
 
They have gotten down to the last layer of Lincoln logs. It’s gress. The pro is just not involved.
 
Between a couple of different jaunts that took me by the site this weekend, I got to see some of the demo crews in action, and I think I got a sense of what the process is for taking down the floor slabs:
  1. Manually jackhammer holes in the floor, on either side of the vertical part of the "T" that is each slab's cross section, maybe 6-8 feet in from the ends.
  2. Loop cables through, hook to crane.
  3. [Underpants gnomes go here, but I should think that these slabs have additional connecting tissue to the main structure. The slabs that were taken down before last year's horrific fatality clearly had large holes punched through right around the corbels you can see in the big horizontal members here:
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  4. Lift-off.
I think they got a total of 3 floor slabs down this weekend this way, if I counted right? There might be more work going on deeper into the structure that we can't see from the street, though.

The biggest difference versus the pre-fatality procedure seems to be the lack of any powered jackhammer equipment, and a crew of maybe 6 per slab. Maybe that's an abundance of caution/a "screw you" to some higher-up, given that OSHA says the worker was murdered died when a foreman ordered him to drive a mini-JCB equipped with a jackhammer onto a floor slab that was already weakened by previous demo work after another worker balked at the task? Or maybe there's a logistical reason?
 
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This photo reminds me of western Alaska where an entire community assembles at the beach to disassemble a dead whale they hunted. The people gradually strip down the whale to its skeleton, which looks very much like the framework of this beastly garage.
 
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Wow, look at those beams. That hulking beast looks like the loading cranes in the Seaport:

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Blackbird said:
Ah, yes. Aesthetics...
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Still better than walling off the entire North End while simultaneously setting the precedent for hulking, scale-ruining labs being built in the heart of downtown.
 
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