Canopy by Hilton (née Haymarket Hotel) | Blackstone St | Parcel 9 | Greenway

[stick n move]

Re: Parcel 9 - The Greenway

Where is this garbage you speak of?

 

[cjbski]

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It had better be brick...

 

[tangent]

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People hate it now, they'll get excited when it starts going up, then when its half way through and not a reflection of what the end result will be at all people will call it a turd, then it will finish and everyone will love it.

Pretty sure it is a bit better than mediocre now and will be a bit better than mediocre when its done. A good use of the space that won't clash too much visually with some of it's better surroundings such as the historic buildings and compares favorably to some of it's uglier surrounding buildings. For a hotel and market it works.

 

[stick n move]

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Thats what im saying ^ but im just talking about how the circle of life of development in boston works on this forum. I like this and pretty much everything else that is going up or has gone up besides 888 boylston, and even then it looks great at night and has a really engaging street level.

It had better be brick...

Cant guarantee what the materials are but look at the windows, the people, and the buildings in the background. This is still basically massing models with a little bit more color. I can guarantee 100% that this is going to turn out extremely good and be a welcomed addition to the greenway. Recently we have gotten materials wayyy up to par with where they should be. Look at lovejoy wharf. The renders looked terrible, in real life it blows you away, and it even came out better than some of the old stock we have in the city which is extremely hard to do.

 

[Brad Plaid]

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On its own this is at "acceptable" level, nothing any more ambitious than that. Compared to the previous proposal though this gets dragged down to second banana-to-Blackstone, milquetoast level.

 

[bigpicture7]

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Cant guarantee what the materials are but look at the windows, the people, and the buildings in the background. This is still basically massing models with a little bit more color.

All one needs to do is look at the fruit stands to see how rough and preliminary these renderings are. Where's all the rotted fruit on the ground? The trash? Clearly the real Haymarket isn't depicted yet...

 

[odurandina]

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^^

 

[cjbski]

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Cant guarantee what the materials are but look at the windows, the people, and the buildings in the background. This is still basically massing models with a little bit more color. I can guarantee 100% that this is going to turn out extremely good and be a welcomed addition to the greenway. Recently we have gotten materials wayyy up to par with where they should be. Look at lovejoy wharf. The renders looked terrible, in real life it blows you away, and it even came out better than some of the old stock we have in the city which is extremely hard to do.

Agreed. ANYTHING is better than what's there now. Honestly it's an embarrassment it's sat like this for so long.

 

[type001]

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^^^Agreed 100%. Embarrassment it is.

 

[goldenretrievers]

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take it with a grain of salt, but there is a medium sized excavator now sitting idle on the parcel (could be for market trash)

 

[underground]

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(could be for market trash)

They're gonna start landfilling it?

 

[cjbski]

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The hotel will finally break ground in Spring 2018:

https://northendwaterfront.com/2017/07/haymarket-hotel-parcel-9-break-ground-spring-2018/

Blackstone Street also to be renovated as a result. This project is a huge win IMO.

 

[BeeLine]

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Could be starting work this spring.

http://www.universalhub.com/2018/work-could-begin-spring-haymarket-hotel-will

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[RandomWalk]

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So it got VE’d straight into Chelsea....

 

[tobyjug]

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Nice Rte 495 office park there, mister.

 

[DZH22]

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Is this now going to be a 5 over 1 piece of crap right in the heart of downtown?

 

[vanshnookenraggen]

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Keeping this capped at 6 floors is such a waste. Not saying there should be some 20 story tower here but this is prime real estate. No wonder Boston has become so expensive.

 

[tobyjug]

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Agree. This can't be the highest and best use for the property. Surely the developer wants to extract more value from the site. Responsibility for this mediocrity surely must fall on the city officials.

And what a let down this is compared to the garage proposal next door!

 

[stellarfun]

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You were never going to get anything built here that contextually conflicted with this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone_Block_Historic_District

And there were earlier proposals that were nothing more than a big middle finger to the Blackstone block.

 

[tobyjug]

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Yeah, I get the theory of contextualism, but ye olde shopper wasn't driving a Honda CRV over to the Old Feather Store for groceries and then popping in to the Bell in Hand for a wine spritzer.