Domino Sugar Redevelopment | 425 Medford Street | Charlestown Waterfront

[curcuas]

Pro: leveraging the already surprisingly parks on the mystic

Con: Blase shrinking residential buildings yet again.

 

[stick n move]

Very high quality design and materials.

 

[Gunner02]

Pro: leveraging the already surprisingly parks on the mystic

Con: Blase shrinking residential buildings yet again.

Just start at 500' for crying out loud - then the 228' becomes a great compromise

 

[FK4]

BCDC: https://bpda.app.box.com/s/4594cqppo7jp5u0ilpzux59c6vxumof0

Looks great. Yeah, they should be going taller though, and as always, Id like to see some genuine shoreline habitat re-creation and marshland restoration on these riverbank projects. But it’s pretty good. Whoever drew up those plans and renders does a hell of a job with graphic design, that’s the best part of the document!

 

[LexSEDotVille]

The walk over from Sullivan Station leaves a LOT to be desired - it's downright dangerous at many intersections.

That view though... (site to the right)
59 by LexSEDotVille, on Flickr

NW corner of site
58 by LexSEDotVille, on Flickr

SW corner of site
56 by LexSEDotVille, on Flickr

 

[Vagabond]

This view is a little cheeky....

...but it's not like it's had anything to show off for the last 100+ years

 

[Vagabond]

January Presentation:
- Lots of height reductions
- Parking moved underground
- Lots of pre-work to raise site significantly, including all of Schrafft parking lots
- Still committing to walkable neighborhood
- Very light on architectural details outside of desired material form
- Presentation has lots of pictures of parks...
- Phase 1 buildings are really ambitious in the current financing climate.
- Only site work and parking bathtub for the first 2 years before anything go vertical

2024-01-23_Presentation_425 Medford Master Plan.pdf | Powered by Box

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[Hydrobus]

Looks awesome. I mean personally I would ditch the community paths between buildings that will be shady and windy and if anything allocate all the green space to the riverfront which is what people will actually use. I'm not convinced the design relates much to historic Charlestown, but it looks great.

 

[fatnoah]

The plan above says there will be shuttle bus service from Sullivan

This is where some anonymous benefactor provides the $$$ to repurpose the Mystic Wharf branch for a streetcar / LRV route, right?

 

[curcuas]

Underground parking, yet site raised. We still can't even do serious consistent policy on a site by site basis let alone by the City.

 

[BronsonShore]

Holy shit, they got them to eliminate every single inch surface parking. What a massive win, build this now .

 

[itchy]

Agree, this looks really good. And I guess the same developer owns 465 Medford (the adjacent site)? Will be quite the area when that gets developed as well.

 

[andrew.816]

Approved.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1768424508522738097

 

[Vagabond]

Glad that this finally got approval. Interesting reading about the commentary and remaining complaints about reactivating the site from an abandoned factory.

425 Medford PDA Master Plan gets BPDA Board approval