This being next to the thought experiment posted on here a few years back, along with a nice Pi Alley Parking Garage redevelopment, would make this little corner an urban gem.15 Court Square now proposed for a residential conversion.
Bizarrely asymmetrical window pattern on the north facade--I'm guessing that was done during Boston's Great Stagnation era ca. 1929-1965 when owners could get away with all kinds of bizarre cheapo alterations. Presumably it will be remedied during the conversion. Otherwise, it's a handsome building, if extremely obscured by the huge mass of One Boston Place.
(Also, of course, it is quite buried within labyrinth-like Court Square, though there is something gloriously DTX about that. "How do you get there?" "Well, you can cut through Pi Alley for about 100 yards, or you can navigate through the horseshoe-shaped Court Square, or you can cut through Old City Hall Ave. for about 100 yards. Really, there's no normal way to get there--welcome to DTX!"
It would be almost trivial to fit homes for 1200 people on the Pi Alley Garage site.This being next to the thought experiment posted on here a few years back, along with a nice Pi Alley Parking Garage redevelopment, would make this little corner an urban gem.
https://archboston.com/community/threads/residential-tower-26-court-st-government-center.5671/
It would be almost trivial to fit homes for 1200 people on the Pi Alley Garage site.
Well I did say almost trivial but I bet I could pencil it out in a half hour or so. Two towers on a shared podium, 40 stories each, wouldn’t be too crazy.Not sure you understand the word “trivial”. Fitting 1,200 homes on that site would be a lot of things (potentially good or bad) ……..none of them “almost trivial”.
Well I did say almost trivial but I bet I could pencil it out in a half hour or so. Two towers on a shared podium, 40 stories each, wouldn’t be too crazy.
6 of one half dozen of the other.You don't need 'a half hour or so to pencil it out'- your subsequent post makes it obvious you meant "easy". "Trivial" means something else. 1,200 homes on that site would not be "trivial". It'd be impactful, and would be a great benefit to the city.