Eli Lilly IGM | 15 Necco Street | Fort Point

In all honesty, though I think it's interesting, I personally do not care for the dimensions. It is either too short, or too wide. It just looks very heavy and off kilter.

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And I realize these comments can apply to so many buildings in Boston, but to me, it offers a more extreme example, probably because it's very purposefully not a background building.
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Screen on the fence abutting the harbor walk was removed (or blew off in the storm?). You can see how the berm is built into the landscaping and that there will be a nice connection between the water sheet and the channel side of the building. Up close it really is a substantial elevation difference as seen next to the unfinished stair.


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Landscaping isn’t completely finished but the fence is down and the plants are in. Probably 95% complete at this point. It’s great harbor walk infill and will hopefully be dwarfed by the Channelside development whenever that starts…


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Revival seems to be carving a niche as an office park cafe chain.
 
RandomWalk said:
Revival seems to be carving a niche as an office park cafe chain.
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They have one in the heart of downtown and one in notably non-office-parky Davis square spot.
Nor would I call 15 Necco an office park.
However, I think(?) I may get your point, which is that there's something cognitively dissonant about a hipster/gritty coffee joint inserting itself into the Alewife / Watertown Arsenal corporate not-cool-enough settings
 
Yeah… it was a bit of snark about office cafe quality and the semi-captive audience.
 
From this morning.
 

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Is that cobblestone-ish thing meant to be a walkable path?
 
Arenacale said:
Is that cobblestone-ish thing meant to be a walkable path?
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Looked like more of a drainage feature. Taking rain water from the top of the platform areas to the lower parking lot level. Too ruff to walk on.
 
Apparently it's open for business as of today. The outdoor space had become roped off again recently, and according to one rumor I heard something fell from the building into the public right of way, so the grass and internal walkways were closed for a bit. Presumably the area is accessible again now that the building is open.

Also, a small point but one that's cropping up across Fort Point, this building is being advertised as "in the Boston Seaport".

 
Open.

www.bostonglobe.com

Eli Lilly opens $700 million research center on Fort Point spot where GE headquarters was once planned - The Boston Globe

The 346,000-square-foot building will accommodate Lilly’s expanding workforce in Massachusetts and serve as the company’s hub for gene-based treatments.
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Nearly two-thirds of the building consists of lab space. Lilly scientists will work on RNA- and DNA-based medicines, as well as pursue novel treatments for diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative conditions, chronic pain, and other diseases.

“I’m super, super, super excited,” Daniel Skovronsky, Lilly’s chief scientific officer, said last week. “It’s a building a scientist can love. I’m a scientist, so I’m in love.”

The more than 200 Lilly scientists and researchers who had worked at 450 Kendall St. in Cambridge and made up the company’s modest workforce in Massachusetts have moved into the new research and development center, he said. Lilly plans to add about 300 more employees through hires, giving the Indianapolis-based company 500 employees in the state.
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The building will also house a biotech incubator for 12 to 15 promising startups that employ another 200 workers. This will be the fourth of Lilly’s so-called Gateway Labs (there are two in South San Francisco and one in San Diego), which create opportunities for fledgling biotechs to collaborate with Lilly scientists.
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Lab view. Image credit to the Boston Globe.
 
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