Everett Docklands Innovation District | 52 Beacham Street | Everett

Hydrobus said:
I am disappointed too. I have a feeling in this case its more an economics thing than a local politics thing. I think the leap between 5 overs 1's and concrete high rises is a pretty large one in per unit costs. And interior Everett, not near any (good) public transit or water feature or existing cool urban square, or highway, is just not that desirable a location. I do think that's one thing they messed up is they could have put more effort into retail in the five over one's they already built, just to create a sense of place. I walked through the area recently and only saw one business, a smoothie place. I get maybe the developers would lose money short term but it would pay off in making the area more desirable.
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I can understand reducing building heights because of construction costs, but I wish they had left at least one or two of the taller towers as part of the plan.
 
These days modular construction has cut the costs drastically of building over 6/7 floors up to 10/15/20. Before it used to be the highest “5 over 1” you could build was 7 floors with 2 steel or concrete floors followed by 5 wood floors. From 8 floors up to 100 you had to move to steel or precast concrete so building a 10 story building in many cases was not economical. These days you can build with stacked prefab modules from 8 floors up to 10/15/20 and even more in some cases. We have a few examples around the city recently

In somerville they just built the 10 story clarendon hill building with modular construction.

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Is there a bigger street-tree advocate than a developer's graphics team?
 
KCasiglio said:
Is there a bigger street-tree advocate than a developer's graphics team?
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Me? (lol)

In all seriousness, it's funny you mention that. If you review the conditions/recommendations from the City's Planning office for the development team, the City of Everett is actually requiring a minimum of 400 street trees as part of the Everett Docklands site plan. This is in line with their Urban Tree Canopy planning efforts and a demonstrated goal to reduce urban heat island near/south of Sweetser Circle. As an Everett resident, active transportation advocate, and trained transportation planner, I'm proud of the S-Tier work that Everett's Planning Department has done around mandating these investments as part of their project review.
 
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dshoost88 said:
Me? (lol)

In all seriousness, it's funny you mention that. If you review the conditions/recommendations from the City's Planning office for the development team, the City of Everett is actually requiring a minimum of 400 street trees as part of the Everett Docklands site plan. This is actually in line with their Urban Tree Canopy planning efforts and a demonstrated goal to reduce urban heat island near/south of Sweetser Circle. As an Everett resident, active transportation advocate, and trained transportation planner, I'm actually proud of the S-Tier work that Everett's Planning Department has done around mandating these investments as part of their project review.
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That's amazing! Forgive my cynicism: http://archboston.com/community/threads/quincy-general-developments.6512/post-501519
 
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