Fan Pier Developments | Seaport

[GMACK24]

I seriously doubt that store will last 1 year.
I mean who wants to go all that way for 1 store ?
it is doomed.

 

[briv]

I agree. What the hell was Louis Boston thinking? Things have to be desperate for them. I wouldn't be surprised if the space was 100% gratis.

 

[KentXie]

^^Maybe competition on Newbury St. was too high and thus explain their movement to Fan Pier. Doubt it would work though.

 

[Boston02124]

What about all those office workers who will now be able to stroll over there during lunch and after/during work hours? It also wo'nt have to complete with newbury st,copely place ect!

 

[armpitsOFmight]

Can somebody please explain why the Patriots new stadium wasn't built in the SBW? I know the owner considered it but then changed his mind and moved it to the middle-of-nowhere Foxborough.

 

[czsz]

What about all those office workers who will now be able to stroll over there during lunch and after/during work hours? It also wo'nt have to complete with newbury st,copely place ect!

1. Not many people actually work down there (especially compared to Back Bay)
2. Many of them will not want to walk there most of the year (when it seriously sucks to be close to the water)

This strikes me a desperate last move for Louis Boston. It will be snuffed out as an institution soon enough.

 

[AmericanFolkLegend]

Louis Boston sees itself as a destination retailer (hence the salon, cafe, personal shoppers, etc.). So the people that shop there for the experience will undoubtedly continue to go. The walkins off the street will not. The question is, how much of Louis' sales are dependent on each of these two groups of customers?

I suspect alot of walk-ins go there for the curiosity factor and don't buy anything (I did that once - I was so appalled by the prices that I put my hand on my wallet and slowly backed out the door).

 

[Ron Newman]

The fact that Bob Kraft already owned the land in Foxboro was surely a major factor.

 

[jass]

such a waste of space ^.

Do you have the money to build something else?

At least the Fan Pier people are doing SOMETHING.

What has been done across the street at Seaport Square?

 

[PlanBoston]

At least the Fan Pier people are doing SOMETHING.

What has been done across the street at Seaport Square?

It's a shame that the choices seem to be 1) build something awful, uninspired, and suburban; or 2) build nothing at all. At least the new Louis building is supposedly temporary (roughly 10 year horizon). Maybe in another decade, the economic and political climate will encourage better planning and design. One can only hope.

 

[ablarc]

... and almost for sure, the Messiah will come. Or maybe come again!

 

[palindrome]

Do you have the money to build something else?

At least the Fan Pier people are doing SOMETHING.

What has been done across the street at Seaport Square?

I'm just saying, this little 1 story retail shop ties up waterfront space for the next ten years at the minimum. (not that that matters. Fan pier has been tied up for the last 20 years anyways) When funding does return this will now be the last parcel developed.

In my opinion i would rather they had left that parcel barren than build this. With that said, i appreciate the jobs, taxes and waterfront life this little building is producing, at a time when it is much needed.

 

[Shepard]

And just think how wonderful it will be once L.B. goes bust and a Taco Bell/KFC moves in.

 

[PlanBoston]

And just think how wonderful it will be once L.B. goes bust and a Taco Bell/KFC moves in.

Ha ha - Those seem to sprout up anywhere they put in an exit on the interstate, even Exit 25 - South Boston.

I'd also take a lousy patch of grass here without the crappy building on it, thank you.

 

[SeamusMcFly]

And just think how wonderful it will be once L.B. goes bust and a Taco Bell/KFC moves in.

As a Fort Point area worker, I for one would love a Taco Bell in the area. I could actually afford lunch every now and then. Also, I, like the visionary writer of the movie Demolition Man, see Taco Bell as actually very good food.

On one of the previous topics of office workers going there. The new Fish and Richardson folks would probably be the types who would shop there, so that would work out well. Possibly some of the overpaid fatties at the courthouse next door as well.

If we could only get a few more lower and middle class establishments to cater to all kinds in the area.

 

[statler]

There was a McDonald's in the courthouse for a while. I guess the fatties didn't give it enough business.

 

[Ron Newman]

McDonald's was replaced by Daily Catch, which is more appropriate for the setting and location.

 

[BostonYoureMyHome]

That Daily Catch sucks. I went in their one time, waited 20 minutes for no one to even take our drink order...walked out. They weren't even busy, one party of four in the place, and plenty of staff doing nothing. I will never return, and stick to the Barking Crab. I would rather see McDonald's in there...actually Taco Bell. I like the Demolition Man reference.

 

[JohnAKeith]

1) the restaurant at Fan Pier has applied for a liquor license transfer, so that's moving forward;

2) if you want to make a lot of money, open a Mexican food restaurant in the South End, it doesn't even have to be high-end. People are clamoring for it. (There is a restaurant near corners of Harrison Ave and Berkeley (soon to be Dover) Street, but few know about it and the location is off the beaten path.

 

[kz1000ps]