Fenway Center (One Kenmore) | Turnpike Parcel 7, Beacon Street | Fenway

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cubbe8 said:
Very much progressing. The concrete walls are being poured and the plaza is being constructed.
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Thanks! I don't get down that very often anymore and the lack of photos besides sidewalks in this thread had me curious.
 
When does the building start? They have been working on this deck for nearly 3 years. All that just to put up a gigantic lab during a major downturn for the industry. Is it too late to pivot to a 500' residential?
 
Is there going to be a concrete wall built between the station and highway? I never understand why this is not done in more places. In chicago or los angeles you have subway stations in the middle of highways with no barrier so you get choked out by exhaust and noise. No idea why they dont just put up a wall?

Heres an example at the end of the red line in chicago. The station is essentially underground already, why not just put up walls separating it from the highway?
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Why would/did they not put up a concrete wall here? Seems crazy.
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type001 said:
Yes, it's too late.
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I'm not saying it will happen, because it won't, but it's not too late to switch what will be built. It would be a huge amount of redesign, but a foundation designed to resist xyz forces will still work to resist the same xyz forces whether the forces come from a residential building or a lab building.
 
Longfellow said:
Might need mechanical ventilation if you put a wall there.
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Both ends of the station are open to the air unlike a subway station which has tunnels on both ends of the station. It wouldnt be good quality air having the highway there, but without the walls youre still just breathing in smog anyways. In the fenway example the backside of the station is open to the environment so it would be better quality air with the wall than without, so hopefully they are adding one there. Though maybe it could trap in locomotive exhaust and make that worse, idk.
 
DZH22 said:
When does the building start? They have been working on this deck for nearly 3 years. All that just to put up a gigantic lab during a major downturn for the industry. Is it too late to pivot to a 500' residential?
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Building has already started. Concrete walls are being poured.
 
Re: a wall between the station and the highway: They are pouring some concrete between them (around the steel supporting the deck) -- I'm not sure why, but it's halfway towards being a wall between the station and the highway, so I hope they finish it somehow at some point.

I don't have a recent photo, but here's one from September last year where you can see a couple steel posts that have concrete poured around them, and the one in the foreground "on deck":
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