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

jass said:
Thats nice 3rd track theyre building there.

Surely thats what it is, because no one would be dumb enough to permanently make the route 2 tracks
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I'm pretty sure there are multiple pinch points east of here (including the entire Pru air rights complex) that preclude running three tracks through this stretch. What would a triple track between Beacon Yard and ~Shawmut Ave even get you?
 
Camberville said:
Wow. This seems like an accident waiting to happen. Is that seating for an active restaurant? Audubon maybe? Why couldn't the bike lane have gone around?
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It is for Audubon, and it seemed to be working just fine when we went there. It's not the best set up ever (Cambridge has been doing a pretty good job of it on Mass Ave in many spots: outdoor dining in the parking spot, then bike lane, then jersey barriers protecting from cars), but I think it works pretty well. I've seen a lot of that set up in NYC.
 
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The restaurateur of Eastern Standard / Island Creek / The Hawthorne is returning to the neighborhood to open 4 (!) new restaurants across the ground floors of the (now open) Phase I here. The restaurants will open next year, by which time his non-compete with his old landlord in the Hotel Commonwealth will be expired.
www.bostonglobe.com

Garrett Harker of Eastern Standard fame coming back to the Fenway with four new restaurants - The Boston Globe

Harker plans to return to Kenmore Square in a deal to launch in a new apartment building along Beacon Street, with new restaurants set to open next year.
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Harker has reached a deal to open four restaurants in the Bower apartment building in the Fenway Center development, a luxury mixed-use project on Beacon Street, just a five-minute stroll from his old stomping grounds at the Hotel Commonwealth. The restaurants will open in early 2023.

Harker plans to carve up 20,000-square-feet in the Bower’s street-level retail space and make full use of the center’s plaza, where he’ll have a sea of outdoor seating. The two-building apartment complex, which opened in 2020, is the first phase of the long-planned Fenway Center project; phase two — which includes a 22-story office tower to be built on a deck atop the Massachusetts Turnpike — launched last year.

Now the project will have a big-name restaurant anchoring its ground floor just outside Kenmore Square.
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Anyone know if the developer on this has a project time line like there is on Parcel 12? Pretty excited to see when the decking might start.
 
bakgwailo said:
Anyone know if the developer on this has a project time line like there is on Parcel 12? Pretty excited to see when the decking might start.
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http://buildp7.com The official site is a little sparse.
There's maybe a week or so left of drilling left. One rig has already been demobilized and taken off-site. After all the drilling is done, they need to excavate and cut the piles before rebar work can occur for pile-caps. Any supporting steel would need to be set, concrete forms installed and concrete poured. The pile cap work has to be completed on both sides of the pike and lanes returned before the center median can be taken and micropiles drilled there. Rinse and repeat the post-pile installing process then steel can begin. That's the gist of it.
There's also support/enabling work to be done by the Brookline Ave bridge as far as utilities and select demolition goes.
 
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