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

[HenryAlan]

Sidebar pivot: Crawford had a no hitter through five. Then I jinxed it by mentioning it to my friend at the top of the six.

It wasn't your fault -- Dave O'Brien was already talking about it before the 6th inning, just as he jinxed Brayan Bello on Saturday.

 

[#bancars]

Some good discussion and photos of this project in the Globe this morning!

Mid-century âurban renewalâ tore Boston apart. Air rights projects are starting to sew it back together again. - The Boston Globe

Boston is slowly putting itself back together, patching past wounds and restoring the downtown core to human scale.

www.bostonglobe.com

 

[BeeLine]

As of 9/1.

 

[Arenacale]

9/6

 

[Charlie_mta]

Is the plan to join the new lid to the Brookline Ave bridge over the Mass Pike, or leave the gap?

 

[themissinglink]

Is the plan to join the new lid to the Brookline Ave bridge over the Mass Pike, or leave the gap?

It'll join up with the Brookline Ave bridge.

This is what it's planned to look like from the east. The render is a bit old (from Spring 2021) and I think there might have been some changes to the building design since then.

 

[dhawkins]

For some reason I like the Buckminster, hope it can be saved.

 

[Charlie_mta]

For some reason I like the Buckminster, hope it can be saved.

I like it too. Is there talk of tearing it down?

 

[bakgwailo]

I like it too. Is there talk of tearing it down?

There was some action earlier this year (or last) of the interior getting gutted and a lot of conjecture that it might not be long for this earth. Hopefully they save the building facade for whatever it's next purpose will be.

It'll join up with the Brookline Ave bridge.

This is what it's planned to look like from the east. The render is a bit old (from Spring 2021) and I think there might have been some changes to the building design since then.

Yup - I believe also where the new Eastern Standard was supposed to go in. I will say given the pace/progress on this, I have often wondered if they were just giving up on that last little bit, though.

 

[Charlie_mta]

Yup - I believe also where the new Eastern Standard was supposed to go in. I will say given the pace/progress on this, I have often wondered if they were just giving up on that last little bit, though.

I'm tending to think they've run out of steam, and will leave that gap in the lid next to Brookline Ave. Time will tell.

 

[Suffolk 83]

They will probably have to put up a tower crane in order to dismantle and pull out the crawler crane no? Im guessing thats the hold up on filling in that gap

 

[393b40]

I'm tending to think they've run out of steam, and will leave that gap in the lid next to Brookline Ave. Time will tell.

That would be a pretty radical design change to the approved plan.. You would have heard about it if that were the case.

They will probably have to put up a tower crane in order to dismantle and pull out the crawler crane no? Im guessing thats the hold up on filling in that gap

I think the boom can be disassembled via smaller cranes. The cab and tracks can probably loaded onto a flatbed if they close the pike down for an evening.

The logistics for doing all of this is kind of nightmarish.

 

[commuter guy]

For some reason I like the Buckminster, hope it can be saved.

It was recently protected as a designated landmark.

 

[dhawkins]

It was recently protected as a designated landmark.

I went back to read the series of events, yeah its a landmark! Thanks for the reassurance!
boston preservation.org

www.boston.gov- report

 

[AndreyD]

 

[itsmikem]

Platform update.

 

[BeeLine]

As of 9/29.

 

[cooper]

As of 9/29.

Nice pics. Looks like that freshly delivered iron in pic 3 will be tying in the gap at the Brookline Ave. bridge soon.

 

[Camberville]

Random question (re: pic #10): why does Lansdowne, a two-track station, have them labelled Track 5 and Track 7?

 

[Stlin]

Random question (re: pic #10): why does Lansdowne, a two-track station, have them labelled Track 5 and Track 7?

Per Wikipedia: on the NEC, which the Worcester Line parallels at Back Bay and ultimately joins at Cove Interlocking:

Tracks 1 and 2 are considered the primary mainline tracks; the track numbering scheme used in the Boston area uses only odd numbers for additional tracks on the Track 1 side (hence Tracks 3, 5, and 7 [at Back Bay] and even numbers for tracks on the Track 2 side. The Orange Line tracks and platform lie between these two groups of mainline rail tracks.

Here, track 1 is the western "southbound main" track, so looking at somewhere like Attleboro which has turnouts to create a 4 track section, it would be tracks 3-1-2-4, and Providence is also 7-5-3-1-2 (7 is the freight passer so it doesn't have a platform, but this is why PVD doesn't officially have a track 4) Once the Worcester Line / CSX Boston sub gets out of "NEC main line" territory it reverts to tracks 1 and 2.