Forecaster Building Addition |121-127 Portland Street | West End

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^ Is this the back corner of the site? What's going to be happening here? New entryway, pocket park?
 
yes, back corner. i think they're just covering the wall in a similar fashion as the panels on one canal.
 
I still don't understand why they had to tear down the perfectly fine brick veneer that was already there.
 
^ Insulation from exterior wall for LEED cert? Maybe some sort of digital installation to activate this space?
 
I get that the original contractor on this job apparently wasn't qualified for task and that the current contractor probably had to spend quite a bit of time fixing the last guy's mistakes, but this project has to be setting records for slowest rehab/addition.
 
^ Also makes you wonder if they found any structural issues / added scope related to the condition of the building. Any insiders know if that's the case here, or was it really just GC issues?
 
After a nuclear winter, there will only be cockroaches and this building under construction.
 
I am a strong supporter of historic preservation but I think it would have been better, and definitely faster, if they had demolished this building and started from scratch with a new building on the site.
 
TomOfBoston said:
I am a strong supporter of historic preservation but I think it would have been better, and definitely faster, if they had demolished this building and started from scratch with a new building on the site.
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I would like this building a whole lot more if that garbage addition on top had never happened.
 
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