Harvard - Allston Campus

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New residential building

The residential project private developer Samuels & Assoc. plans to build on Harvard University-owned land at Barry's Corner in Boston's Lower Allston area is expected to have 275 to 325 apartments and between 25,000 and 40,000 square feet of ground floor retail space.
The proposal*for North Harvard Street and Western Avenue, which was*presented at a Boston Redevelopment Authority meeting last night, showed that one portion of the property would be 11 stories, making it the tallest building in the area at 115 feet.
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http://www.bankerandtradesman.com/n...utm_campaign=B%26T+Daily+8%2f23%2f12+Campaign
 
^ samuels does good work- see fenway. They are very conscious of the street level experience, which will be the ultimate determinant of success- both here and in fenway.
 
Fucking awesome. Someone please let me know when the next meeting about this thing comes up so I can voice my support. I'm so, so tired of every article in the paper about an A/B development having people bitching about it just to bitch.

BUs dorms are taller, the tower at the HBS is 18 I believe, 33 N Beacon is 10 main floors plus a penthouse and a few mechanical floors where the clock is above that.

Allston has so much potential and I'm ready to fight for it.
 
davem said:
Someone please let me know when the next meeting about this thing comes up so I can voice my support.

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Allston has so much potential and I'm ready to fight for it.
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Hmm, I left early since I was tired of the meetings being about nothing, and I have other overlapping things to do. Looks like I missed something good. 11 stories with 300 apts, nice. Fewer parking spaces than units: good start. Still too many parking spaces, but we're getting somewhere. The sketch shows the buildings up against the sidewalk, excellent. I like the way Harvard has been upfront about the costs of development and the financial tradeoffs in the last couple meetings.

Next one is Sep 12: http://www.bostonredevelopmentauthority.org/calendar/scheduledet.asp?EventID=3115
 
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An article in the Globe behind the paywall outlines the Samuel's development.

The project, though, is subject to a public review process that is already contentious, as some Allston neighbors have complained that the taller building will dwarf others in the neighborhood. And with other nearby Harvard projects still on hold, they fret that the development will not achieve the critical mass needed to revitalize the semidormant area on its own.

“I don’t see this as a place community members are going to flock to,” said Allston Civic Association president Paul Berkeley, who also sits on the Harvard-Allston Task Force
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The Globe also indicates a new basketball arena, Amaker Court (j/k on the name), will be built just to the north of the Samuels project, and south of the current outdoor track (which is south of the stadium).

The land where Charlesview now is is categorized as institutional mixed-use. This was where Harvard was formerly going to build a museum or two. The article indicates that
the former CSX railroad property off Western Avenue will host a privately developed “enterprise research campus” that blends industry and academia in the model of Cambridge’s Kendall Square."
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So its too tall, but not big enough to be a catalyst. Ok so completely dismiss the vocal minority's input and proceed.
 
GW2500 said:
So its too tall, but not big enough to be a catalyst.
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The hypocrocy of that statement made my head spin around.

Also:

Vocal Minority said:
“I don’t see this as a place community members are going to flock to,”
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No, it will create new community members, who will then flock into the surrounding community. Like those businesses that you want to open all along Western Ave...
 
They don't quite get what the "vitalization" part of "revitalization" means, only the "re" - as in, continuing to replicate the status quo.
 
The building going up on western looks huge, sorry, no pics
 
jass said:
The building going up on western looks huge, sorry, no pics
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If its at Brighton Mills (I really hate the "Charlesview" moniker), then yes. Its the "tallest" 6 stories will ever look, compared to its neighbors. I love it.
Also: They are starting to put on the brick cladding. The units are also very generous inside, big bathrooms, nice sized closets, and open kitchens with great windows. No one needs to know how I know this...

Titty... sorry, I mean Tata Hall is also coming along well; I was at the HBS earlier and it already has a commanding presence over Solders Field Park. Next to "Tower", however, its tiny.


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They don't quite get what the "vitalization" part of "revitalization" means, only the "re" - as in, continuing to replicate the status quo.
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+1 Button needed, badly.
 
So the H/A task force meeting was canceled tonight... glad I rescheduled half my employees so I could make it for once
 
Recent renders of the Samuels/Manfredi mixed use at Barry's Corner, near the end of the slides.
http://www.bostonredevelopmentautho...ton Manfredi-Samuels Presentation 10-1-12.pdf

Harvard's Oct 1 slides on revisions to the Institutional Master Plan for Allston. Sketches in a general way what was probably discussed in bit more detail on October 11.

http://www.bostonredevelopmentautho... Allston Harvard IMP Presentation 10-1-12.pdf

Aside from the new basketball venue, Harvard intends to replace two HBS buildings, Kresge (a dining hall near Tata) and Burden (a big auditorium). One new HBS building located on one of the soccer fields across N. Harvard St from the stadium. And a hotel and conference center across Western Ave. from the big HBS parking lot. Another new building, very undefined, would go where Charlesview now is, all the section of Charlesview land nearest Barry's Corner would become a grove of trees.
 
Another gift to HBS. Another new building funded.

The Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center, will be the second Harvard Business School project devoted to training current corporate executives. The school is currently building Tata Hall, with a $50 million donation from the philanthropic arms of the Tata Group, India’s largest company.

But while Tata Hall will consist primarily of dormitory and classroom spaces, the Chao center will feature meeting places, offices and some dining facilities. The Chao center will be designed by the architectural firm of Goody Clancy and replace the existing Kresge Hall on the Allston campus. Construction is expected to begin 2014.
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http://www.boston.com/businessupdat...ness-school/VYW7yTXIuimHeYSTLZWFeO/story.html
 
A few more details on the basketball venue.
http://www.boston.com/yourcampus/ne...te_football_stadium_according_to_reports.html

More details on the projects.

The nine projects falling under the new IMPNF include:

HBS’s Baker Hall (residence facility), slated for renovation sometime between 2014 and 2016, (78,000 square feet, six stories);

HBS’s Kresge Hall (mainly executive-education dining, administrative offices, and classrooms), to be replaced sometime between 2014 and 2016—with plans and lead funding for the project unveiled in a news conference at HBS on Friday (90,000 square feet, four stories);

HBS’s Burden Hall (mainly academic classrooms and a new auditorium), to be replaced sometime between 2016 and 2018 (130,000 square feet, three stories);

a new HBS faculty and administrative office building, to be built sometime between 2018 and 2020 (110,000 square feet, four stories);

a Harvard Stadium addition, sometime between 2017 and 2022, that will house a press box, club seating, an athletics office, and athletic facilities;

a new basketball stadium, located south of Harvard Stadium and the outdoor track, but set back from the intersection of North Harvard Street and Western Avenue (see map), to rise sometime between 2017 and 2022 (60,000 square feet dedicated to the stadium and 40,000 square feet for mixed use and offices, between four and nine stories);

a mixed-institutional-use project, located adjacent to the new basketball stadium along Western Avenue, scheduled for sometime between 2017 and 2022 (200,000 square feet, six to nine stories), mainly for administrative offices with retail on the ground floor (administrators are aiming for an “active” ground floor “full of people”); [this is on Charelesview land]

a hotel and conference center, located east of Western Avenue and adjacent to the south side of the HBS campus, to be built sometime between 2017 and 2022, with the hotel aiming for 150 to 250 rooms and ample conference center space (250,000 plus square feet, six to nine stories); and

Soldiers Field Park Housing Renovation, a housing complex located adjacent to HBS, planned for sometime between 2017 and 2022 (423,000 square feet, three to nine stories high).
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http://harvardmagazine.com/2012/10/...r-allston-campus-unveiled-by-harvard-planners

"The new outline does not include the Health and Life Sciences Center (already approved under the previous IMP), slated for groundbreaking in 2014, nor the Barry’s Corner Housing/Retail Commons, slated for groundbreaking in 2013 with plans to open the following year, which is still in the permitting process"

Groundbreaking is a misnomer, they've already excavated the site to the cost of a pretty penny.
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The price of everything: Kresge cost $2.3 million to build 60 years ago.
http://institutionalmemory.hbs.edu/timeline/1953/kresge_and_aldrich_halls_dedicated.html
 
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