Home for Little Wanderers | 161 South Huntington Ave | Jamaica Plain

The area definitely lost some of its character with this project.

BeeLine said:
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davem said:
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The tragic irony here is that this site was once a home for those in need and now it is becoming luxury housing in a community that needs affordable housing.
 
yes, this one is a very big disappointment. if only they broke it up into many separate buildings, and put it closer to the street. it would still suck, but not as abjectly..
 
they're building almost the same buildings on Washington st in Dorchester at least those were empty lots. I'll get a pic soon!
 
Quick and dirty, cheap and disposable. It will work for now but will cause someone lots of headaches in 20 year. Buyer beware.

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Hopefully, the owner will let the landscaping on the Jamaica way side turn into a jungle - those split faced block looking panels are really nasty.

Anyone care to Ivy bomb* the building? Of course, nothing will hide it during the winter.
* sort of like "yarn bombing, but planting Boston Ivy at the base instead of attaching fuzzy yarn thingies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarn_bombing
 
Reznor said:
Agree - but this is a rental building.
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Someone owns this (developer/landlord)...and that owner will want to sell at some point. Likely what will happen is the owner will hold it for 10 years, just before it starts breaking, and the next owner will be left holding a bag of big money repairs and such. Short sighted .... but it seems to be a successful formula. Build Cheap > Make money back > Sell High > avoid having to take responsibility for the choices made in the design process > rinse repeat > buy large boat
 
This building is a nasty joke on history, architecture, and aesthetics. There really should be a blanket landmark on all pre-WWII buildings in Boston (and any other city).

Assuming the developer's name is Turd Ferguson.
 
itchy said:
There really should be a blanket landmark on all pre-WWII buildings in Boston (and any other city).
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In all seriousness, in a city like Boston which has a ton of pre-WWII buildings, where would new construction be constructed?
 
atlantaden said:
In all seriousness, in a city like Boston which has a ton of pre-WWII buildings, where would new construction be constructed?
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Only a very few (Millennium Tower, "Home for Little Wanderers") of the new under construction development projects on ArchBoston right now are replacing pre-war buildings of any value. Even given Boston's age and density there are still plenty of light industrial (Ink Block area), low-rise commercial (all the stuff in the Fenway), parking lots (Seaport), parking structures (Government Center Garage, Winthrop Square, Aquarium Garage), former road or transitway (Merano, Avenir), air rights (Pike, Widett), vacant (Assembly Row, Wynn Casino, D Street Seaport, Bayside Expo), and un/underused public space (888 Boylston, possible Government Center) parcels to develop.
 
Ugh, why? Why did they not save any of the old building? That new thing is hideous.
 
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