Ink Block (Boston Herald) | 300 Harrison Avenue | South End

I work at Ink Block and they are currently installing a massive digital billboard at the corner of Herald and Albany Street. Pictures to come soon. This will be the most visible billboard in the city
 
ShawnA said:
I work at Ink Block and they are currently installing a massive digital billboard at the corner of Herald and Albany Street. Pictures to come soon. This will be the most visible billboard in the city
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This pretty much tells you that National Development is not planning an Ink Block 7 tower in that corner any time soon. (A building footprint that showed on some earlier plans.)
 
ShawnA said:
I work at Ink Block and they are currently installing a massive digital billboard at the corner of Herald and Albany Street. Pictures to come soon. This will be the most visible billboard in the city
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Pics?
 
Ink Underground is Boston’s first underpass park located between the ciy’s South End and South Boston neighborhoods. This unique space -- part urban park, part public arts and cultural zone, part event facility -- is a space unlike anything seen before in this region.

Spend the day with us. Join us for a fitness class. Ride your bike on the paths that bridge South Boston and the South End. Bring your dog for an evening with the neighborhoods furriest of friends while you sip on a locally brewed beverage at our pop up bar. Watch history being made as local artists transform a once underutilized piece of highway infrastructure into a fun, fresh and enlivening urban oasis
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https://www.ink-underground.com/#/walkability/biking/
 
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I've seen this concept in other cities like Houston, San Diego, and Seoul. It seems to work pretty well and the parks weren't over run with vagrants (at least during the day). The key was having outdoor exercise, cool artwork, and other activities to attract people rather than just being a pass-through.
 
There's a park area under the Zakim so this isn't even a new concept for Boston. It will still be a much appreciated pedestrian connection between South Boston and the South End.
 
I thought I was looking at the proposal for under the Zakim and was shocked when I saw where this was. This will be amazing for that area!
 
TomOfBoston said:
A 5 story wood frame building.....and no firewalls.....
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I believe 5 floors are the max you can do in wood. There must still be firewalls around shafts and floor openings.
 
mdd said:
I believe 5 floors are the max you can do in wood. There must still be firewalls around shafts and floor openings.
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Yep. That's why we see so many six story building going up. It maximizes the profit for a cheap, stick built building. And code is the worse building you can legally build so I am really depressed about what all of this stuff is going to look like in 50 years.

I'm predicting a lot of construction jobs around then.
 
DZH22 said:
There's a park area under the Zakim so this isn't even a new concept for Boston. It will still be a much appreciated pedestrian connection between South Boston and the South End.
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True, but the Zakim is much higher up, and the space beneath it much larger and brighter. This is may be the same concept but it's a much more aggressive version of the concept.
 
estyle said:
Yep. That's why we see so many six story building going up. It maximizes the profit for a cheap, stick built building. And code is the worse building you can legally build so I am really depressed about what all of this stuff is going to look like in 50 years.

I'm predicting a lot of construction jobs around then.
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What are the fire risks in all these wood-frame buildings?
 
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