Lyrik Back Bay | 1001 Boylston Street (Parcel 12) | Back Bay

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This has to be top 3 developments in the last 20 years imo. Its only going to get better and better with time as well when the other highway parcels get filled in.
 
stick n move said:
This has to be top 3 developments in the last 20 years imo. Its only going to get better and better with time as well when the other highway parcels get filled in.
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Absolutely agree! One unfortunate reality though is that while this will probably always do the yeoman's work in transforming this area, Parcel 13 is even worse now and really robs this would-be bustling new focal point in the Back Bay.
 
cburns said:
Absolutely agree! One unfortunate reality though is that while this will probably always do the yeoman's work in transforming this area, Parcel 13 is even worse now and really robs this would-be bustling new focal point in the Back Bay.
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I agree. Why has there been no movement on 13? I was walking that area a couple weekends ago with a college friend and his daughters and they all were like, "What's with this massive opening in the road down to the highway??" It's that much more of an eyesore, along with the parcel across the street on Boylston next to Hines. These seem like priority #1 for the city as this building cycle starts wrapping up. The city should be pushing to get these started next year, while drivers under on the Pike are used to these construction lane shifts and the need for residential and hotel in the city continues in high demand. I'm dreaming of a new Boston-tallest at 1000' on the parcel on the Hines side, combined with that parking garage where Bukowski is. I hope that can happen sometime in the next decade or less.
 
If I recall, the proposals were for a midrise lab building subsidizing 100 units of 100% affordable housing. The economics of just the lab building are probably unfavorable now, doubly so for the subsidizing a housing dev and triply so for the complexities in the air rights dev right. Curious to hear if someone paying more attention then me actually knows something real.

I think this proposal is a waste and this would be such a nice location for residential. Probably higher desirability with the much nicer environs than say millennium tower lol.
 
gac108 said:
I agree. Why has there been no movement on 13? I was walking that area a couple weekends ago with a college friend and his daughters and they all were like, "What's with this massive opening in the road down to the highway??" It's that much more of an eyesore, along with the parcel across the street on Boylston next to Hines. These seem like priority #1 for the city as this building cycle starts wrapping up. The city should be pushing to get these started next year, while drivers under on the Pike are used to these construction lane shifts and the need for residential and hotel in the city continues in high demand. I'm dreaming of a new Boston-tallest at 1000' on the parcel on the Hines side, combined with that parking garage where Bukowski is. I hope that can happen sometime in the next decade or less.
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The reality is neither is going to happen any time soon, and most likely not this cycle. For Parcel 11, the partners turned on each other - no idea the current state of the lawsuits and it seems to have permanently fallen apart and is officially cancelled.

For Parcel 13, the city gave it to Peebles, who will almost certainly just sit on it indefinitely as they always do. No idea why they were chosen given the track record, but honestly maybe a good thing given their last proposed landscraper monstrosity of lab space. I say that as someone very much in the camp of anything is better than the Pike. Almost anything, at least.

I think we have a better chance at seeing the massive air rights proposals over by Fenway becoming reality, which is to say very little chance at all to see more air rights projects any time soon
 
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Czervik.Construction said:
It was incredibly windy when standing in the common space between the buildings on Friday with the wind funneling between the 2 buildings.

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The hotel actually has an interlock and warning light on the door out to that patio from their bar that locks it out in high wind conditions. The wind can be quite vicious between the buildings. It throws the light furniture around.
 
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