Marriott Moxy Hotel | 240 Tremont Street (Parcel P-7A) | Theater District

DZH22 said:
Really, this is the building that keeps you here? No here interest in 1 Dalton, Hub on Causeway, Wynn Casinos, or the MXD Office Tower at 145 Broadway? (ie no interest in the 4 tallest, highest impact buildings U/C in the area?)
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I suspect that comments like this are at least part of the reason why found5dollar "was planning on giving up on this forum"...

I am happy for found5dollar's excitement in this building and looking forward to any details that he can provide.
 
JumboBuc said:
I suspect that comments like this are at least part of the reason why found5dollar "was planning on giving up on this forum"...
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First of all, if the guy is sitting across the street from this then he's already more informed and up-to-date on the progress than the rest of the forum.

Second of all, where else can you go for all the picture updates around town, including many great angles of the tallest building since the Hancock, as well as the transformation around North Station? Not to mention Beeline's constant updates of literally everything.

I mean, this building looks fine, but in the scheme of things it's going to disappear and he's basically taunting us by not posting pictures himself. The pictures on this site are worth 100x more than everybody's stupid opinions, including yours, mine, and his. If you're going to sit across the street from the only building you care about anyway, you might as well give up on the forum.
 
JumboBuc said:
I suspect that comments like this are at least part of the reason why found5dollar "was planning on giving up on this forum"...

I am happy for found5dollar's excitement in this building and looking forward to any details that he can provide.
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thank you.
 
found5dollar said:
thank you.
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Ditto to Jumbo. Insights/observations on this and nearby projects are much appreciated. Some forumers have trouble seeing the trees from the forest, but not all of us.

This building is special. It has really unique geometry (super skinny in one dimension), with a pronounced cantilever over the sidewalk and a foundation that goes beneath the sidewalk (essentially, the building is a submerged "C" with the sidewalk in the middle). All that and it serves to inject more life/vibrancy into the theater district area.

This too is one of the current ones I'm really excited about.
 
JumboBuc said:
I suspect that comments like this are at least part of the reason why found5dollar "was planning on giving up on this forum"...

I am happy for found5dollar's excitement in this building and looking forward to any details that he can provide.
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bigpicture7 said:
Ditto to Jumbo. Insights/observations on this and nearby projects are much appreciated. Some forumers have trouble seeing the trees from the forest, but not all of us.

This building is special. It has really unique geometry (super skinny in one dimension), with a pronounced cantilever over the sidewalk and a foundation that goes beneath the sidewalk (essentially, the building is a submerged "C" with the sidewalk in the middle). All that and it serves to inject more life/vibrancy into the theater district area.

This too is one of the current ones I'm really excited about.
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Bingo.

FFS DZH, this is ARCHboston. Emphasis on the ARCH. It's not SkyscraperBoston. It's not TallBoston. It's archBoston. God forbid anyone like some non skyscraper architecture that's going up.

Add me to the list of people who are looking forward to this unique development. It should be a great addition to the urban quality of Stuart Street in both function and aesthetic.
 
DZH22 said:
The pictures on this site are worth 100x more than everybody's stupid opinions,
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Beeline, Golden Retrievers, DZH, and many others really make this site incredible. The urban realm, infill, mid-rise, highrise, and skyscraper photography makes my day.
 
datadyne007 said:
FFS DZH, this is ARCHboston.
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FFS for the follow-up I commented on the lack of logic of the post. If there were a bunch of new pictures and he said that it, it's one thing. But there hadn't been an update in 10 days, he was staring right at the building in person, and somehow that's the impetus for staying on this site? If anything logic dictates that he was satiating his own curiosity where ARCHboston was coming up short.

Also you took my initial words and exaggerated/twisted them. Nobody said you aren't allowed to like other buildings. I just expressed my surprise that this was the SINGULAR building keeping him here, especially since "here" wasn't providing anything he wasn't getting for himself! FFS Datadyne.

At least we have Beeline to actually offer something constructive here.
 
^ DZH, the photos of the skyline you just posted from Arlington of 1 Dalton/the skyline are beautiful and I appreciate them.

Here, however, you are twisting this just as much as anyone else. Found5dollar never said this was the only building keeping him on aB; s/he specifically said he wanted to focus on mid-rise theate-related buildings, and he did give a (modest) construction status update in the post...in all fairness, there was nothing to complain about regarding found5dollar's post; it was not any more useless than most of the other posts on here in a given day (including many of my own). This person "had a moment" where they wanted to express appreciation for a certain project. So be it. I appreciate the diversity of opinions/preferences/viewpoints on this site, and (along with Data, Jumbo, etc) do not mind. If you choose to use this site to track tall buildings, so be it, but there's no need to shit on others who use the site to track ARCHitectural developments for which it's intended.
 
bigpicture7 said:
^ DZH, the photos of the skyline you just posted from Arlington of 1 Dalton/the skyline are beautiful and I appreciate them.

Here, however, you are twisting this just as much as anyone else. Found5dollar never said this was the only building keeping him on aB; s/he specifically said he wanted to focus on mid-rise theate-related buildings, and he did give a (modest) construction status update in the post...in all fairness, there was nothing to complain about regarding found5dollar's post; it was not any more useless than most of the other posts on here in a given day (including many of my own). This person "had a moment" where they wanted to express appreciation for a certain project. So be it. I appreciate the diversity of opinions/preferences/viewpoints on this site, and (along with Data, Jumbo, etc) do not mind. If you choose to use this site to track tall buildings, so be it, but there's no need to shit on others who use the site to track ARCHitectural developments for which it's intended.
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Read my first post in reaction. There was no shitting on anybody. Was I incredulous? Yes, but I wasn't taking any dumps. I didn't bare my teeth without provocation. In this case, it was a pretty direct insult.
 
DZH22 said:
Read my first post in reaction. There was no shitting on anybody. Was I incredulous? Yes, but I wasn't taking any dumps. I didn't bare my teeth without provocation. In this case, it was a pretty direct insult.
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I'm not going to quibble over the definition of shitting on. As Jumbo perceived, and so did I, your first post was offputting to f5d (who's to say what someone should or shouldn't want to see / want to track on here?). Maybe some of us don't want to lose people like f5d. Anyway, I'm calling it a night. Though we disagree, I still appreciate your photos.
 
I'm sitting in the panera bread across the corner from this and they are currently installing that platform style construction scaffolding around the base of the core which has the forms removed.
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Come on over to The Tam and we can toss one or several back while cheering the mid-rise infill on.
 
I was on the bus the other day with two people wearing Wilbur Theatre caps. I had to ask:

"So, what's it like working as a Wilbur Theatre staffer during the construction? Isn't it disruptive?"

Answer: "It's awful. We get into screaming matches with the construction workers every day to beg them not to do something."

From a standpoint of sheer, wildly unmitigated dysfunctionality with the abutter, this has to be one of the most fascinating development projects in a long long while in Boston, I'd think.... compounding, of course, what a horrific fiasco it is to have shut-down the sidewalk in an area where thousands of inebriated stumbling club patrons have to negotiate hundreds of vehicles each weekend night. If this project finishes without a serious pedestrian injury or fatality, does that qualify as a minor miracle?

P.S. The staffer said that the finished hotel will actually overhang the Wilbur's loading dock area, but I couldn't tell if this was perceived as a future benefit or annoyance.
 
As long as it doesn't cause clearance issues that is probably a benefit because it protects sets and other items from getting damaged by precipitation during load in.
 
The Moxy has a great name. Notice how from the street, AVA (a mere 313') looks a good ways taller than the Seaport boxes. i like that the Moxy will be the tallest 273' tower in the history of the Boston Metro.

'The Mystic' (calling it that cuz it doesn't have a name) over there in Everett will be the shortest 372' tower in existence.
 
DBM said:
From a standpoint of sheer, wildly unmitigated dysfunctionality with the abutter, this has to be one of the most fascinating development projects in a long long while in Boston, I'd think.... compounding, of course, what a horrific fiasco it is to have shut-down the sidewalk in an area where thousands of inebriated stumbling club patrons have to negotiate hundreds of vehicles each weekend night. If this project finishes without a serious pedestrian injury or fatality, does that qualify as a minor miracle?
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The whole intersection is closed to most vehicles by the police around 2am to allow the clubs to empty out into the streets. Very visible police presence walking around too.
 
sm89 said:
The whole intersection is closed to most vehicles by the police around 2am to allow the clubs to empty out into the streets. Very visible police presence walking around too.
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Yea, but it's still a shit show when the dinner to theater and theater exit transitions happen.
 
DBM said:
From a standpoint of sheer, wildly unmitigated dysfunctionality with the abutter, this has to be one of the most fascinating development projects in a long long while in Boston, I'd think.... compounding, of course, what a horrific fiasco it is to have shut-down the sidewalk in an area where thousands of inebriated stumbling club patrons have to negotiate hundreds of vehicles each weekend night. If this project finishes without a serious pedestrian injury or fatality, does that qualify as a minor miracle?
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https://www.google.com/maps/dir/MOX...319eead90a!2m2!1d-71.0622268!2d42.3540655!3e2

Which demonstrates the 29 stories at 533 Washington (Felt Nightclub tower) should also be rising... there was never a strong reason to stop that project other than a flimsy conspiracy theory. The corrupt abutter should have worked with the developer.
 
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