DigitalSciGuy
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I hope the new tower spans some redevelopment of the garage across Franklin St. So ugly.
I work in the office building cantelievered above that garage. The contrast between the garage and 33 Arch is jarring let alone the ugliness of the garage.
The least they can do is put lipstick on the pig and put up a new facade on the garage. I'm curious about that building's structural soundness though. How bad does it have to be when you need to add bracing to reinforce the spans? There appear to be bars on some/most of the floors and I'm not quite sure what they're there for.
What I'd really like to see in the future is to have that garage demolished and another building put up in its place that plays well with 33 Arch. 33 Arch appears to be fully structurally independent of the garage, so the garage can really go away into the black hole it came from. (We have an NSTAR substation in our basement and the ramp for the garage as well as more parking take up floors 1-7.)