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datadyne007 said:
The chef is there to cook for your private dinner parties. I'd imagine each party could cost upwards of tens of thousands of dollars.
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Isn't it the same chef who operates/owns the private restaurant and the open to the public one below? My goodness, I'd hate to think you'd operate two separate kitchens with dedicated kitchen staff for both. Just prioritize the upstairs food. For those posh dinner parties, staff server folks for those.

But, not having millions of dollars at my disposal, I might be thinking a bit too practically. Profit wise for the operator, my idea sounds much more enticing however.
 
When I was younger, we used to vacation at a condo in Miami (Key Biscayne).

If my memory was correct, there were 12 units per floor, times 2, times 13 floors, and then the same on a second building.

So 624 units.

There was one fitness center, that rarely had more than a single person, a sauna, which I never saw used (aside from myself), a card-room with a pool table and poker table, which never had anyone playing pool or poker, and two pools, which rarely had more than 4 people in each.

There was also a restaurant (but available to the public with a reservation) which apparently did well enough to not go out of business.

The 3 tennis courts did see a lot of use though.

Fact is, people rarely use the stuff. Its mindblowing when they add things like a conference room or "internet center". Such a waste.

Of course for the folks who DO use it, its fantastic. Never any competition.

Theres a building in Newark NJ with a basement bowling alley. If I lived there, I could see myself using it twice a week, and I do wonder if that is popular.
 
jass said:
Theres a building in Newark NJ with a basement bowling alley. If I lived there, I could see myself using it twice a week, and I do wonder if that is popular.
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For professional reasons, I had a tour of that building with one of the developers.

When people had signed a lease, the leasing agent would ask them for their shoe size, and would refuse to tell why. Lots of mystified lease-signers. On move in day, they'd have bowling shoes in their size waiting for them on the kitchen counter. While I was there, the lanes were in use, and the developer asserted they got a lot of use. I obviously can't confirm/refute that. If i lived there, I would be down there bowling on a regular basis. They also had a half-court basketball court down there.

Here's the web site for the apartments.

http://www.eleven80rentals.com/index.php

I couldn't find any shots of the facade on their site, but check it out at this google collation of photos, it's an incredible building:

https://www.google.com/search/?q=11...oB8W4ggSdmYSQCQ&ved=0CFAQ7Ak&biw=1268&bih=608
 
West said:
For professional reasons, I had a tour of that building with one of the developers.

When people had signed a lease, the leasing agent would ask them for their shoe size, and would refuse to tell why. Lots of mystified lease-signers. On move in day, they'd have bowling shoes in their size waiting for them on the kitchen counter. While I was there, the lanes were in use, and the developer asserted they got a lot of use. I obviously can't confirm/refute that. If i lived there, I would be down there bowling on a regular basis. They also had a half-court basketball court down there.

Here's the web site for the apartments.

http://www.eleven80rentals.com/index.php

I couldn't find any shots of the facade on their site, but check it out at this google collation of photos, it's an incredible building:

https://www.google.com/search/?q=11...oB8W4ggSdmYSQCQ&ved=0CFAQ7Ak&biw=1268&bih=608
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Its also priced wonderfully.

$1,523 for a 1 bed, 1 bath, not a studio....which in Boston is priced at double that.

$3,208 for a 2 bed, 2 bath with an enormous balcony on the 27th floor. Not cheap, but cheaper than a 1 bedroom on the 2nd floor with no balcony on those new seaport buildings.

All with significantly better amenities.

And 20 minute train ride to midtown, 35 minutes to Wall Street

10 years from now, prices will be double. Theyre already up $100-$200 from last year.
 
jass said:
Its also priced wonderfully.

All with significantly better amenities.

And 20 minute train ride to midtown, 35 minutes to Wall Street

10 years from now, prices will be double. Theyre already up $100-$200 from last year.
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yep, all true. When i was there, the walk to the train station, though short, was still a bit sketchy. They were running a shuttle van during dark hours, they had a lot of single women who clearly didn't feel safe making that walk alone if they came home from work late. Probably a few single men appreciated the shuttle too I daresay. In general, the development was out in front of the ideal market timing, but over the long run, as you suggest, it's going to do great.

it's also a short walk from the arena that the NJ Devils play in. They had two of the Devils' younger players living there, guys with no children in their lives yet. I do not recall who - not big stars, bit players. The developer said that the players had told him that the workout room in the apartment complex had more machines than the Devils' workout rom. I gave him the side-eye and said (good-naturedly) he was pulling my leg, and he insisted that's what they said.

They were also running a shuttle over to Seton Hall, if I recall correctly, had a bunch of junior faculty and admin types living there. So while the orientation was clearly to the easy commute o Manhattan, there was a local contingent too.
 
And now I'll stop hijacking the thread with talk of Newark properties.
 
GW said:
Not sure if there's any new stuff here, but Curbed just posted a bunch of renderings:

http://boston.curbed.com/archives/2015/02/22-gobsmacking-renderings-of-bostons-millennium-tower.php#more
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GW: -- I think there are a couple of really interesting renderings on Curbed -- the most interesting are on a link on the bottom of the page that you [GW] posted above Three Millennium Tower Penthouses Sell for Over $9M Each [Curbed Boston]
-- is all about what is a Penthouse

http://boston.curbed.com/archives/2014/10/three-of-millennium-towers-17-penthouses-spoken-for.php

Three Millennium Tower Penthouses Sell for Over $9M Each
Tuesday, October 28, 2014, by Tom Acitelli

...Now we have further details on Millennium Tower's penthouse, courtesy of a rep for developer Millennium Partners. The 17 units will be located on the 60-story tower's top five floors. They will range in size from 3,328 square feet all the way up to the nearly 13,000 square feet of the $37.5M spread. That spread also represents (obviously) the uppermost reach of the penthouses' price scale. The cheapest is asking $7,600,000.

And! Lest you think these numbers are much too Manhattan-like for Boston, know this: Three penthouses have already traded. Each went for at least $9,000,000; though the final closings are not yet known.
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Apparently a Millenium-style Uber-Penthouse can be in the Uber-fünf floors and apparently there is a private Uber-park on a private Uber-balcony available at the 55th? floor Uber-Uber - lobby [ as opposed to the Lower-Uber-Lobby or perhaps the Uber-Lower-Lobby?] :) -- probably fed by an exclusive Uber-elevator with stops only for the Ubers or perhaps even a few stops at the pool, and such, if the Ubers - deign to mingle with hoi paloi
 
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West said:
yep, all true. When i was there, the walk to the train station, though short, was still a bit sketchy. They were running a shuttle van during dark hours, they had a lot of single women who clearly didn't feel safe making that walk alone if they came home from work late. Probably a few single men appreciated the shuttle too I daresay. In general, the development was out in front of the ideal market timing, but over the long run, as you suggest, it's going to do great.

it's also a short walk from the arena that the NJ Devils play in. They had two of the Devils' younger players living there, guys with no children in their lives yet. I do not recall who - not big stars, bit players. The developer said that the players had told him that the workout room in the apartment complex had more machines than the Devils' workout rom. I gave him the side-eye and said (good-naturedly) he was pulling my leg, and he insisted that's what they said.

They were also running a shuttle over to Seton Hall, if I recall correctly, had a bunch of junior faculty and admin types living there. So while the orientation was clearly to the easy commute o Manhattan, there was a local contingent too.
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Yeah that part of town is dead after work hours, so I can see why the shuttle would be in demand. Of course, theres also a billion buses that go by, and the Newark subway is nearby too.

But yeah, if every new development included a bowling alley, it would solve all of our problems. All of them.

Newark also has these great units aimed at students

http://univcentre.com/floorplans

$1,399.00 / Monthly for a 1 bed 1 bath fully furnished

And real furniture too

Full-sized refrigerator with ice maker
Garbage disposal
Dishwasher

^^^Thats like a dream list right there

And the amenity list is very impressive

If only Boston was more like Newark
 
palindrome said:
the plebeian in me would like to know how some building amenities work. Do you reserve the screening room? Superbowl for example who gets dibs? What if you wanted to have a party by the pool table and some other resident was already using it?
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In Millennium Place for example, the screening room is "first come, first serve" type of deal. You can also reserve it if your party is begin enough, but you'll be surprised that nobody ever uses the screening rooms. If there is an event like Superbowl, the building will be hosting an event with people RSVP-ing. I can only assume that if you want to hog up the pool table for the night, you'll have to reserve well in advance. At Regatta for example, everyone had to reserve amenities in advance, not so much in Millennium Place. Same applies to a restaurant, it's "first come, first serve" if your party is less than 6 if I am not mistaken. If it's over a specific number of people, you have to reserve and pay reservation fee and a cleaning fee on top. No cleaning fee applies to small parties. But nobody ever eats at MP private dinning room. The bar however, is a different story.

I can only assume that MT will work the same way as MP.
 
jass said:
Yeah that part of town is dead after work hours, so I can see why the shuttle would be in demand......
Newark also has these great units aimed at students....

^^^Thats like a dream list right there

And the amenity list is very impressive

If only Boston was more like Newark
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Surely you are pulling the proverbial chain ;)

1) You would be living in Newark
2) You would be going to school in Newark

That's two strikes -- I'd be studying the next pitch carefully

Now back to the Millenium Tower

My count of the already poured floors on recent photos seems to indicate work is now underway on 15

That's the first real visible milestone -- the tower construction [not just the crane] is starting to become visible from Mem Drive
 
Series of shots showing installation of glass on the backside of the tower, towards the Burnham building, that is. Two guys on the floor above (visible in these shots), two guys on the floor getting installation (not visible in these shots, but I could see them when they prepped). Presumably at least one other person on the boom two floors up. You can just see the green end of that boom poking out. I couldn’t see the operators of that boom. That other guy in the upper foreground, on the same level as the boom, was doing something unrelated to this specific window that was being installed, I think he was removing the plywood spacers that had been in the concrete forms to make the inset for the façade attachment points.

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I just had a private showing with the marketing team. HOLY FUCKING SHIT.

This is a pretty damn good project.

Happy to hear it's doing well with sales. 442 units in the building along with the other residential in the neighborhood may be a tipping point.

Here's to more retail opening over the coming months and years.
 
How much more retail space is left to fill? Roches and the clothing store must take up a big chunk, right?
 
I was told by someone associated with the development that there was a likely chance they were going to secure a health club or gym in the tower portion. No specifics were given, but I'd assume it would be a full sized gym which could be upwards of 40k sq.

The BSC across the street is approximately 30k square feet and the old SCLA (now Equinox) at the Ritz is closer to 90k, I believe.
 
statler said:
How much more retail space is left to fill? Roches and the clothing store must take up a big chunk, right?
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This website has a good detail on it. Basically the entire tower (3 floors) except for the basement isn't leased yet, and a small area facing summer st. isn't leased.
 
^ Stupid nitpick... but Boston.Com is not the Globe anymore.
 
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