Millennium Tower (Filene's) | 426 Washington Street | Downtown

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BostonUrbEx said:
Random factoid:

At 442 units, assuming 1 permanent resident per unit, and a 64,400 sq ft parcel, the density of this parcel alone will be in excess of 191,000 residents per square mile.

I think. Maybe my math is wrong -- it seems crazy high.
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Urb -- there is a concept known as "reductio ad absurdum" which is sometime instructive in looking at what seems "Maybe my math is wrong -- it seems crazy high"

Consider just your self -- when you stand upright you occupy less than 1 sq ft [unless you are Gov Christie] -- that translates to over 25 Million people per square mile -- at that density Greater Boston would host the population of the earth with room to spare

By comparison that approximately 200k per mi^2 of MT is wilderness
 
This one is now 40 floors folks! I spoke with a construction worker this evening, Tom, who is installing the facade on the 27th floor at the moment. He showed me some cool photos from 27 of Back Bay and Downtown. Sounds like we are now working on 41 out of 56.

I have a million bajillion pictures to come, but I'll try to keep it reasonable.
 
This is no time for reason son.

I want to see an absurd number of photos from you.
 
I am easily persuaded. This one is a true labor of love for me. I'm obsessed with Millennium Tower!

From 7/7 part 1 of 6









 
From 7/7 Part 5 of 6 getting up close and personal















 
Awesome photo dump.

This thing is now taller than what the original proposal was.

And if it's only at 40 floors right now, we still have a significant way to go.
 
I go out of my way to walk by every morning on the way to the office. It's exciting to be around.
 
Jahvon09 said:
How many floors are left to reach the top?
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15, I believe. Although marketed as 60 floors, there are only 55 shown on the NPC. There was a discussion about this earlier in the thread, as I recall.
 
The first five floors in the pedestal are followed by floor 11 above, so I think this building will be 60 numbered floors with only 55 actual floor plates. So the question is, are they up to numbered floor 40--which would mean they have 20 more floors to go, or are they up to the 40th actual floor, in which case they only have 15 to go?
 
Doing a squinty count of the floors in the photos above, I count 35 floors above the pedestal, so I think that means we have 15 floors to go. The final height, minus mechanicals, should be about equivalent to taking the portion that is currently unclad (including the concrete form system) and doubling it.
 
chumbolly said:
The first five floors in the pedestal are followed by floor 11 above, so I think this building will be 60 numbered floors with only 55 actual floor plates. So the question is, are they up to numbered floor 40--which would mean they have 20 more floors to go, or are they up to the 40th actual floor, in which case they only have 15 to go?
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If you all refer to a couple posts above my pictures I mentioned that I spoke directly with one of the construction workers for this project. There are now 40 fully formed floors, out of apparently 56. They are installing the glass on 27 right now. It literally jumped from 39 to 40 between Sunday to Tuesday, which is nice because it seemed to have stalled for a moment there.

For those of you who prefer to trust your own eyes, there are 5 base floors plus that indented floor above it. Then the "regular" floors start at 7. Right now there are 20 of those floors fully glassed up (so 26 total) with glass currently being installed on 27. There are 11 shell floors between the fully glassed ones and the yellow mesh, then the last 3 are behind the mesh. 5+1+20+11+3 = 40.
 
^Thanks for clearing that up. Using this thread as a timeline, it looks like they've built 34 floors of the tower above the base in approximately the last 8 months. With 16 floors to go, I wonder if this will be topped out before Halloween.
 
chumbolly said:
^Thanks for clearing that up. Using this thread as a timeline, it looks like they've built 34 floors of the tower above the base in approximately the last 8 months. With 16 floors to go, I wonder if this will be topped out before Halloween.
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This barely moved an inch in February. I bet if you started the timeline a little later you'd notice a much faster average build. (and this is still a floor a week already)
 
This is from 3/27. Less than 3 1/2 months. Just under 15 weeks.

I count 5 glass floors here. Now it's at 20 as of yesterday. 9 formed floors above that, vs 14 also as of last night. So it has grown 20 floors in less than 15 weeks!!!

DZH22 said:
I have awesome news for MT. The tower has grown more this week than any other week it's been U/C, by a lot. We are talking a full floor and a half since Sunday! It's now 20 floors on the Washington Street side. If they can keep up this pace the tower will absolutely skyrocket. It seems like there's a lot of chatter now about it in the community. People who otherwise do not share ArchBoston's general enthusiasm are joining in our excitement for this project.

Here's a crappy quality cell phone pic from tonight.

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