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

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It was SO nice walking through the intersection of Washington & Franklin/Bromfield to get lunch just now without having to worry about a million cabs and huge delivery trucks plowing through the intersection!

Also, they are finishing up jersey barriers along that stretch of Franklin including high walls, so we'll have to reach our cameras over the wall to get progress pix.
 
I thought it was part of the DTX pedestrian zone, anyways. It should be closed to auto traffic most hours. The fact that it is heavily used by pedestrians, can close for nearly a year without major effect, and is adjacent to the DTX pedestrian blocks, tells me that is should be pedestrianized.

Temple Pl between Washington and Tremont, and Washington between West and Temple Pl should be as well.

Yup, there is no point in allowing cars on those section of streets. Its dangerous with so many pedestrians allowed and it makes the neighborhood less pleasant. Same goes for Union Street down by the Holocaust Memorial. They even let cars down the cobblestone alleyway off Union which may be the most ridiculous of all.
 
Very good guesses, the photo was taken from Mass general's Ellison tower, 19th floor visitors lounge right off the elevators. I think the building has a few more floors, maybe up to 24 stories in all. I visited a co worker who is on the mend from a leg injury. You didn't hear it from me but for all you photographers out there, it's very easy public access, aside from a sign that says "visiting lounge reserved for patients and visitors only". Also the lounge was small and empty when I was there.
 
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Commuting home today and it looks to me that Millennium is now taller than anything downtown except One Boston Place- though ground elevation does (and perspective might) play into that as well.
 
Is it just me or does anyone else think the old Holiday Inn, now Wyndam, on Blossom St looks pretty darn good with that paint job?
 
Very good guesses, the photo was taken from Mass general's Ellison tower, 19th floor visitors lounge right off the elevators. I think the building has a few more floors, maybe up to 24 stories in all. I visited a co worker who is on the mend from a leg injury. You didn't hear it from me but for all you photographers out there, it's very easy public access, aside from a sign that says "visiting lounge reserved for patients and visitors only". Also the lounge was small and empty when I was there.

It goes to 22, but some floors are not public access. Each floor has a lounge and for the floors open to the public, so is the lounge. Be mindful of families who actually are visiting patients if you go.

The Lunder, Wang and Yawkey Buildings also all have good views as well, but not as tall. Lunder in particular has a back view of the brick part of the Liberty Hotel which actually is a really nicely done building and from the most public vantages overshadowed by the former jail building and the ugliness of MEEI. But if you ask me, it doesn't get anywhere near enough appreciation on here...
 
Sorry if this has been answered already, but has MT topped out? If not, how many floors to go? Thanks
 
The lastest offical info we have is of 8/18
Apparently MT is at 520 feet and will be 60 stories (but still the previously discussed 685 ft)

At 520 feet above downtown Boston, the upper reaches of the Millennium Tower are open to the sky, a few fingers of steel girders and temporary fencing framing workers spreading concrete for each new floor — a third of an acre every other day.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/business...wn-crossing/AiK6LiMxSmiwKIbb837uHN/story.html
Great article. Thanks for sharing!

Incredible progress:
Unlike other Boston towers that were framed with steel, the Millennium is being formed by concrete, pumped upward through hoses to the top floor — the 50th last week — where workers pour it into forms arranged like tabletops over the floors below. With the concrete still wet, they layered in rebar to stiffen and strengthen each 17,000-square-foot pad, and punch about 500 holes, or “sleeves,” to allow mechanical systems to run vertically through the tower. Workers use GPS to ensure each hole is aligned accordingly.

Down on 34, two men wearing harnesses guide 10-foot panes of glass as a colleague above winches them into place on the outside of the building. In construction parlance, this is known as “the curtain wall” — the blue skin of glass that will give the tower its distinctive look.

Each floor has 140 panes. It takes the team seven minutes to install one, a little faster on a good day.

Floor 27 is a maze of ductwork and vents. Copper water lines snake from floor to ceiling and the outlines of hallways take shape. A transformer distributes power from a main line to lower floors, and digital antennas boost cell services above. There’s even a break room up here, a “sky cafe” that sells coffee, sandwiches, and energy drinks so workers don’t have to schlep down for lunch.

On 22, the walls are framed in, plumbing and electrical installed. Each unit requires 140 distinct “construction activities,” Michaels said, and the subcontractors complete a floor every week. Each Monday they begin again on the next.

Down on 7, the units are pretty much ready: new white carpeting and floors of Croatian hardwood, Sub-Zero refrigerator and marble kitchen island. The air is thick with fresh paint, and blue masking tape marks a needed touch-up.

By this time next year, condos on the lower floors should be lived in, while above them Suffolk and Millennium put the finishing touches to the tower’s most expensive units, before moving onto their next project.
 
The lastest offical info we have is of 8/18

I already debunked this, (post 6549) in that the writer mistakenly calculated it as 50/60 stories, times 625', which comes to 520'. It should have only been 50/56, or maybe even 50/55.

By the way, these are from today, from near Alewife. I'm guessing it's at 52 stories.



 
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