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

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More of a look, zoomed from near Alewife. Not the greatest quality but a good angle to see the crown. From 10/8.





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I'm all ready to see this thing lit up at night (please, please let it be lit). If it is indeed lit, a cool shot would be to get Millennium's slanted lit roof and Atlantic Wharf's slanted lit roof going in the opposite direction. Probably doable at night coming in on 93 South, in the somewhat distant future.
 
it's amazing how much a glass tower downtown really changes the feel of the whole skyline... in some places, quite strikingly so..
 
Other than the Four Seasons project, stalled John Hancock Conference Center project and convention center-related hotels, there has not been a large hotel built or proposed in Boston in a long time. The hotels currently proposed in Boston (FKA Merano, Chinatown, Yotel) are all limited service hotels with less than 300 rooms.

The City/BRA has allowed numerous projects that were proposed/approved with hotels to convert those buildings or portions of buildings to apartments/condos. Boston does not even have a JW Marriott or Grand Hyatt hotel, brands that are common in large cities worldwide.

Developers such as Fan Pier (Grand Hyatt proposed) and Millennium Tower (hotel proposed for first few floors of tower) have instead been allowed to take the cash and build condos. The City should insist that in exchange for building such large projects, sizable hotels are included. This is common practice in Asia and West Coast projects.
 
navigator4 said:
Other than the Four Seasons project, stalled John Hancock Conference Center project and convention center-related hotels, there has not been a large hotel built or proposed in Boston in a long time. The hotels currently proposed in Boston (FKA Merano, Chinatown, Yotel) are all limited service hotels with less than 300 rooms.

The City/BRA has allowed numerous projects that were proposed/approved with hotels to convert those buildings or portions of buildings to apartments/condos. Boston does not even have a JW Marriott or Grand Hyatt hotel, brands that are common in large cities worldwide.

Developers such as Fan Pier (Grand Hyatt proposed) and Millennium Tower (hotel proposed for first few floors of tower) have instead been allowed to take the cash and build condos. The City should insist that in exchange for building such large projects, sizable hotels are included. This is common practice in Asia and West Coast projects.
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Disagree strongly. More hotel rooms are fine, I guess, but the most pressing need this city has, by far, is housing. Projects that change their planned hotel rooms to apartments are good, not bad, and if the city is going to interfere in the construction industry, it should be to encourage more apartments, not less.

There should be over 20 new hotels and 4,000 new rooms open in the next two years. That's about a 15-20% increase. The increase in housing stock is much smaller.
 
navigator4 said:
Other than the Four Seasons project, stalled John Hancock Conference Center project and convention center-related hotels, there has not been a large hotel built or proposed in Boston in a long time. The hotels currently proposed in Boston (FKA Merano, Chinatown, Yotel) are all limited service hotels with less than 300 rooms.

The City/BRA has allowed numerous projects that were proposed/approved with hotels to convert those buildings or portions of buildings to apartments/condos. Boston does not even have a JW Marriott or Grand Hyatt hotel, brands that are common in large cities worldwide.

Developers such as Fan Pier (Grand Hyatt proposed) and Millennium Tower (hotel proposed for first few floors of tower) have instead been allowed to take the cash and build condos. The City should insist that in exchange for building such large projects, sizable hotels are included. This is common practice in Asia and West Coast projects.
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Navigator -- what do you consider a long time?

The W and the Intercontinental are major brand hotels of the 200+ scale

from the wiki's:
  • W: a 301-feet-tall 26-story building managed by Starwood Hotels as part of the W Hotel chain and was W Hotel's 35th hotel, opening in October 2009 the 235-room hotel, on floors 3-13, and 123 branded luxury residential condominiums, on floors 14-26.
  • Intercontinental: a AAA Four Diamond and Forbes Travel Guide Four Star hotel operated by the InterContinental Hotels
    Group 21 story hotel three food and beverage outlets, 32,000 square feet (3,000 m2) of meeting space, 424 guest rooms, 130 private residences, and the SPA InterContinental opened in November 2006 the first InterContinental Hotel in both Boston and New England awarded the “Hotel Development of the Year” at the Americas Lodging Investment Summit in January 2007 designed by Elkus Manfredi Architects.
 
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After this is done we now have plenty of angled roof glass towers. We also have plenty of flat roof boxes. I think the next step is to build a few towers with spires and give a little decoration to the downtown skyline. If we get something tall as a focal point at the winthrop garage and then some spires dotted over downtown I think the result would be amazing. Hell we could even kill two birds with one stone.

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What's that the b of a tower? Never really been a huge fan, seems awkward and clunky to me. Just like Boston has a bunch of boring brown boxes, I think NYC has too many wanna be empire state buildings with goofy spires and this is one
 
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