Mixed Use Complex | 345 Harrison Ave | South End

This is really gonna be quite a big complex. Will add a nice presence on Harrison here with Ink Block right across the street. Hopefully Harrison is gonna become quite the corridor over he next 5 years with all these buildouts and proposals.
 
This is my favorite development under construction in the city.

I could care less (than others on this forum at least) about 345 Harrison's architectural merits. It's the site programming that impresses the heck out of me.
- Roughly 1-acre site
- 585 units
- 33,500 sq. ft. of retail
- ~10,000 sq. ft. of open space for the public
- rooftop amenity space for the residents
- activating an entire city block
- not a surface parking spot in site

More developments like this coupled with thoughtful infrastructure investment (including transit connectivity, public schools, green energy, and other civic uses) would mean a positive future for Boston.
 
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I agree and feel the same way about One Seaport Square and Parcels M1/M2.
 
I like it..... but I wish it were taller. This is right across from downtown Boston, shit should be taller here
 
Suffolk 83 said:
I like it..... but I wish it were taller. This is right across from downtown Boston, shit should be taller here
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It is also right next to the historic South End, so the heights are a transition zone.

I wish the edge parcels along the Pike were zoned higher. The edge along Albany street/ I 93 is zoned higher, but the Ink Block did not use the height!
 
The Harrison Ave elevation promises to be quite handsome with some real design integrity. The Washington side promises to be quite average and riddled with what have become the design cliches of today. So CBT got it half right anyway.
 
JeffDowntown said:
It is also right next to the historic South End, so the heights are a transition zone.

I wish the edge parcels along the Pike were zoned higher. The edge along Albany street/ I 93 is zoned higher, but the Ink Block did not use the height!
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I live there so I do understand.... there's no "transition zone" between the four seasons tower and the brownstones literally next door.

I personally like height and I personally like lower housing costs in the city. In my opinion the Mayor needs to come out and say whatever the zoning is anywhere in the city, go ahead and increase that number by 20%. I dont know how feasible that would be but we need the housing units to relieve the costs and maybe a blanket move like that would encounter arguments that are have less teeth if you dont restrict it to one site or one neighborhood
 
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