Motor Mart Tower | 201 Stuart Str. | Park Sq | Boston

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dhawkins said:
I would rent small Mazda 3 cars from Hertz and all I could think to myself is how many 1970s Cadillac Devilles, Lincoln Continentals and Delta 88s got scratched trying to navigate that garage.
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Nah. The highlight of my day in the 80’s was flogging a 300 SDL up those ramps as fast as I could to my favorite space on the 8th floor. Never so much as a kiss! A few nervous pedestrians though.
 
They also dug up a small stretch of sidewalk on the Stuart St. side the other day--probably the same crew.
My wife used to work in the area and frequently parked in the garage. She drove a full size Ford Bronco and never got a scratch on it. Anyway, it will be nice to see this plus the project across the street going up more or less at the same time.
 

Some movement on this. The developer was scheduled to go before the Air Pollution Control Commission today as part of its transportation requirements under the initial approval back in 2020. The filing does not indicate anything else on project timeline aside from "the Project is in the process of coordinating a Transportation Access Plan Agreement (TAPA) with the Boston Transportation Department (BTD)."
 
That seems like an awful lot of parking that they're keeping in the interior of the existing garage for a building so walkable to multiple T stations. I understand the layout would make it difficult to have interior apartments with outside windows, but there are some sides that have parking along outside-facing walls. They could make the floorplans for each apartment bigger at least and then maybe add some common room spaces toward the interior, something other than 8 levels of parking! Otherwise, I'm thrilled this looks to be moving forward as it was one I had been hopeful for since it first popped up long ago.
 
Another sad story for Boston. Interest rates started rising significantly in around March 2022. It is now the start of 2026 and the plan is what? Wait for interest rates to return to an ahistorical near-zero? Wait for a new president to remove tariffs? Wait for unions to lower their rates? The rest of the country isn't waiting.
 
Fully approved and permitted projects like this one would not have to go by the city’s updated affordable units and other guidelines correct?
 
Mike said:
There isn't much to look forward to these days. A good time to finally buy a skyline picture for my wall now that it isn't going to change for years.
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The Lyra is the last high-rise in my book to look forward to. It's not a race by any means, but I am worried it will be a while before we get new proposals or it may feel like Boston may lag behind the rest.
 
Lightning43 said:
The Lyra is the last high-rise in my book to look forward to. It's not a race by any means, but I am worried it will be a while before we get new proposals or it may feel like Boston may lag behind the rest.
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I assume you're leaving out Cambridge then? Because Vega seems to be by far the most exciting thing left. One of the Volpe buildings is also supposed to be even (slightly) taller.
 
SuffolkHeights11 said:
Another sad story for Boston. Interest rates started rising significantly in around March 2022. It is now the start of 2026 and the plan is what? Wait for interest rates to return to an ahistorical near-zero? Wait for a new president to remove tariffs? Wait for unions to lower their rates? The rest of the country isn't waiting.
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Half the country is waiting, specifically the blue half thanks to the current administration choking out investments into major cities. We best hope the midterm reverses some of the damage they have done.
 
KentXie said:
Half the country is waiting, specifically the blue half thanks to the current administration choking out investments into major cities. We best hope the midterm reverses some of the damage they have done.
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Who needs Trump when you got Wu? Between Rent Control fears and the IZ, it's going to be a tough sell to build in Boston unless you're a Slumlord.
 
I'm the first to criticize the expansion of IZ, but there are many fully commercial buildings that were proposed but never started. Right down the street from this project the Skanska project at 380 Stuart has been at a standstill for at least a year. The lab collapse has also halted some big projects. Other air rights projects and various commercial infill have also stalled out. The interest rate and materials cost issue is very real.
 
jklo said:
Who needs Trump when you got Wu? Between Rent Control fears and the IZ, it's going to be a tough sell to build in Boston unless you're a Slumlord.
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That's fear mongering. Rent control exists in Los Angeles for years and they are still building residential high rises today and had a significant boom in the 2010s
 
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