Northeastern eyes dorms

^^Not every university needs to be the next Ohio State. They can better utilize the space they have in their vicinity. I do not see a reason for them to travel down Melnea Cass. The have the air rights over the train tracks and I believe they are still in negotiation for the baseball field and tennis courts on Columbus Ave.

If anything they should buy WIT and do some re-development of there. Destroy WIT not south end and lower Roxbury. Those communities deserve better.
 
Whatever Northeastern does, I would hope they don't touch the baseball field and tennis courts. Those are recreational facilities used by the neighborhood!
 
I hear they are trying to build *behind* them, air rights over the T tracks. . . that would at least connect the campus as if the tracks weren't even there.
 
This is going to be a really oafish comment but the NU campus to me is an eye sore. I don't like it aesthetically at all.
 
shockingboston said:
If anything they should buy WIT and do some re-development of there. Destroy WIT not south end and lower Roxbury. Those communities deserve better.
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Destroy Wentworth? Dare I say Wentworth's main campus quad rivals or surpasses (at least from a planning perspective) any building or space on the NU campus? Why would you have that destroyed?
 
castevens said:
I hear they are trying to build *behind* them, air rights over the T tracks. . . that would at least connect the campus as if the tracks weren't even there.
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Yes, the parking lot between the orange line and Carter Playground (the Camden Lot) is on the IMP to be used for administrative and academic purposes with I a max height of 10 stories/height 140 ft/cost $150 million/ 370,000 sf. Unofortunately, I don't think air rights are part of the campus master plan just yet.

I'd upload the chart I have of all the proposed buildings but I guess imageshack.com is no more? Anyone know of a website that is free/easy to use?
 
eaalkaline said:
Yes, the parking lot between the orange line and Carter Playground (the Camden Lot) is on the IMP to be used for administrative and academic purposes with I a max height of 10 stories/height 140 ft/cost $150 million/ 370,000 sf. Unofortunately, I don't think air rights are part of the campus master plan just yet.

I'd upload the chart I have of all the proposed buildings but I guess imageshack.com is no more? Anyone know of a website that is free/easy to use?
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he's right, imageshack.us is still up, but I use picoodle.com, you don't even have to be a member for it to host a photo (so no log-in) but you can if you want to have a long lasting collection. just browse, upload, copy, paste.
 
...but most of the ca. 1940s (?) whitebrick campus could be torn down without much loss.
 
I'm not at all familiar with this neighborhood, but I'll go out on a limb and assume we are talking about an area with dilapidated row houses and empty lots. If this is incorrect please stop reading here.
If that is the case, however, what this community "deserves" is the complete restoration of the neighborhood to its pre-redlining and blockbusting era.
Unfortunately, due to our 'sins of my father' mentality this will never happen.
Whether the completed destruction of the neighborhood in the name on NU growth is the next best thing is debatable.
 
Well, the area that we are talking about (Roxbury/South End/Fenway intersection) is still too close to the city to have "houses" in the traditional sense. It's mainly crappy apartment buildings and the only real empty lots were created by that halted highway project years back.

As for destruction of the neighborhood, that argument is always on, but it is relatively irrelevant in SOME of the new buildings including this one -- as they were built on top of NU owned parking lots.
 
the Roxbury areaadjacet to NU must have more individual housing projects than anywhere else in the country. Use mapquest to see, the projects start at Northampton st and go all the way to Melina. From NU to Albany st
 
The area does have some rowhouses, being roughly on the boundary between Boston Proper (attached brick houses, "Boston, MA" postal addresses, pre-annexation Boston) and Roxbury (detached wood houses, "Roxbury, MA" postal addresses). Infilling some of it with more rowhouses would be a good way to knit it back to the adjoining South End.
 
ablarc said:
How does a community become deserving? Do you have to apply?
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I guess I kind of got emotional? Melnea Cass should be developed for non-privatized (if that is a word, or just public) use. IMO, the area should be developed with residential, restaurants or even government facilities (yeah I wrote it, I would rather see a government facility than a college development).
 
bdurden said:
Destroy Wentworth? Dare I say Wentworth's main campus quad rivals or surpasses (at least from a planning perspective) any building or space on the NU campus? Why would you have that destroyed?
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Their foorprint is so small how could they go wrong (at least from a planning perspective)!!
 
Think it's a natural fit and it would benefit both schools if WIT were to be incorporated as part of NU at some point.

BTW, plenty of "houses" in the area.
 
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