TomOfBoston
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But...but...what about those dreaded, evil shadows that this building will create???
Bigeman -- Atlataden is right -- this is an easy way for Wash to show progress toward his ambitious goal to add thousands of units to Boston's housing stock as NU takes these students out of the local market
Since NU owns the land and its currently just a parking lot -- the popular NIMBY or BANANA argument is obviated that this land is "historic whatever"
By teaming with the private student dorm company from Austin with private financing its a cheap way for NU to meet its commitment to house the students on campus
I predict -- highly expedited approval and construction underway on schedule
Cynical me says NEU will just increase the size of it's classes and nullify the addition of dorms.
Northeastern wants to rise in the rankings and more freshmen would mean lower admission standards. That will not happen.Cynical me says NEU will just increase the size of it's classes and nullify the addition of dorms.
Northeastern wants to rise in the rankings and more freshmen would mean lower admission standards. That will not happen.
More on the new dorm - 20 stories, Elkus, yadda yadda, with render.
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2016/01/13/northeastern-residence-hall-burke-street/
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Here is the pnf for the dorm (may want to bump it out at this point or once it gets going to its own thread):
http://www.bostonredevelopmentauthority.org/getattachment/56a3e8d4-fbb8-447d-b393-3301093317e4
This is going to be a high quality piece of architecture. Whether you like it stylistically or not we should all be happy this quality of work is being done. It will stand as an example of what high quality architecture can be ... not unlike the Ferdinand project in Dudley.
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