Open Space | Turnpike Parcel 21 | Chinatown

Interesting, from the link it looks like they've already selected a preliminary proposal and awarded the first contract. Anyone have anything on this? Didn't see it on the city website or Google/Stoss website:

We posted the Request for Proposals (RFP) on December 11, 2023, and received proposals from ten (10) teams (listed below). After thorough deliberations, we have awarded the contract to the team led by Stoss, Inc.
 
Justbuildit said:
Interesting, from the link it looks like they've already selected a preliminary proposal and awarded the first contract. Anyone have anything on this? Didn't see it on the city website or Google/Stoss website:

We posted the Request for Proposals (RFP) on December 11, 2023, and received proposals from ten (10) teams (listed below). After thorough deliberations, we have awarded the contract to the team led by Stoss, Inc.
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I would assume the proposal was for the scope of professional services to be provided to the city; ie, for leading and doing the design work for this community process.
Boston Transportation Department issued an RFP for consultants for public engagement, planning, feasibility assessment, and design services for the Reconnecting Chinatown project. The objective is to design and provide public realm improvements and feasibility assessment for future development projects over parcels 19, 20, 21, and 22 over the Massachusetts Turnpike in Chinatown. Three years; estimated budget is $2 million.
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Justbuildit said:
Interesting, from the link it looks like they've already selected a preliminary proposal and awarded the first contract. Anyone have anything on this? Didn't see it on the city website or Google/Stoss website:

We posted the Request for Proposals (RFP) on December 11, 2023, and received proposals from ten (10) teams (listed below). After thorough deliberations, we have awarded the contract to the team led by Stoss, Inc.
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The Stoss website mentions that they won it, but I couldn't find any public record of their proposal - I guess there might be something in the meeting slides this weekend.
 
Aside from stitching together the city by decking over that scar of a superhighway, it'd be nice to reclaim some land for the smallest Chinatown in any major U.S. city. The neighborhood punches well above its weight -- look on YouTube or do a search and there are plenty of folks (non locals) who feel that, despite the small size, it's one of the best in the nation, or more -- but Chinatown deserves more than what's befallen it historically and this'd be some nice potential healing of previous missteps.
 
I still wish they would have made an overarching masterplan that would have made it so when back bay station is renovated they created a pedestrian pass through, and then whatever they end up doing with the air rights parcels has a bike/ped path that connects to the southwest corridor park at that end and the greenway at the other. If you connected them all you would have a bike/ped path from north station in the bulfinch triangle to mass ave ol station in the south end.

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stick n move said:
I still wish they would have made an overarching masterplan that would have made it so when back bay station is renovated they created a pedestrian pass through, and then whatever they end up doing with the air rights parcels has a bike/ped path that connects to the southwest corridor park at that end and the greenway at the other. If you connected them all you would have a bike/ped path from north station in the bulfinch triangle to mass ave ol station in the south end.

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Hopefully they leave a pathway through the decked over Pike parcels, to tie through as you show.
 
It's strange the City's materials bill this as "Reconnecting Chinatown" when much of the historic built environment in this area predates Chinese arrival.
 
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