Lyrik Back Bay | 1001 Boylston Street (Parcel 12) | Back Bay

[FitchburgLine]

Approved by BPDA

 

[Equilibria]

Approved by BPDA

Construction targeted in 2020:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/busines...3GqC7XUtRDnRGTh0yGOJ/story.html?event=event25

 

[DZH22]

Is it confirmed that this went from one of the most colorful, exciting proposals in the city to 2 dull, plain white buildings? The BPDA continues to do this city wrong, one sterilizing decision after another.

 

[Equilibria]

Is it confirmed that this went from one of the most colorful, exciting proposals in the city to 2 dull, plain white buildings? The BPDA continues to do this city wrong, one sterilizing decision after another.

Yes, but someone commented on the prior page that the BPDA isn't responsible for that - Samuels made that change to save money.

 

[JSic]

Its still a great project. But, man, the green would have made iconic, a Boston landmark.

 

[Czervik.Construction]

Better than that dilapidated bus stop that wreaks of pee.

 

[DZH22]

Yes, but someone commented on the prior page that the BPDA isn't responsible for that - Samuels made that change to save money.

This is a question I honestly don't know the answer of. Are green panels somehow a lot more expensive than white/grey panels? I feel like the cost should be around the same, regardless of color, assuming it's otherwise the same quality and materials.

 

[JumboBuc]

The render the BPDA tweeted out yesterday, which is featured on the project page, includes the green panels. So I really don't know what's going on here...

 

[dshoost88]

The render the BPDA tweeted out yesterday, which is featured on the project page, includes the green panels. So I really don't know what's going on here...

Page 8 of this slideshow from a presentation made last week to the BPDA appears to be the approved design.

 

[odurandina]

^^and??

 

[jpdivola]

Construction targeted in 2020:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/busines...3GqC7XUtRDnRGTh0yGOJ/story.html?event=event25

I'm gonna take the over on this one.

 

[Equilibria]

https://www.bisnow.com/boston/news/...ess-with-mass-pike-air-rights-projects-100430

Sperance has a lot of hemming and hawing from Mr. Peebles, predicting that the Viola will finalize design next year. General discussion of the lags on air rights projects. Samuels is all optimism.

 

[bigpicture7]

Geo rig drilling at the site this morning...

 

[cjbski]

YES!! Great sign.

 

[odurandina]

Jaysus! A construction project starting on time!

 

[Equilibria]

YES!! Great sign.

Worth noting that there were drilling rigs at 1000 Boylston within the last year, too...

 

[Neon]

Geo rig drilling at the site this morning...

Today

 

[Equilibria]

Banker and Tradesman has CarGurus anchoring this project, so at least that's something no other air rights proposal has ever had.

Maybe they can force Samuels to bring back the colors.

 

[12345]

Two sources familiar with the deal said fast-growing CarGurus has a letter of intent to lease roughly 300,000 square feet in the 540,000-square foot-building, though they stressed that such a step is short of a signed lease, and either party could still walk away.

CarGurus may move to tower planned for over the Mass. Pike - The Boston Globe

Online auto seller CarGurus, now based in Cambridge, has an agreement to lease a large portion of a new office building at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Boylston Street.

www.bostonglobe.com

 

[Neon]

TodayView attachment 23

Walked by this afternoon and a gentleman making the same markings on the Newbury Street/Mass Pike entrance and grassy median side of the site as when they marked and soil tested on the Boylston St side. Plans in his hand were of the site and I tried to get a close up of them until he noticed me taking photos and I stopped.