Patriot Place | Foxboro

Given that it's all the way out in Foxborough, you would need the parking garages. As for housing, the biggest issue to me would be how noisy the stadium would be and how easy it would be to sell/rent out the units because of stadium noise.

I don't think the crowd noise would be too problematic for residents. If those buildings were all residential, the closest would be over 900 feet away from the stadium. For comparison that's similar to the distance between Fenway Park and Timeout Market, the Kenmore MBTA station, and Queensbury St. Not exactly right on top of it. Decent construction and soundproofing materials should further mitigate the impact. Besides, you're looking at a max of about 14 games per year (inc. preseason and playoffs during an AFC Championship run) vs. 82+ playoffs at Fenway. Revs crowds are about 1/3 (or less) the size of Patriots crowds, and a handful of concerts each year shouldn't be too problematic.

You're right that ample parking would be essential for any residential development in Foxboro. You're most likely not ditching your car(s) if you live in Foxboro, even in a development like Patriot Place. I'd also wager that it would have to go hand-in-hand with some longer term guarantee of continued Foxboro commuter rail service. If I were looking at that development, my big concern would be traffic on game/event days. I think that would be more prohibitive than the potential noise. But the idea of throwing my place (and parking spot) up on Airbnb for football games or Taylor Swift concerts would be extremely appealing. I would wager a 1br condo there could easily get $1k+ on a game night or big concert night.
 
Oldie but goodie from a few weeks ago. Courtesy of Juri Love and the Sun Chronicle. View from atop the new Lighthouse. Good view of the skyline. A few more tall buildings between Boston and Gillette and you have the makings of a de facto new skyline.

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"I must tell you, I was unaware of how bad that was," Kraft said. "We've had a plan, and we put in place, where we're committing a whole new facility adjacent to ours that has been discussed with the young leadership team -- a building that will be in excess of $50 million that will have the most [modern] facilities.
 
I drove by this yesterday and saw the new lighthouse for the first time. No pics but it was among the cheapest looking pieces of crap I have ever seen. From a distance I thought it was a 2nd one of these that you can see by the stadium:

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I think this below picture shows it pretty close to how I see it from Route 1. It looks like it's missing its top, plus the panels are brutally bad. I can't believe this is the final product, and it's worse in every way than the old "lighthouse" they used to have. Has anybody else seen this and do you agree with my assessment?

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This one looked better.
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I think they should have at least made the glass at the top clear and put a light in it that spins like an actual light house. Maybe thats not legal idk but if not they could have just lit it up from within. As it is now its pretty meh.
 
According to Daniel Krantz, director of site development for the Kraft Group, the proposed single-span prefabricated bridge is expected to be completed by early 2026, in time for the upcoming FIFA World Cup soccer games at Gillette Stadium scheduled for that summer.
 
Foxborough has to be among the most virulently anti-housing towns in the Commonwealth. The MBTA zoning question was to re-zone a total of 50 acres (about 0.004 percent of the Town's land area) for multi-family and it failed overwelmingly. I question the wisdom of concentrating so much infrastructure in an area that has such limited land uses.

Foxboro town meeting voters reject MBTA zoning law​

 
I realize the intent of the forum is primarily to discuss architecture but to be critical of the lighthouse seems a bit frivolous (now) as we watch the team crumble. ESPN NFL power ranking for the Patriots is now dead-last.
 
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