Quaker Lane + Congress Square | Downtown

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There is an overwhelming smell and almost air conditioning like air when you walk by this thing...anyone know what that could be? Smells almost like mold.
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On which side? I noticed something along those line on the Devonshire side, but I always assumed it was because of the sewer grate on the street.
 
Lrfox said:
On which side? I noticed something along those line on the Devonshire side, but I always assumed it was because of the sewer grate on the street.
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Both but it's definitely worse on the Devonshire side.
 
bigpicture7 said:
I don't disagree, but I've heard the distinction used for specifically when it extends above the roofline. Like, for example, a gabled roof could have a cornice...but not a parapet. But a flat roof could have either/both. I'm not an architect, but I'd actually state that this building has both...the part that juts out horizontally below the roofline...and the cooper part that sticks up above the roofline. I'd say this has a masonry cornice capped with a copper parapet.

If it looks like one of those things on a castle where the guards would hide behind with their bows and arrows, it's a parapet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parapet
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cresting_(architecture)

I just spent way too long studying decorative roof features, just to find a term I should have known already.

As for the moldy air conditioner smell, it's probably exactly what it seems. Stagnant moisture growing mold/mildew.
 
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A New Hyatt Hotel is expected to open at the Congress Square development in late 2018. East Greenwich, Rhode Island-based Magna Hospitality Group will manage the hotel under Hyatt’s new “Centric” urban-format brand. Site is approved for 190 hotel rooms.

http://www.bankerandtradesman.com/2017/04/hyatts-new-urban-format-hotel-coming-congress-square/

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That's good news. Surprisingly few full service hotels in the immediate area besides the Langham.
 
BosDevelop said:
That's good news. Surprisingly few full service hotels in the immediate area besides the Langham.
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Really? Certainly not by my count.

Ames--will have new restaurant soon, making it "full service" in my mind: 50 yards from the project site

Club Quarters--not a conventional chain only in the sense its explicitly business traveler-oriented. But certainly full-service w/ Elephant & Castle. 100 yards from project site.

Parker House--200 yards from project site.

Hotel Nine Zero--200 yards from the project site.

Hilton (on the corner of Broad/Batterymarch)--200 yards from project site.

That's five within a 3-minute walk of the project site. Expand your walking radius to 10-minutes (.5 miles), and you corral the XV Beacon Hotel,
Hyatt Regency, Ritz-Carlton, and Godfrey...
 
Now THAT is a good shot. So it's well on its way.
 
Core officially looks to be taller than the existing building - can't wait for the steel and glass to be installed on this one.
 
DBM said:
Really? Certainly not by my count.

Ames--will have new restaurant soon, making it "full service" in my mind: 50 yards from the project site

Club Quarters--not a conventional chain only in the sense its explicitly business traveler-oriented. But certainly full-service w/ Elephant & Castle. 100 yards from project site.

Parker House--200 yards from project site.

Hotel Nine Zero--200 yards from the project site.

Hilton (on the corner of Broad/Batterymarch)--200 yards from project site.

That's five within a 3-minute walk of the project site. Expand your walking radius to 10-minutes (.5 miles), and you corral the XV Beacon Hotel,
Hyatt Regency, Ritz-Carlton, and Godfrey...
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If you add up the total number of rooms between the Parker House, Nine Zero and Hilton (the other two you admit are not, currently, full service hotels) it's not a ton of total rooms given the location in or near the center of the city.
 
Great picture Kent. You have been the MVP in that department over the last few weeks. When I click into it, it says the picture was taken on April 6. Is that accurate? I had no idea the core would have already been visible a whole month ago. I'll have to look for it from Congress Street instead of the Devonshire side.
 
wtf, i can't spot the core from that distance and angle

nor will i evaar......
 
BosDevelop said:
If you add up the total number of rooms between the Parker House, Nine Zero and Hilton (the other two you admit are not, currently, full service hotels) it's not a ton of total rooms given the location in or near the center of the city.
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What about the Bostonian and the Langham?
 
DZH22 said:
Great picture Kent. You have been the MVP in that department over the last few weeks. When I click into it, it says the picture was taken on April 6. Is that accurate? I had no idea the core would have already been visible a whole month ago. I'll have to look for it from Congress Street instead of the Devonshire side.
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Thanks. The picture is taken on May 6th. My camera, for some reason, has its date set one month late ever since I took a trip to Asia. Been too lazy to fix it but I can confirm it was taken on May 6th.
 
dirtywater said:
What about the Bostonian and the Langham?
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I mentioned the Langham in my original post:



Originally Posted by BosDevelop View Post
That's good news. Surprisingly few full service hotels in the immediate area besides the Langham.
 
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