Residential Project | 45 West Third | South Boston

Re: 45 West Third / South Boston

BeeLine said:
Looks like they are getting ready for site prep/demolition.
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Yes. Last week they got their final sign-offs to start construction.
 
Any plan to buy-out the KO Pies building? Looks pretty out of place in those renders.
 
Long story short, owner of KO was holding out for more $$. Couldn't reach an agreement.
 
^^^^^^^^

Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered!
 
What really makes it out of place is the fact that it's closed 50% of the time. I love their product, and local biz blah blah blah, but a closed business is not adding much to the neighborhood.

KO focuses their energies on their East Boston location which makes the entire debate (condos pushing out local business) frustrating. KO is complaining that construction will disrupt their business (again, usually closed), when in the end they are holding out for more cash.

I'd much prefer an active ground floor, but agree that the contrast is nice.
 
Agree, KO is never open and it has always irritated the hell out of me. They are as much of a neighborhood restaurant as bees knees on Farnsworth is a grocery store for fort point. I'd be happy to see both replaced by businesses that are invested in the neighborhood....and that are actually open after work and on weekends!
 
The aerial render has a massing model for the replacement of KO Pies. The blank walls look like they're assuming for neighbor that matches their cornice line.
 
A good candidate for higher density??

Seems like they aimed too low.
 
odurandina said:
A good candidate for higher density??

Seems like they aimed too low.
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Odurandina -- 4 floors & courtyard -- its the Paris Model again on the fringe of the South Boston "Traditional neighborhood" and the new "South Boston Seaport / Innovation / GE Keiretsu District -- motto "we can be seen from Mars"
 
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