SAV-MOR Site Lab Building | 15 McGrath Highway | Somerville

[stick n move]

Another angle

https://bostonrealestatetimes.com/j...ing-for-somerville-life-sciences-development/

 

[Charlie_mta]

Another angle

https://bostonrealestatetimes.com/j...ing-for-somerville-life-sciences-development/

Looks good, but I wish they hadn't portrayed McGrath Hwy as an expressway.

 

[chrisbrat]

 

[dhawkins]

Not much going on at the site but I did happen to see the new Sav-mor location in Assembly Square (sorry-Assembly Row) the other night. Looks like they are carrying on their traditional witty/ trueism signboards!

 

[Tango]

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The Lechmere self-service car wash (blue roof) is now gone. I have to check to see if the old brick building with the tattered awnings (Boston Reptile) is still standing.

 

[RandomWalk]

The car wash is the adjacent Somerbridge hotel project.

 

[dhawkins]

The Lechmere self-service car wash (blue roof) is now gone. I have to check to see if the old brick building with the tattered awnings (Boston Reptile) is still standing.

Yes big improvement! that last bastion of American highway architecture/ car wash was getting pretty ratty. The "Boston Tropical Fish and Reptile" ripped awning still lives on!

 

[beck4537]

What's the over under on how long the nut factory building next door being sold?

 

[LexSEDotVille]

15+35 McGrath
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[LexSEDotVille]

One more.

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[Plen-T-Pak]

@BeeLine or @Arlington can you merge with this thread?

SAV-MOR Site Lab Building | 15 McGrath Highway | Somerville

I'm not sure there's much that can realistically be done to enclose McGrath there. The shopping plaza is backed up against the McGrath bridge spanning a huge rail junction. I don't know if the demand for that real estate would justify the huge cost of decking. It's similar to ABP over the...

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Are there other active mods?

 

[Arlington]

@Plen-T-Pak thanks for the request! Done.

 

[LexSEDotVille]

From the SCP bridge - 7/6:

 

[Dr. Rosen Rosen]

Stuck??

 

[Charlie_mta]

Stuck??

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That first photo reminds me of when I was 4-wheel ATV'ing 80 miles north of Nome Alaska in the grassy tundra, out in the middle of nowhere. I hit a big mud hole and got stuck, and sank a couple of feet. Fortunately we winched it out of there.

 

[Dr. Rosen Rosen]

I’m glad you found your way out!

 

[RandomWalk]

The hydro-mill rig was in pieces today. I expect they have finished the slurry wall work.

 

[Ruairi]

here's a pet peeve.
I cant un see it.
There's advertising for the development on the site fencing and they're dubbing it 'The axis of something and something', maybe 'innovation' and 'community'.
Either way, is it just me or is that terrible English, especially for a science lab?

Maybe the intersection of two axes or something.

Hope I have it wrong.

 

[chrisbrat]

here's a pet peeve.
I cant un see it.
There's advertising for the development on the site fencing and they're dubbing it 'The axis of something and something', maybe 'innovation' and 'community'.
Either way, is it just me or is that terrible English, especially for a science lab?

Maybe the intersection of two axes or something.

Hope I have it wrong.

I don't think the use of "axis" is grammatically incorrect here (though I haven't read the sign), but "nexus" might be more appropriate in the context you're describing.

 

[NHMaples]

If something is on both the x axis and y axis, it can only be at their intersection.