Seaport Neighborhood - Infill and Discussion

stick n move said:
Dont forget too they also had already built it once like 5 years ago and now ripped it out and redid it to make it match the rest of the plaza going in between the amazon buildings, so that makes it even more expensive.

This boardwalk iteration does look much better though and now it will be continuous through all of seaport sq, so its definitely worth it.
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'they' are 2 different entities though.
Skanska had bought the 2 sites of 101 and 121 from BGI and initially constructed the plaza.
WS then bought all of the remaining sites of Seaport Square, changed the vision to include the pedestrian Harbor Way and are now reconstructing this portion to match the rest of it (which will go all the way to the Summer St steps).
 
That's great news, and the 28% affordable number is really positive. Does anyone know what the average is across Boston new construction, especially neighborhood-by-neighborhood? Would really love to see even more residential units come on line in Seaport, but we're running out of lots pretty quickly.
 
Life is a circle. I worked in the seaport in 2004(ish), and had an office in World Trade Center West. I remember being able to see the filming of a rooftop scene or two from The Departed from my office window because there was nothing but parking lots in between. This fall, I started a new job in the area, and it's completely unrecognizable. It's great to see it become a neighborhood where I don't feel like I'm the only person walking through it, but it also feels a bit like a high-end mall. Also, RIP hanging out at Jimbo's with all of the CA/T workers.
 
fatnoah said:
Life is a circle. I worked in the seaport in 2004(ish), and had an office in World Trade Center West. I remember being able to see the filming of a rooftop scene or two from The Departed from my office window because there was nothing but parking lots in between. This fall, I started a new job in the area, and it's completely unrecognizable. It's great to see it become a neighborhood where I don't feel like I'm the only person walking through it, but it also feels a bit like a high-end mall. Also, RIP hanging out at Jimbo's with all of the CA/T workers.
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In the late '80s or early '90s, there was a club amongst all the warehouses near Northern Avenue. It wasn't the Channel. It was dance club with an actual "catwalk" metal structure that you could walk over the dance floor. I remember parking near some crazy desolate warehouse one Friday evening and thinking this was the scariest place, and it was like being in a movie where you see shady transactions on some fog-covered docks. :) Anyway, the Seaport has come a LONG way. It's unrecognizable from those warehouses, parking lots, and industrial zones.
 
In a bit of a throwback, I did see a delivery truck back up to a loading dock on Congress Street today at 8am, near Lucky's. It totally blocked the outbound lanes and part of the inbound lanes for several minutes while goods were unloaded. It was a bit of a reminder of how things used to be in the area.
 
And even better, the city announced final design for Congress street redevelopment a few weeks ago and after an attendee asked whether that specific delivery method would still be allowed, BPDA essentially threw up their hands and said, "eh, what can we do?". So, in a year or so those trucks will be blocking fresh new bike lanes as well!
 
RandomWalk said:
I think that was Poly Esta’s.
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Oh wow, this just made me double-take. I was too young to see this place's name in person, but I heard it on radio promos all the time (probably BCN or maybe Hot 106) and just assumed it was "Polyester's" pronounced like a typical local.
 
I was also too young to get in the door, but I remember it from my time attending Macworld Boston every August.
 
By the time Poly Esta's opened, my club days were largely behind me, aside from an occasional evening at Jake Ivory's. But I always loved the name, and felt somewhat tempted to check it out.
 
Welp a quick google search 1) shows that the correct spelling is with two Ls -- Polly Esta's -- and 2) there's a handful of images on a Facebook page here https://www.facebook.com/entertainmenttonite/photos

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Hope that jars some memories loose!
 
kz1000ps said:
Welp a quick google search 1) shows that the correct spelling is with two Ls -- Polly Esta's -- and 2) there's a handful of images on a Facebook page here https://www.facebook.com/entertainmenttonite/photos

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Hope that jars some memories loose!
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That looks like it could be a 1-story warehouse. The address of the company says Northern Avenue, and then it seems to have moved over near the Garden to Friend Street. The grainy images look like the interior I remember with the metal catwalk. The image above looks like it has a loading dock type of entrance, and that's what I remember. I just remember there were a bunch of 1-story warehouses that I think ran perpendicular between Northern Avenue and Summer Street. The streets were actually cobblestone. It was straight out of an Irish Mob movie located by the fishing docks. LOL I think it was basically the area I'm highlighting in the image below. This was before the World Trade Center East & West, plus the Seaport Hotel.

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RandomWalk said:
I remember it being very close to the old Slade Gorton warehouse and almost across the street from what was last Whiskey Priest.
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That tracks well with the image above. In my red box, it's almost exactly aligned with the Whiskey Priest.
 
RandomWalk said:
I didn’t think the 90s would look so dated, but wow…
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For the past couple years I have noticed a plethora of college aged girls wearing jeans straight out of 1991. It's not a good look either, so not sure why those are back in style. As for the pictures you're commenting on, I think the quality of the pictures themselves makes them look much more dated than the actual subject matter.
 
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