South Boston Infill and Small Developments

This project is starting to get very confusing to me. They seem to be digging up and putting in a drainage system on their own site and the Pappas hotel site next door. Anyone heard anything concerning a joint costruction or site prep deal?

14 W Broadway
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BeeLine said:
This project is starting to get very confusing to me. They seem to be digging up and putting in a drainage system on their own site and the Pappas hotel site next door. Anyone heard anything concerning a joint costruction or site prep deal?

14 W Broadway
https://flic.kr/p/EWoQcL
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Can't locate article, but both the hotel site & plans were purchased from Pappas by developer of Cornerstone site a few months back. So to answer your question, yes, it seems that joint contruction is underway... Although it is strange how little information is out there re hotel status.
 
^^ Thanks. I had not heard Pappas sold out. (which is a good thing in my mind because Pappas seems to like to sit on things.)
 
WOW!! $13,650,000 return. Nice FLIP Pappas.
 
Wow, I didn't realise there was so much ongoing development here! Some of these are definitely falling into uncanny valley for me - 22-24 Woodward and a few others looking like they're trying desperately to fit in. Whereas 99 D Street seems to be executing this well and inoffensively.

Then 43 L Street and 52 E Street coming in unapologetically modern, adding delightful contrast. Just wish this infatuation with parking parking parking wasn't ruining the way these buildings interface with the pedestrian realm. It's like people don't live in this neighbourhood - their cars do.

Somehow this works okay in the Mission District of San Francisco, but I think it may be ameliorated by much higher caliber of design and detail in the buildings overall, even the extremely modern ones.
 
BeeLine, I can't tell you how much I appreciate your Southie infill updates. They're comprehensive and highlight a rarely-seen part of town on this forum. Thank you.
 
DigitalSciGuy said:
Wow, I didn't realise there was so much ongoing development here! Some of these are definitely falling into uncanny valley for me - 22-24 Woodward and a few others looking like they're trying desperately to fit in. Whereas 99 D Street seems to be executing this well and inoffensively.

Then 43 L Street and 52 E Street coming in unapologetically modern, adding delightful contrast. Just wish this infatuation with parking parking parking wasn't ruining the way these buildings interface with the pedestrian realm. It's like people don't live in this neighbourhood - their cars do.

Somehow this works okay in the Mission District of San Francisco, but I think it may be ameliorated by much higher caliber of design and detail in the buildings overall, even the extremely modern ones.
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DigitalSciGuy -- get used to it -- people have cars and most don't want to have to put an old toilet into the street to have a place to park after a snow storm
 
whighlander said:
Scott -- the building isn't that great either -- the exterior looks like cinder blocks
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Hint:

No building uses a thing called cinder blocks. CMU or Concrete Masonry Units will do.

That material is likely Cement Fiber Board laid up in a running bond pattern based on the scale of the material.

I will agree that it is not attractive if in fact that is what you were implying with the cinder block comment.

cca
 
cca said:
Hint:

No building uses a thing called cinder blocks. CMU or Concrete Masonry Units will do.

That material is likely Cement Fiber Board laid up in a running bond pattern based on the scale of the material.

I will agree that it is not attractive if in fact that is what you were implying with the cinder block comment.

cca
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Uh. Cinder Blocks are a real building material?
 
Jouhou said:
Uh. Cinder Blocks are a real building material?
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Sure .. its just terminology. If you were to talk on to a job site and ask to see the cinder blocks you might get some funny looks. They are generally called Concrete Masonry Units or CMU.

In the past non-load bearing blocks used as sub straight for plaster was a mix of ash and sand molded into block shapes. This is literally a cinder block. They were very weak and could be broken and crumbled in your hand. This way of creating a non-load bearing wall is no longer used and thus cinderblocks left the job site.



cca
 
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