South Boston Infill and Small Developments

mdd said:
It's structural as in it's the end support for the balconies. I agree that this looks really, really weird.
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In the photo above, the Y column seems to terminate at the lowest balcony. It does not come down to ground level, or a footer of any sort. How does that work as an end support for the balconies above -- everything load bears down to the lowest balcony?
 
The bar is so low, when I looked at the vanilla box, I actually said "oh wow that's not horrible."
 
Famed Amrheins Restaurant Site Up for Sale; Key Half-Acre Parcel Could Bring Near $20M

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This will probably be big enough to be it own thread when it gets underway.
 
FINALLY! That building and parking lot are a waste of space, particularly so close to the T.
 
Fill in the parking lot but the original 1890 building should be saved.

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statler said:
Fill in the parking lot but the original 1890 building should be saved.
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Could not agree more. I hope they do a nice build and keep those facades. Will add a great deal of character to the building. The way that the Kenmore Square project should have kept those green brownstone facades....
 
The owner of Amrheins, which has held down the corner of West Broadway and A Street since 1890, has put the classy neighborhood joint, and its prized parking lot next door, up for sale. The half-acre site could fetch $20 million or more, real estate experts say, and the new owner almost certainly will replace the brick and wood buildings that house Amrheins with something along the lines of the mid-rise apartments that have transformed Broadway’s Lower End.
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Boston Globe - Aug 8, 2018

Experts say lots of things, but that would suck if true.
 
They put significant $$ into the restaurant about 18 months ago...but that would pale in comparison to a $20M sale.

I wonder what their basis in the building is? Must have a 1031 exchange in mind.
 
If only we had an agency that protected buildings of historical value
 
The problem is that we have such a high bar for what counts as "Historic" around here that 'an 1890 restaurant that some local politicos hung out in' isn't going to pass muster.
 
I mean we always talk about NIMBY's having such a profound effect (usually negative) in Boston, yet we can't ever seem to use it for good to advocate for preservation along with development? Is this already a lost cause? I don't think its so amazing that if we lost it the neighborhoods gone but the parking lot is fairly big I feel like this development can compromise by saving the facade at least with increasing the zoning height over the parking lot no?
 
Yea I dont even think a building should have to have some historical significance to be the only reason why it should be saved. Save them to keep the older buildings of the city still here where you can and then mix the old with the new and build the new building next to and above them. If you only had to save extremely important buildings that would mean what we can demo 85% of the city and throw up precast or blue glass in its place. Hell na, not with the ability to atlantic wharf-etize a site and all of the space still left in the city. Once theres no more space then this convo should be had.

Not when 50% of the west end isnt built on, whittier place on the edge of the west end has 2 parking lots, the “garage” in the center of the west end off blossom ct, the lot on n anderson st, the lots behind the garden, the lots behind the jail, the brick expanse at city hall, the pike gash, the lots around the steam towers off kneeland st, the garage against the greenway next to blackstone st, the harbor garage, the triangle lot next to the office tower at gc garage, the space behind the brooke courthouse, usps along fort point, the lot on arlington st, pike parcels, fenway, longwood, south end, huntington, copley......and on and on and on. Lets keep filling before demo unless its just a crapper that nobody would care about at all and clearly has no business being saved.

Kind of goes back to the proposed hancock tower on stuart st. No the building itd replace isnt that old, but it looks like it is and it looks nice. Hell it looks better than the proposed tower. In that situation it has no historical significance, but its just a nice masonry building.
 
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