South Boston Innovation Campus | 2 Harbor Street | Seaport

[Smuttynose]

2-26-2023 Plenty of progress --

 

[Smuttynose]

4-2-23

 

[DZH22]

4/16 From Piers Park

IMG_0771 by David Z, on Flickr

IMG_0777 by David Z, on Flickr

 

[Smuttynose]

This is from the corner at Hyatt Place and the Rotary (5/14) --

 

[Smuttynose]

5-19-2023 --

 

[dhawkins]

5-29-23
Building exterior ongoing. Interesting facade. The construction hoist is more interesting. Is it strictly for the concrete forms?

 

[mosebag]

 

[stick n move]

This facade looks pretty good so far.

 

[RamonFalcon]

My brain can't seem to handle how unresolved this corner feels...in all directions

 

[AndreyD]

 

[BeeLine]

As of 8/6/23

 

[North Street]

My brain can't seem to handle how unresolved this corner feels...in all directions
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Maybe it was designed using A.I. ?

 

[BeeLine]

As of 11/16/23

 

[DZH22]

12/10

IMG_0536 by David Z, on Flickr

IMG_0538 by David Z, on Flickr

 

[shmessy]

12/10

IMG_0536 by David Z, on Flickr

IMG_0538 by David Z, on Flickr

I truly enjoy when you come into the city to take pictures!

 

[DZH22]

I truly enjoy when you come into the city to take pictures!

Thanks, not as much as I enjoy it! I'm glad my enthusiasm for the subject matter comes through in the pics.

 

[BeeLine]

As of 12/24/23

 

[JS38]

This looks horrible from the water/Eastie/Logan ramps etc. a huge brown mass, we really messed up the Seaport...

 

[stick n move]

So apparently another building is proposed at the same address thats going to be connected to this building by a gerbil tube.

Developer proposes ten-story life-sciences building at the edge of the Seaport to go with the ten-story life-sciences building it's already building there​

“Beacon Capital Partners last week filed plans with the BPDA for a ten-story life-sciences lab building on Northern Avenue at Channel Street, next to the similar building it's already constructing there as part of its 4.4-acre South Boston Innovation Campus, where the Seaport turns into the Raymond Flynn Marine Park.

In a formal "notice of of project change," the downtown firm says the second, 321,000-square-foot building will help better connect the Flynn Marine Park to the burgeoning Seaport, in part through improved sidewalks, and will even help the BPDA keep up the maritime identity of the former Marine Industrial Park, if not through the drug development going on inside then through the rents and fees paid to the BPDA subsidiary that is supposed to keep the Flynn land Boston's last main bastion of marine industries.

Its ground rent, associated fees and assessments will provide funding for [the subsidiary] as it improves the infrastructure of the RLFMP. Furthermore, the programming for the Overall Project and its layout of public spaces aligns with the vision in the RLFMP Final Master Plan Update to shift water dependent uses to and towards the waterfront, and to shift mixed and more commercial uses farther away from the water.

The plans call for shifting around the 325 total parking spaces the BPDA originally approved for the project, which included a 70-space lot where the new building would go, with the remaining 255 spaces in a garage under the building already under construction. Instead, Beacon Capital Partners is proposing to put a 200-space garage under the building already under construction, with a second 125-space garage under the proposed building.

The new building would have a ground-floor cafe and some retail space, the plans say…”

https://www.universalhub.com/2024/developer-proposes-ten-story-life-sciences

https://www.bostonplans.org/projects/development-projects/south-boston-innovation-campus

 

[NHMaples]

I'm not a big fan of gerbil tubes. They diminish the natural negative space between buildings, and they tend to make the individual structures appear wider than they otherwise would. Most importantly, they depopulate what could otherwise be a lively and bustling outdoor space between the buildings. Put those tubes underground. Make them mole tubes.