South Station Tower | South Station Air Rights | Downtown

TheMagicMan said:
The South Station developer has not actually proposed what the actual use for the building is going to be.

Will it be Residential,Commercial or both?

Has an anchor tenant signed in this location?
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They already have announced that it is required in the filings with the city. The bottom of the tower will be offices and the thinner upper floors will be residential.
 
citylover94 said:
They already have announced that it is required in the filings with the city. The bottom of the tower will be offices and the thinner upper floors will be residential.
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Maybe the state should consider seizing this property for public use.

Or the city could offer the developer a massive tax deal and propose a 1000-1,200ft residential skyscraper to help our city with housing and affordability
problem.

Creating a downtown skyscraper full of workers helping service Boston without commuting in and out of the city would really bring diversity at all income levels and help the overall congestion issue this state faces.

How can we get a grocery store in the Seaport when the workers cannot even remotely afford to live in the proximity of Boston without commuting an hour or two?
 
How can we get a grocery store in the Seaport when the workers cannot even remotely afford to live in the proximity of Boston without commuting an hour or two?
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What? A good deal of the T system still covers areas I'd consider affordable, including the RL which serves the Seaport, as well as SL Chelsea and its transfers via the BL. It seems rather alarmist to say that service workers can't afford Boston. True, they can't afford the Seaport or Back Bay, but neither can I and I'm a white collar professional. So...
 
Yes, the State is going to seize the property/air rights it already owns and put out to bid. Also, it is already going to the FAA limit, there is no taller here.
 
bakgwailo said:
Yes, the State is going to seize the property/air rights it already owns and put out to bid. Also, it is already going to the FAA limit, there is no taller here.
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Maybe we can build down. Like 700 ft underground, 700 ft above ground. 700 ft + 700 ft =1,400 ft. That's right behind the Willis Tower.
 
Love to get a swanky apartment on the -14th floor, which opens right onto the NSRL platform.
 
MBTA Expects Construction on South Station Project to Kick Off This Fall

During a recent recording of The Big Dig Podcast, Peter Paravalos, Director of Transit-Oriented Development for the MBTA told BLDUP he expects construction on the first phase of the South Station project to kick off this fall. This first phase includes the expansion of the bus terminal by 106,000 square feet and the expansion of the existing parking garage by 895 spaces.
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:/
 
Hopefully since the piles are all there its like the Hub on Causeway office tower and by “start” they mean the first steel goes up day 1.
 
Amidst all the pearl-clutching and teeth-grinding I'd love to see USPS sell some or all of the property adjacent to South Station and flip the bird at the MBTA and the City. Even if the South Station site was build-ready and the adjacent lot required demo/clean up/excavation, it'd still likely welcome tenants before the Tabasco bottle's first piece of steel went up.
 
HarvardP said:
Amidst all the pearl-clutching and teeth-grinding I'd love to see USPS sell some or all of the property adjacent to South Station and flip the bird at the MBTA and the City. Even if the South Station site was build-ready and the adjacent lot required demo/clean up/excavation, it'd still likely welcome tenants before the Tabasco bottle's first piece of steel went up.
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That's unlikely - USPS is so reticent to sell because they want to stay there, not because they're holding out for something.

Can we also acknowledge that building on air rights is really, really complicated? Not just in the sense that "they already have the piles driven though!" but also in the sense that they need to build over one of the most prominent train stations in the US while it operates. The building is approved - most of this last year has been negotiations on construction management.
 
BeeLine said:
Not to rain on anyones parade, but the article states that the tower will be "the next phase" after the bus terminal/parking expansion.
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I think that may be a typo by Bldup. The MBTA board presentations I've seen in 2019 have all been pretty clear that the tower goes up with the bus terminal expansion.
 
Equilibria said:
I think that may be a typo by Bldup. The MBTA board presentations I've seen in 2019 have all been pretty clear that the tower goes up with the bus terminal expansion.
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I hope it is. Fingers crossed.
 
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