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king_vibe said:
I can't believe this is actually happening.
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According to the project's official email update (sent last week), the deep foundation work for the tower will begin in August. IIRC, that work will take several months (while the above ground bus station expansion is brought to full fruition in time for a late 2022 opening).
 
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BostonTrainGuy said:
Is the shortening of the platforms temporary? Looks like a long walk to the trains now and Amtrak certainly needs as much track length as possible for future consist growth.
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I checked out the project and will answer my own question. Yes, the platform length shown here is temporary but the final design will result in shorter platforms than before.
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vanshnookenraggen said:
Holy shit, welcome back!
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Ha! Thanks! It’s been a hot second. I’ve lived in San Diego for 5 years now. Much like Boston, the skyline is inhibited by its proximity to the airport, but it unlike Boston, there is no development spine in which you can fit skyscrapers since - between military airports and the civilian one - all the available area is in flight paths.

anyway, south station…. Holy shit.

happy to come back and see this community is flourishing!!
 
castevens said:
I can’t believe this is… ACTUALLY under construction. I posted this thread in 2006…
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Which puts this project in some remarkably unremarkable territory!

Winthrop Center (115 Fed): thread started in 2007; project completing in 2023--16-year gestation
Fenway Air Rights (One Kenmore): thread started in 2006; project completing in 2023--16-year gestation
The Alcott: thread started in 2010; project completing in 2021--11-year gestation
Millennium Tower/Burnham: thread started in 2006; project completed in 2016--10-year gestation
Kensington: thread started in 2006 [but project approved in 2003] project completed in 2013--either 7 or 10-year gestation depending how you count
Moxy Hotel: thread started in 2006, project completed in 2019--13-year gestation

In hindsight, proposing projects on the eve of the globe's greatest financial calamity since the Great Depression turned out to be less-than-advantageous--and yet they all got built, which I suppose is a testament to the Boston market's enduring resiliency and appeal.

Of course, there's still at least two exceptionally long-lasted, extremely prominent proposals out there: 11 Bromfield (now on it's THIRD try!!), in gestation since 2008... and of course *Legendary Maverick* Don Chiaforo's Pinnacle, in gestation since 2006.

RE: the latter, if it eventually got scuttled in, oh, 2030, if it was discovered that sea level rise in Boston Harbor had already accelerated to, say, 1-inch per year or greater, it would be a cosmic joke too surreal to be believed... (not that anyone would be laughing, given how grim the future would be looking for the Shawmut penninsula)
 
DBM said:
Which puts this project in some remarkably unremarkable territory!

Winthrop Center (115 Fed): thread started in 2007; project completing in 2023--16-year gestation
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Worth noting that that's the second thread for 115 Federal. I remember when it started - it was considered a long-coming reboot at the time.

Same as this thread - this thread seems to start with the current three-building proposal, as opposed to the prior pinnacle-style tower.
 
The only reason all these threads started in 2006 is because the site migrated from "skyscraperguy" back in 2006. Most of the 2006 threads signify proposals that are even older than that. I remember the "new tallest" at South Station proposed back in the late 1990's, which would have been a spire technicality. However, I have found proposals back from the 1980's here too. I'm pretty sure the futility pre-dates me as a human being!
 
I got to take a train out of south Station yesterday and I know people were worried about filling in the ends of the tracks but it actually feels really great when you are there. I remember feeling super cramped on the area between the station and the tracks before, especially when people would wait there for their train, but now it feels like a plaza you can traverse instead of a hallway you walk down. I know it's not the final layout but the rework of the ends of the tracks may make this section of the complex much more pedestrian friendly.
 
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