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I asked about what other projects in Boston have been put on hold before, but is South Station Tower the longest development in the city to be built?

I'm really impressed and admire that this skyscraper took almost 35 years to become a reality IIRC.
 
Lightning43 said:
I asked about what other projects in Boston have been put on hold before, but is South Station Tower the longest development in the city to be built?

I'm really impressed and admire that this skyscraper took almost 35 years to become a reality IIRC.
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To be fair on this you have to consider the various proposals as separate developments. They are all on the same general site (even if the footprints are different), but each of the proposals has been very different. It is not that uncommon for a challenging piece of real estate to have multiple failed proposals put forward before one sticks. We have several locations where none have landed yet (Turnpike and Big Dig related parcels, for example).
 
JeffDowntown said:
To be fair on this you have to consider the various proposals as separate developments. They are all on the same general site (even if the footprints are different), but each of the proposals has been very different. It is not that uncommon for a challenging piece of real estate to have multiple failed proposals put forward before one sticks. We have several locations where none have landed yet (Turnpike and Big Dig related parcels, for example).
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The longest tower to be completed, in my book was the newer John Hancock Tower. The 60-story buiding's glass window panels just kept on popping out and hitting the ground. *It's a wonder that no one was hurt. They had to put
JeffDowntown said:
To be fair on this you have to consider the various proposals as separate developments. They are all on the same general site (even if the footprints are different), but each of the proposals has been very different. It is not that uncommon for a challenging piece of real estate to have multiple failed proposals put forward before one sticks. We have several locations where none have landed yet (Turnpike and Big Dig related parcels, for example).
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To me, the building that took the longest to build & correct structurally was the John Hancock Tower in Boston. The glass window panels kept on popping out & hitting the ground until a damper was put in near the top of the buiding near the top floor to stop the swaying. :)
 
5/16 from the Harvard Bridge.
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Winthrop is is officially listed at 691', with MT and SST just a few feet shorter making them essentially triplets height wise. Does this mean the FAA height limit for Downtown is 700 feet? Whats the height limit for Back Bay?
 
KriterionBOS said:
Winthrop is is officially listed at 691', with MT and SST just a few feet shorter making them essentially triplets height wise. Does this mean the FAA height limit for Downtown is 700 feet? Whats the height limit for Back Bay?
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Totally depends on where you are in the geography around downtown and Back Bay -- complex airspace restriction overlay because Logan is so close (including flight path carve outs just south and north of downtown due to runway alignments). (Zoom in for details).


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In addition to above about the FAA restrictions, large areas of downtown are subject to height limits from shadow restrictions on the common/garden. Plan downtown did some good graphics on the functional height limits of most of the core of downtown.
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When the story is written about how Boston failed to capitalize on the once-in-lifetime biotech boom, there will be chapter about how there is a hard, artificial cap on density exactly at the nexus of the region’s transit system.
 
Jeremi said:
When the story is written about how Boston failed to capitalize on the once-in-lifetime biotech boom, there will be chapter about how there is a hard, artificial cap on density exactly at the nexus of the region’s transit system.
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?? we have a ton of empty lab space as is.. and labs suck downtown.. and can't be tall...
 
stefal said:
?? we have a ton of empty lab space as is.. and labs suck downtown.. and can't be tall...
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I mean capitalizing on the lab boom by building homes and actually allowing those workers to live in the city, thereby strengthening our civic institutions and tax base.
 
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