Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital | Navy Yard | Charlestown

why does North Station need more parking, though? I can't imagine many people drive to North Station then take a train out of there.
 
vanshnookenraggen said:
Garden.
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Or, more specifically, Garden + commuter parking on a weeknight. That's the tipping point that overwhelms everything.

Granted, that could be helped by actually building something with a large upper-level garage on the near 2 decades old Causeway St. parcel, but a new Spaulding lot will do nicely in a pinch until somebody gets their act together enough to take the parking vertical inside new construction.
 
I thought the current Spaulding was owned by Partners, who were going to sell the land for development, and help finance the cost of the new hospital.
 
A couple from the Tobin:

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What's Spaulding doing to their current building once they relocate to this new one?

(PLEASE tell me they're tearing it down and adding an Esplanade-Greenway link)
 
F-Line to Dudley said:
......so utmost priority on the northside is building a third drawbridge span to get a full 6 lead tracks in there and make use of all the platforms they've got.
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Unfortunately the new pedestrian overpass just constructed on the Charlestown side has a profile which can span only the tracks of the current two drawbridges. It does not have enough vertical clearance where the tracks for the third drawbridge would be.

So, if they build a third drawbridge they'll have to do some major disassembling and raising of the pedestrian overpass. In my opinion it's pretty damned stupid that they didn't design the pedestrian overpass with enough clearance for a third drawbridge.
 
dshoost88 said:
What's Spaulding doing to their current building once they relocate to this new one?

(PLEASE tell me they're tearing it down and adding an Esplanade-Greenway link)
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dshoot -- it will be torn down -- but what happens to the site is unclear -- Partners owns the building and the land as well as the near-by parking lot

The Spaulding site would be ideal for a high rise residential complex with some nice frontage on the River and a Harbor-walk behind the Intercontinental style of garden
 
I would not like to see any construction on the Spaulding site that would block connecting the two additional tracks to North Station.
 
Last one's a really fantastic shot... it has a wonderful vintage postcard quality
 
Pic of the year 2012: seagull butts.

but honestly this building is looking real nifty. Some art deco lines in a modernist fashion. I dig.
 
thanks the birds were intense that day,I threw a peice a bread in the harbor and they came from everywhere!
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^ LOL, that's intense. Hope they didn't drop any presents on you. :)
 
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