Not to get too carried away, but I think with a core, you can really only do residential there, unless maybe you get some kind of engineering solution a la Leadenhall Building in London where the structural, utility, and conveyance "core" was built on the wide end of the triangle.^^ How much longer before a developer announces the '1 Friend Flatiron'? Would actually be a sick address/spot for a Facebook east-coast HQ.
(Side question/bet: will it be Millennium, HYM, Samuels, Boston Properties, or 'other'?)
Not to get too carried away, but I think with a core, you can really only do residential there, unless maybe you get some kind of engineering solution a la Leadenhall Building in London where the structural, utility, and conveyance "core" was built on the wide end of the triangle.
^^ How much longer before a developer announces the '1 Friend Flatiron'? Would actually be a sick address/spot for a Facebook east-coast HQ.
(Side question/bet: will it be Millennium, HYM, Samuels, Boston Properties, or 'other'?)
Are there two threads for this? Or am I confusing two buildings/ same site/project?
Yep aside from the office and res tower with their own threads theres the soon to be garage demo, the garage re-facade, garage ground floor retail, a 2nd res tower with no thread yet, plus the boutique office space across the street in the old overhang footprint, new bus stop, new courtyard, new retail... etc. All of these things fall into the main thread right now.
It seems odd to a casual observer (me) that the core is going up before the garage is razed.