The Alcott (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End

Damn, that is one big-ass hole! And dude, I know some dudes can sleep about anywhere, but you are ridiculous!
 
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Edit: Apparently xF automatically parses and embeds FB posts...

Update from S&F Concrete:
https://www.facebook.com/SFConcrete/posts/10156450548951517

There are some cool 360 pix in the pit on the FB album: https://www.facebook.com/SFConcrete/posts/10156450548951517
S&F Concrete Contractors,Inc
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Equity Garden Garage
Boston MA
We are waiting for the final 10k square feet of slab on grade, the P5 parking level, to be turned over to us. We’ve placed 1/2 of the P4 level. And, have begun the P3 level. Things are progressing nicely.
This is a very large site with many logistical restrictions. Yet, our team continues to push us further along and make us look good while they doing it.
We are pressing harder and harder to have the parking levels completed ahead of schedule, is possible. The result of this effort would be the tower starting that much sooner. That is our goal.
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I assume that's a core starting to rise? Nice!

The enormity of this pit is really impressive.
 
Lrfox said:
I assume that's a core starting to rise? Nice!

The enormity of this pit is really impressive.
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A 800+ space parking garage needs a big pit.
Yes, the core, for the tower, has reached ground level.
 
Where does the massive amount of dirt go for projects like this? I know the wtc built battery park city, but where do regular developments send their dirt when they have large amounts?
 
stick n move said:
Where does the massive amount of dirt go for projects like this? I know the wtc built battery park city, but where do regular developments send their dirt when they have large amounts?
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I believe that if there's any industrial history on the site the dirt often has to be shipped to approved disposal sites, often out-of-state (think West Virginia). Not sure what the state of the dirt is in the West End, though.
 
i thought they had a treatment facility somewhere that treats soil and sends it back out to be remixed into sands & gravels for roads, and concrete.
 
KentXie said:
Is it really an economic advantage when it's one of the only major city without a direct rail line to the airport? Honestly, in all my travels, I can get to downtown in the following cities with airports much further away just as fast as it takes me to get to downtown in Boston via the Silver Line: Seattle, Chicago, San Francisco, Toronto, Vancouver, and Hong Kong. The economic advantage of having an airport so close to downtown is overblown. The traffic that Logan Airport causes by redirecting all travelers north, south, and west of the city through downtown Boston itself limits the growth of the city.

Move the airport 12 miles west and stick a dedicated airport rail line to it and you get the same benefits without the constraints. You also free up land the size of downtown, north end, west end, and back bay combined for development by repurposing the land that Logan currently sits on.
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This needs to move to CRAZY TRANSIT PITCHES

Have you been to the area of Greater Boston 12 miles West of Logan [anywhere from "downtown Newton" to Charles River Reservation in Waltham to The Lexington Battle Green -- depending on the angle of "West"
If you want your Crazy Pitch to have any realism -- you want to move the airport 33 miles North West to Devens -- that was looked at and Rejected as an option after the Army abandoned the Post
Much better option -- build an new Airport Tokyo-style on an artificial island founded in part on one of the outer harbor islands [if you pick Little Brewster you could repurpose Boston Light as the Airport Control Tower] https://www.google.com/maps/uv?hl=e...UKEwjs3bz8tefkAhXDMd8KHfEGBIcQoiowHnoECA4QBg#
 
whighlander said:
This needs to move to CRAZY TRANSIT PITCHES

Have you been to the area of Greater Boston 12 miles West of Logan [anywhere from "downtown Newton" to Charles River Reservation in Waltham to The Lexington Battle Green -- depending on the angle of "West"
If you want your Crazy Pitch to have any realism -- you want to move the airport 33 miles North West to Devens -- that was looked at and Rejected as an option after the Army abandoned the Post
Much better option -- build an new Airport Tokyo-style on an artificial island founded in part on one of the outer harbor islands [if you pick Little Brewster you could repurpose Boston Light as the Airport Control Tower] https://www.google.com/maps/uv?hl=en&pb=!1s0x89e368a6a1aaaaab:0xff9da29207d89eca!2m22!2m2!1i80!2i80!3m1!2i20!16m16!1b1!2m2!1m1!1e1!2m2!1m1!1e3!2m2!1m1!1e5!2m2!1m1!1e4!2m2!1m1!1e6!3m1!7e115!4shttps://lh5.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipOvSOO4Ddb48aD0Wg0hMho69gL1BldBt-ZCwftA=w266-h200-k-no!5sboston light - Google Search!15sCAQ&imagekey=!1e10!2sAF1QipOvSOO4Ddb48aD0Wg0hMho69gL1BldBt-ZCwftA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjs3bz8tefkAhXDMd8KHfEGBIcQoiowHnoECA4QBg#
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Boston does have a direct rail link (Blue line) to and from Logan.
 
stick n move said:
Where does the massive amount of dirt go for projects like this? I know the wtc built battery park city, but where do regular developments send their dirt when they have large amounts?
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See:
www.mass.gov

Soil Transport, Re-Use and Disposal

The excavation, transport and re-use (or disposal) of soil can be complicated, particularly if there is oil or hazardous material discovered in the dirt.
www.mass.gov www.mass.gov

This is not really a massive amount of soil. The Big Dig, on the other hand, filled in quarries, built up an island in Boston Harbor, restored Rumney Marsh, etc. The Big dig excavated 16 million cubic feet of soil.
 
Man I cant wait for this one, going to be crazy with yet another tower popping up over here, only this time its in the West end. The more dev we can get in there the better.
 
Based on the renders I have seen, none of this tub will be above ground beyond the tower, so it may indeed move very quickly once above grade.

As an aside, looking for an image online, I ran across the articles in the neighborhood papers about all the "outrage" from "West End residents" complaining about this project. With all our complaining about lack of height, project delays and VE'd designs, seeing what developers have to go through to get anything built, it is a miracle all this stuff is going vertical right now.

stick n move said:
Man I cant wait for this one, going to be crazy with yet another tower popping up over here, only this time its in the West end. The more dev we can get in there the better.
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