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

Re: Longfellow Place (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End

Is there a map available showing who owns what in the west end? Anyone willing to make one?
 
Re: Longfellow Place (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End


 
Re: Longfellow Place (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End

see that rather horrid bldg on the right?

:)
 
Re: Longfellow Place (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End

That came down quicker than I expected.
 
Re: Longfellow Place (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End

Much quicker than Govt Center Garage, probably because nothing needed to be preserved. The building isn't scheduled to open till late 2021 though
 
Re: Longfellow Place (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End

Timeline makes sense in my head... probably another few weeks of demo and rubble clearing. 2021 is a lot closer than it seems... we're at the halfway point for 2018 already.
 
Re: Longfellow Place (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End

Despite the short nimby spat 2.5 years ago, this project flew fairly-well-under the radar for many of the proletariat masses. When people happen upon the Bullfinch area and see a giant hole where the garage once stood, added to the tower cranes across the street, they're gonna gasp w/ a collective, "whoa...."

cup your hand up to your ear. see? you hear it.
 
Re: Longfellow Place (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End

I miss wrecking balls. Probably inefficient and dangerous, but still were fun to watch.
 
Re: Longfellow Place (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End

I miss wrecking balls. Probably inefficient and dangerous, but still were fun to watch.
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They tore down the old five or six story St. Vincent's hospital complex in Worcester using a wrecking ball about 9 years ago. They are indeed fun to watch but the seem really inefficient. You basically either swing the boom or drop the ball and while it certainly does damage it takes a long time.

I'm not sure what leads demo companies to pick one tool over another. Nine years ago we had demo excavators so I'm sure that was an option (and I remember seeing some on site doing small amounts of work).
 
Re: Longfellow Place (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End

I'm hoping for an implosion when they take down the Eastgate tower at MIT.
Haven't gotten to see one live before.

Fingers crossed.
 
Re: Longfellow Place (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End

SeamusMcFly said:
I'm hoping for an implosion when they take down the Eastgate tower at MIT.
Haven't gotten to see one live before.

Fingers crossed.
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When was the last big implosion in Boston? Traveler's tower?
 
Re: Longfellow Place (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End

^That and the Madison hotel are the only two I remember in the last 30 years or so
 
Re: Longfellow Place (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End

so....

from the camera, the rubble on the north building looks to be almost completely removed.

but the south garage remains.

anyone know how many spaces there were in total?
 
Re: Longfellow Place (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End

Czervik.Construction said:
I miss wrecking balls. Probably inefficient and dangerous, but still were fun to watch.
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All of the above perfectly encapsulated in the effort to demolish the old building at the corner of Franklin & Hawley when Millennium Tower was ramping up. I remember hearing (quizzing construction workers on-site) that the original wrecking ball was swung... and it bounced right off the sturdy 1900s masonry.

BONG!!

So they had to bring in a bigger wrecking ball.

Think about that: in our modern times, with all of our sophisticated computer-assisted projecting of physical forces/Newtonian equations, a subcontractor still underestimated what size wrecking ball was required.
 
Re: Longfellow Place (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End

from my memory, the destruction in the mid '70s was still in full swing....

oh, i see what i did there. :)

it was scary, astonishing in its extent, breathtaking and sad–all at the same time.

even as a kid you knew something of great value was being lost.

especially because we didn't have alucobond to make it all better again.
 
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