The Bon | 1260 Boylston Street | Fenway

I lived in a ~450sq ft one-bedroom for 5 years, it was fine.

My biggest issues with the space were piss-poor design decisions by the developer, and not the size itself.
 
GW said:
They are part of the same process; the same forces are at work. The Seaport wasn't much of anything, in terms of residents, before recent development, so I don't think that's an apt comparison. My point was that the rest of the city is coming to resemble the Seaport demographically, "culturally" (such as it is), and in many cases architecturally. I'm not sure what cultural stuff you're referring to, but the yuppification you point to in JP and Cambridge is, to my eyes, pretty much all there is at the Seaport.
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Okay, it sounds like we're pretty much on the same page. The Seaport itself isn't making the city "boring" (there's no causality there) but it is representative of bigger picture forces that are making the city boring.
Suffolk 83 said:
Scape is changing this project in technical terms only. Is anybody naive enough to think once built it wont be packed with undergrads anyway? They're just appeasing the neighborhood but not actually doing anything different.
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What I've seen in the Fenway is that the cheaper a building is, the higher its concentration of undergrads. So if undergrads fill this building up then that must mean it's priced reasonably. But anyway, undergrads are people too.
 
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#goddamnedfreemarketcapitalism
"Hmm, this location looks quite convenient."
Students inevitably team up and find what they can afford.
#socialistBoston/ students be damned:
"we'll pass the zoning laws to stop you.
You can live on potatoes cooked in grease."
 
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jass said:
I lived in a ~450sq ft one-bedroom for 5 years, it was fine.

My biggest issues with the space were piss-poor design decisions by the developer, and not the size itself.
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So much is connected to layout. My house is about 1750 square feet. Kitchen, DR, LR, five bedrooms, 2 bath. It's for a family, but the space per person is 350 square feet and it works fine. It's actually a pretty spacious feeling home for the most part.
 
Personally, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space.
 
Revised plan submitted. 1300+ units in three buildings. 220 affordable units at The Ipswish (2 Charlesgate) site.

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Company that once wanted to build a single private dorm tower in the Fenway instead proposes more than 1,300 apartments across three buildings in the neighborhood

Scape, a British company that initially wanted to build a 533-bed private dorm building on Boylston Street, has filed new plans with the BPDA that now call for a Boylston Street building with 477 market-rate apartments - and for 445 apartments in a new Audubon Circle building and another 220...
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BeeLine said:
Revised plan submitted. 1300+ units in three buildings. 220 affordable units at The Ipswish (2 Charlesgate) site.

www.universalhub.com

Company that once wanted to build a single private dorm tower in the Fenway instead proposes more than 1,300 apartments across three buildings in the neighborhood

Scape, a British company that initially wanted to build a 533-bed private dorm building on Boylston Street, has filed new plans with the BPDA that now call for a Boylston Street building with 477 market-rate apartments - and for 445 apartments in a new Audubon Circle building and another 220...
www.universalhub.com www.universalhub.com
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The massive PDF Project Impact Report (349 pages, 169 mb) is here. Changes are largely as we've been discussing the last couple of days.

I'll pull the info on 2 Charlesgate West ("The Ipswich") and 819 Beacon St ("The Beacon") into their own threads.
 
joegenius said:
Has there been any demolition date set?
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To my knowledge, these haven't been board approved yet (can someone please confirm?). Until that and zoning board approval happen, there wouldn't be a demolition date identified.
 
I heard through the grapevine that they plan on reopening across the street in the recently vacated Tony C's.
 
Bergeron37 said:
I heard through the grapevine that they plan on reopening across the street in the recently vacated Tony C's.
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This is being discussed on the New Retail Thread - they'll be back in the new building.
 
Under Flynnino, the Fenway badly withered. Yet, if the proposed/approved mid-rises + highrises such as the Huntington Fenway Ctr & 1 Kenmore, etc--to go along with the nice infilling (all) get built--the transformation of Boston's most inscrutable, rank neighborhood would have been very difficult to believe 20~25 years ago.
 
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odurandina said:
Under Flynnino, the Fenway badly withered. Yet, if the proposed/approved mid-rises + highrises such as the Huntington Fenway Ctr & 1 Kenmore, etc--to go along with the nice infilling (all) get built--the transformation of Boston's most inscrutable neighborhood would have been very difficult to believe 20~25 years ago.
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Flynnino...I like that...patent it
 
This looks good. The big question is: When does development start on the other side of the street?! Former Rite Aid...Guitar Center/CVS...Post Office...Verb...? Plus the Red Sox parcels along Jersey St. and nearby.

Tons more to come.
 
Equilibria said:
with a stipulation that the developer would "try to avoid" leasing more than 25% of the units to undergraduates.

Because housing discrimination is just fine in the US if it's age-based. The residents of Fenway should be ashamed of themselves.
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As an attorney, I can't help but wonder what legal force "try to avoid" has. Sounds highly subjective. "We did try hard to avoid leasing more than 25% of the units to undergads but our efforts were not successful." "try to avoid" = worthless. Sounds like just silly neighborhood optics to me.
 
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