The Hub on Causeway (née TD Garden Towers) | 80 Causeway Street | West End

The webcam overhead shot had been stuck without an update for the past few days. It just came back online this morning... Well guess what! They turned the camera oh-so-slightly so we can no longer adequately follow the Bulfinch construction with this webcam! 😦

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“A Sports Bar With Topgolf Suites Will Open by TD Garden”
“Banners Kitchen & Tap, located at the Hub on Causeway development, will also offer 60 beers on draft and a downright gigantic television”

https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEC_Hl1LKuo_W9-mJ89mxVsgqGQgEKhAIACoHCAowu6iCCzCeiP8CMIaw8wU?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en
 
That looks awesome. Not a place I'd frequent, but awesome nonetheless. Really like the faux-Old Garden façade.
 
choo said:
Time to get real excited. Movement on the Old Garden site. 2 towers- 430ft and 440ft. Multilevel target. Underground supermarket.

They say shovels this year, and I am actually encouraged because they explicitly mention Target, which I think shows that there is a lot of ducks in a row behind the scenes. Once this tops off, time to start on gov't center garage.
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This is the opening entry (2013) of the post, many of the details changed (Target and Stop & Shop) but it is very close to the project that is being completed now.
 
Three sites that need to be included in the North Station development area:
  1. Mass Gen Parking lot next to the tracks
  2. the fat bloated, stump of the Tip Oneal Federal building
  3. the old Spaulding rehab hospital
That group of properties could sprout a tower of magnificent scale -- probably after the railroad draw bridge is rebuilt
 
whighlander said:
Three sites that need to be included in the North Station development area:
  1. Mass Gen Parking lot next to the tracks
  2. the fat bloated, stump of the Tip Oneal Federal building
  3. the old Spaulding rehab hospital
That group of properties could sprout a tower of magnificent scale -- probably after the railroad draw bridge is rebuilt
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Any idea when that will be finished?
 
re; Causeway St fatty: For the width, it'll need 30 more floors, go ~925' etc.
re; 50 Sudbury St: yeah, that looks good!
 
Nope, all the grownups decided this is what they wanted and needed.
 
type001 said:
Nope, all the grownups decided this is what they wanted and needed.
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We really needed a larger residential component, particularly right on top of the city's 2nd busiest train station. They never should have sacrificed all those extra units. (unless I missed something and the housing crisis is behind us?)
 
DZH22 said:
We really needed a larger residential component, particularly right on top of the city's 2nd busiest train station. They never should have sacrificed all those extra units. (unless I missed something and the housing crisis is behind us?)
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Agree with you, but he is crying over the office component being too fat for his liking despite this is what the owners and signature tenant paying all the money wanted.
 
Yes, he's right. As as much as i want to moan about another fat box in Boston, the lab building was the perfect match for the market demand (grownups). The complexity of lab space, probably adds far less desirability for mixed use residential or hotel component up top (such as Hines is attempting with SST). But, we know the Hub's Residential component is a compromise between grownups and a lunatic fringe of North End & West End flat earthers. It probably could have reached toward 1.5 to 1.75x the number of residential units, and built ~680-780' vs what they got (recall Chiofaro originally wanted to do a 780' resident + ~600' mixed use right up the street, so we already know the economics support that scale of construction).
As unfounded (childish vs grownup) my complaints of the office tower are, i'd be remiss to complain about it if the 659'/201m skyscraper had gone up next door. We sure (do) cross paths with a good number of grownups in Boston's development and design process. Unfortunately, only Bill Linehan, and a few others ever had the first clue for how to tell the nimby's to go home and spend more time with loved ones.
The effects of Bill Linehan's friendly voice to development (now absent) is being felt in the adjacent neighborhoods to Downtown. We now have a City Council very unfriendly to development.
 
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