The Parker Boston (nee LaGrange Tower) | 47-55 LaGrange St. | Downtown

So this sounds like they don't have any real intentions to develop it at all. It's a strip club company buying a strip club. My initial excitement regarding the sale lasted only as long as it took to look up ecdysiast. Which actually is kind of cool, I guess. Usually news of this kind strikes a defeatist note for me, but at least this one came with an education beyond your average titty bar.
 
George_Apley said:
I moved the urban grit convo here. Carry on there!
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Can you please stop doing this? It completely kills discussion of the topic. It's great you can move things, but the conversation is definitely relevant to the current topic. It's not a general conversation about gentrification and anybody that's interested in it would never go there.
 
meddlepal said:
Can you please stop doing this? It completely kills discussion of the topic. It's great you can move things, but the conversation is definitely relevant to the current topic. It's not a general conversation about gentrification and anybody that's interested in it would never go there.
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For goodness sake, people can follow a link. I let the convo run until it veered well off-course. Sorry you disagree.
 
So... whereas Millennium has publicly announced that Winthrop Sq. Tower is converting entirely from 500 condos to 400 or so apartment units, these guys have taken the exact opposite tack, and have publicly announced what is previously 175 apartments or so (per my recollection) will now be 175 condos or so.

Presumably these revisions have everything to do with dramatic (projected) transformations in the foreign vs. domestic urban residential buyer market, and projecting supply vs. demand 2 years out relative to that...
 
If there was a single spot in Boston that exceplfies the "new Boston" this site has to qualify. The idea that luxury condos are being constructed half a block from a strip club and a homeless shelter, with an address on an alley, is quite something.
 
A lot of buildings in the city are at this hole in the ground stage right now, hopefully credit doesnt freeze up or covid roars back or it would be fairly ugly.
 
Cortes said:
If there was a single spot in Boston that exceplfies the "new Boston" this site has to qualify. The idea that luxury condos are being constructed half a block from a strip club and a homeless shelter, with an address on an alley, is quite something.
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Maybe it was remarkable in 1995... but in 2020 [COVID notwithstanding], it's just more of the same in a neighborhood utterly dominated by high-end/luxury residential. Starting at 151 Tremont, going all the way down the W Hotel condos at 100 Stuart, then going over to Washington St. and completing the rectangular grid at Millennium Place (580 Wash.), you've got the following luxury residential complexes:

151 Tremont, 165 Tremont, 170 Tremont, 62 Boylston, the Ritz Towers, 660 Washington, Kensington, 45 Stuart, W Hotel condos, MPlace

there's 3,000 luxury units right there--in less than .05 square miles. At most, this project represents a barely-noticeable, infinitesimally small augmentation to a massive luxury residential building spree that launched more than two decades ago.
 
This one is steadily moving along..pics from 12/28
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