Waltham Infill and Small Developments

Major infrastructure problem in Waltham. On Tuesday the state inspected the bridge (Culvert) carrying Beaver Street over Beaver Brook near the train tracks. They immediately ordered a 3-Ton weight restriction between Waverley Oaks Road & Clematis Avenue and banned all trucks. The state wants the city to replace the structure immediately and the city wants the state to build a temporary bridge.
 
matredsoxfan said:
Major infrastructure problem in Waltham. On Tuesday the state inspected the bridge (Culvert) carrying Beaver Street over Beaver Brook near the train tracks. They immediately ordered a 3-Ton weight restriction between Waverley Oaks Road & Clematis Avenue and banned all trucks. The state wants the city to replace the structure immediately and the city wants the state to build a temporary bridge.
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Any chance they could take into account that this will be a crossing of the proposed Mass Central Rail Trail? I'd hate to see this structure rebuilt, and then have to be completely reworked in a couple years again (although I'd love to see the Trail built). Could they even build a small dead end portion of the trail, maybe leading to the parking lot of the adjacent office park, so that this section doesn't need to be built twice?
 
bigeman312 said:
Any chance they could take into account that this will be a crossing of the proposed Mass Central Rail Trail? I'd hate to see this structure rebuilt, and then have to be completely reworked in a couple years again (although I'd love to see the Trail built). Could they even build a small dead end portion of the trail, maybe leading to the parking lot of the adjacent office park, so that this section doesn't need to be built twice?
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The planned trail will end at Linden Street railroad bridge. It will never make it to this section of Beaver Street at least not in the next few years.
 
matredsoxfan said:
The planned trail will end at Linden Street railroad bridge. It will never make it to this section of Beaver Street at least not in the next few years.
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Not true. The Belmont section of this trail was passed, after years of meetings, this summer. That section of the trail is seeking funding and has been designed. They won't leave out this small section of relatively easy to build trail if the Belmont Community Path gets off the ground.
 
bigeman312 said:
Not true. The Belmont section of this trail was passed, after years of meetings, this summer. That section of the trail is seeking funding and has been designed. They won't leave out this small section of relatively easy to build trail if the Belmont Community Path gets off the ground.
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Nope. Can't happen. The Central Mass tacks--still connected to the Fitchburg Line--were refurbished for a few hundred feet back of the switch a couple weekends ago during one of the construction shutdowns into a new maintenance-of-way turnout. All the other such sidings west to Littleton were eaten by the double-track project and the spur right at Waltham Ctr. station was taken out for the downtown redevelopment. So they need this one as the only available staging area close to 128 for any routine track work. Turnout will hold a couple cars, and the grassy open space near the grade crossing is where they can stage materials (rail, ties, rock ballast, etc.) whenever they need to do work out there. That'll eat up all available space.


So, plan on a permanent trail break between Linden and Beaver onto Route 60. Which is only set back about 150 ft. from the tracks, so sidewalk improvements will help for getting trail users to the 554 bus stop on Beaver. Resuming the trail from Beaver towards Waverley after the small detour also has issues because of the private truck company driveway on the other side of the Beaver St. crossing. Any trail resumption from there to Waverley would have to directly abut the driveway and that company's building because of the telephone poles on the ROW. Company's not keen on that, and Waltham has low motivation to push the issue. So if Belmont successfully manages to get its rail-with-trail extension to Waverley Sq., look for some on-street solution + signage to bridge the gap. It's not that there'll never be a contiguous trail to Beaver St...it's that it's very low priority for Waltham to pay off private biz when they've got much bigger fish to fry elsewhere.
 
F-Line to Dudley said:
Nope. Can't happen. The Central Mass tacks--still connected to the Fitchburg Line--were refurbished for a few hundred feet back of the switch a couple weekends ago during one of the construction shutdowns into a new maintenance-of-way turnout. All the other such sidings west to Littleton were eaten by the double-track project and the spur right at Waltham Ctr. station was taken out for the downtown redevelopment. So they need this one as the only available staging area close to 128 for any routine track work. Turnout will hold a couple cars, and the grassy open space near the grade crossing is where they can stage materials (rail, ties, rock ballast, etc.) whenever they need to do work out there.


That'll create a permanent trail break between Linden and Beaver onto Route 60. Going further towards Waverley after the small detour around the block also has issues because of the private truck company driveway on the other side of the Beaver St. crossing. Any trail resumption from there to Waverley would have to directly abut the driveway and that company's building because of the telephone poles on the ROW. Company is not keen on that, and Waltham has low motivation to push the issue. So if Belmont successfully manages to get its rail-with-trail extension to Waverley Sq., look for some on-street solution + signage to bridge the gap. It's not that there'll never be a contiguous trail to Beaver St...it's that it's very low motivation for Waltham while they've got much bigger fish to fry.
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I see. Thanks for the info.
 
Beaver Street Bridge Update: The state meet with the city today and will restore the roadway to loads over 3-Tons but there is a catch... The road is going to be closed to one direction of traffic leaving a one lane bridge and all traffic will need to go down the middle of the bridge as the sides are completely deteriorated. The state wants the city to replace the bridge with a pre-cast concrete structure and use design-build contracting to get the project into construction as fast as possible. Until then the state will inspect the bridge every week to monitor the deterioration.
 
Major work being done on Third St near the Westin - three separate buildings torn down, nothing posted on the fences.
 
Beaver Street Bridge Update: Beaver Street between Waverley Oaks Road & Clematis Avenue is now closed to ALL eastbound traffic. Eastbound traffic will be detoured to Waverley Oaks Road to Trapelo to Lexington to Sycamore to Warren Street or Waverley Oaks to Linden to Main Street to Warren Street. The 3-Ton Weight restriction is now suspended and all trucks & cars can use the bridge but only from the Westbound direction. The bridge is down to one lane down the middle funneling traffic away from the crumbling edges of the culvert. The city has put out the design contract for bid with a bid opening date of October 14th.
 
HoodRiver said:
I think what your seeing is related the the 10 City Point development: http://209.200.98.21/site/properties/showproperty.aspx?sid=18&pid=127 When compeleted it will be Wolverine's headquarters and also include dining options Posto (Pizza) and Bone Fish Grill; perhaps more?
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That's not the one I'm talking about, that is being built at the corner of Third Ave and Totten Pond. There's also a bunch of demo at the intersection of Third Ave and Fourth Ave which is new with no details.
 
AdamBC said:
That's not the one I'm talking about, that is being built at the corner of Third Ave and Totten Pond. There's also a bunch of demo at the intersection of Third Ave and Fourth Ave which is new with no details.
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That is also City Point. That will be a new office building.
 
1265 Main Street Update: The following are confirmed stores with upcoming opening dates at the former Polaroid site....

Jake & Joes Sports Bar & Grill: Thursday Oct 2nd at 4:30PM for Dinner Only. Full opening October 9th.

Marshalls: Thursday Oct 9th at 8:30AM

Starbucks: November 2nd

Market Basket: Dec 2014

Flank, All American Beef Steak: Spring 2015

Not Your Average Joes: TBD

Verizon: TBD

Liquor Store: TBD
 
A lot of recent developments on Moody Street in Waltham. Sidewalk/Lighting/Tree work has resumed, Developers are trying to secure financing for a mixed use 4-Story Development at 200 Moody Street, Boston Beer Works will be moving into the former Watch City Brewery Spot and Moody's Delicatessen is expanding into the old Wing's Express spot next door.
 
matredsoxfan said:
A lot of recent developments on Moody Street in Waltham. Sidewalk/Lighting/Tree work has resumed, Developers are trying to secure financing for a mixed use 4-Story Development at 200 Moody Street, Boston Beer Works will be moving into the former Watch City Brewery Spot and Moody's Delicatessen is expanding into the old Wing's Express spot next door.
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Also add the following proposed development to the list, on the southern end of Moody: http://www.kirschplace.com/
 
Downtown Streetscape Project Update: Work has now resumed. The contractor has agreed to pay & make all repairs to the sidewalks. Crews have stripped the sidewalk infront of Brasco's and have removed all the brick from Newton Line to Derby St.
 
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