West Cambridge / Alewife Area Infill & Small Developments

[BeeLine]

IMG_8463 by Bos Beeline, on Flickr
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[F-Line to Dudley]

It wouldn't be Alewife if cars weren't more prominently front-and-center than the buildings in the render.

 

[BeeLine]

95 Fawcett
IMG_8520 by Bos Beeline, on Flickr
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[BeeLine]

Discovery Park
IMG_8420 by Bos Beeline, on Flickr
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IMG_8421 by Bos Beeline, on Flickr
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IMG_8445 by Bos Beeline, on Flickr
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[BeeLine]

IMG_8466 by Bos Beeline, on Flickr
IMG_8469 by Bos Beeline, on Flickr
IMG_8473 by Bos Beeline, on Flickr
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IMG_8458 by Bos Beeline, on Flickr
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[BeeLine]

55 Wheeler St. (?)
IMG_8519 by Bos Beeline, on Flickr
IMG_8518 by Bos Beeline, on Flickr
IMG_8516 by Bos Beeline, on Flickr
IMG_8515 by Bos Beeline, on Flickr

 

[F-Line to Dudley]

IMG_8518 by Bos Beeline, on Flickr

7 differing panels of cladding enter a room. Only 4 come out. . .

 

[vanshnookenraggen]

The density is good, and the design isn't that bad, but the urbanism isn't there. Only in the suburbs can you live right next to retail and transit and still have a 20 min walk.

 

[Charlie_mta]

7 differing panels of cladding enter a room. Only 4 come out. . .

Home Depot had a sale on remnants.

 

[Equilibria]

Per Cambridge Day, the City is considering buying land in Alewife for a fire station, elementary school, community center, etc.

https://www.cambridgeday.com/2021/06/13/attend-meetings-on-buying-land-around-alewife-keeping-options-for-remote-speaking-and-more/

Not sure why they aren't asking developers to chip into this. It worked for Somerville...

 

[Brad Plaid]

The Finch. OK design but the facade really looks like plastic laminate/Formica. And Burger King for a next door neighbor.

 

[F-Line to Dudley]

Note to self: start a specialty re-cladding business by 2025. Once we fully realize the depravity the last 10 years of clad fads have wreaked upon architecture, I'll be rich for life.

 

[RandomWalk]

The brise soleil design appears to be inspired by the grid fins on a Falcon 9 rocket.

 

[jklo]

That pea green... yikes.

 

[Brad Plaid]

75 Smith Place. Life science lab, demo underway. Plan doc http://cambridgema.iqm2.com/citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=2275&Inline=True

Randoms of the immediate ambiance

And nothing says home like major power grid infrastructure for a neighbor.

 

[Charlie_mta]

And nothing says home like major power grid infrastructure for a neighbor.
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I remember when the Fresh Pond Drive-in Movie theater occupied this site back in the 1950s. I could watch free movies on it from where I lived in Jefferson Park (off of Rindge Ave). Couldn't hear the sound, though.

 

[Brad Plaid]

 

[Brad Plaid]

Charlie, I'm curious about where the screen was standing, what is there today? Trader Joe's approximately? Thanks.

 

[Charlie_mta]

The electrical substation property fits exactly the footprint of the old drive-in theater. So the screen was just north of Trader Joes, and was located where there is currently a building on the south tip of the electrical substation.

 

[Arlington]

And nothing says home like major power grid infrastructure for a neighbor.
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Speaking of which, there is considerable construction going on at the electrical station; lots of new footings and heavy equipment