Winter Garden | 100 Federal St. | Financial District

jass said:
Meet me at the Hancock observation deck tonight?
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Opportunity Cost, people.

Close down the Hancock observation deck and you get an entire floor of prime office space to rent out, plus you free up a crucial elevator that is no longer taken up by rando tourists.

Close down the "Exchange at 100 Federal" and you get... uh... fewer customers for your retail tenants? They're still going to close the space down on occasion and rent it out for private events. But day-to-day, it simply makes no sense to keep people out.
 
JumboBuc said:
Opportunity Cost, people.

Close down the Hancock observation deck and you get an entire floor of prime office space to rent out, plus you free up a crucial elevator that is no longer taken up by rando tourists.

Close down the "Exchange at 100 Federal" and you get... uh... fewer customers for your retail tenants? They're still going to close the space down on occasion and rent it out for private events. But day-to-day, it simply makes no sense to keep people out.
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Exactly. It's not exactly a groundbreaking concept either. Better examples than Prudential would be 1 Federal, 1 Financial, 75-101 Federal, International Place, and many others which have lobbies with retail that are open to the public. Why would 100 Federal be any different?
 
How do they rent the space out for weddings and events if they're building a Blue Bottle Coffee shop in the middle of it?

Walked in here today and it's a beautiful space and already well-utilized.
 
cjbski said:
How do they rent the space out for weddings and events if they're building a Blue Bottle Coffee shop in the middle of it?.
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Coffee shop might only be open during the week (or limited weekend hours) and events could be weekends only.
 
It's definitely open to the public and designed to be. Reminds me a bit of the atrium at International Place. With now Red Barn Coffee (really good coffee BTW!) and a rotating lunch stand are there. Blue Bottle Coffee is under construction.
 
cden4 said:
IWith now Red Barn Coffee (really good coffee BTW!)
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I love Red Barn. Their Faneuil Hall shop is temporarily closed while the building's HVAC is replaced, leaving me with very few places to get decent coffee in the area.
 
617 said:
Additionally, it looks like there’s a 2 story space that is currently empty that would be a great place for a bar/restaurant with a roof deck overlooking P.O. sq.
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Are you talking about this?

https://flic.kr/p/24H4frY

No water feature just an area for plantings.
https://flic.kr/p/F7Kc7x

https://flic.kr/p/GD6mM7

Looking towards the buildings lobby area from the south entrance.

https://flic.kr/p/F7KbuF

https://flic.kr/p/24H4d3E

Looking north from the south entrance

https://flic.kr/p/GD6gbY

https://flic.kr/p/F7K61K

https://flic.kr/p/23pHnc4
 
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BeeLine said:
Yes...hoping for something Earls-esque.
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Given the rather enormous poster in the window advertising a certain financial services firm that is known to be relocated to 100 Federal St... would you settle for something Putnam-esque?

I have nothing to do with that relocation... that said, I can only interpret that Putnam's signage like (I assume) every other pedestrian would--that Putnam is going into that exact space. Right? What am I missing here? Why would the poster go up on those windows if Putnam isn't set to occupy the space?!
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DBM said:
617 said:
Given the rather enormous poster in the window advertising a certain financial services firm that is known to be relocated to 100 Federal St... would you settle for something Putnam-esque?

I have nothing to do with that relocation... that said, I can only interpret that Putnam's signage like (I assume) every other pedestrian would--that Putnam is going into that exact space. Right? What am I missing here? Why would the poster go up on those windows if Putnam isn't set to occupy the space?!
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You’re probably right...I guess the neighborhoid will remain M-F 9-5...
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617 said:
DBM said:
You’re probably right...I guess the neighborhoid will remain M-F 9-5...
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I wouldn't be that discouraged, necessarily, after all... this is mere months from opening now, and it includes a fairly large hotel, big retail, etc... true mixed-use. Just a 275 yard walk from 100 Federal St. to the Congress Sq. development (as I just measured it), putting it a touch closer than Downtown Crossing, the Theater District, etc...

.... although some folks may never get that far, assuming they'll be struck blind/paralytic/bleeding 'n' staggered in the street by the gadawful, Medusa-like monstrosity that is the glass box that got erected atop Congress Sq.
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BeeLine said:
DBM said:
Not really. This is a new entrance to that area of the building, so I'm thinking 617's Earls-esque is quiet possible. Why would Putnam need a roof deck?

https://flic.kr/p/F7TLD6
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Excellent question and I have no idea... but again, that huge poster advertising Putnam in that window. Is that not overwhelming evidence arguing for Putnam being the eventual occupant of that space?
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DBM said:
Excellent question and I have no idea... but again, that huge poster advertising Putnam in that window. Is that not overwhelming evidence arguing for Putnam being the eventual occupant of that space?
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No. Putnam is moving their HQ to 11 floors of the tower this year.

The firm has secured a 15-year lease agreement with Boston Properties for nearly 250,000 square feet of space — equating to 11 floors, along with a highly visible presence in the lobby and on the building's facade. Putnam expects to have approximately 1,000 employees in the new facility after relocation, with flexibility to accommodate expected growth of the firm's employee base in years to come.

https://www.putnam.com/newsroom/pre...w-headquarters-in-2018-at-100-federal-street/
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This reminds of an Apple store (which is neither good nor bad, just saying). Hey, at least it didn't get turned into a giant Sephora. I still can't get over that in Faneuil Hall on the former greenhouse location.
 
datadyne007 said:
No. Putnam is moving their HQ to 11 floors of the tower this year.
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That's a heckuva a confident "no" to assert, especially when using an article to bolster your argument that states that Putnam is going to have a "highly visible presence in the lobby"

But perhaps you know for a fact that the Putnam lobby presence cited in your media report will not be in the space that has the giant Putnam poster in the window?
 
DBM said:
That's a heckuva a confident "no" to assert, especially when using an article to bolster your argument that states that Putnam is going to have a "highly visible presence in the lobby"

But perhaps you know for a fact that the Putnam lobby presence cited in your media report will not be in the space that has the giant Putnam poster in the window?
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I guess I can't assume it's a hard no, but I always took the marketing to be about their HQ. Maybe they'll take that space. I just didn't know that Putnam had a retail presence. I took highly visible in the lobby to be like a logo or feature.
 
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