Worst Development Proposal Nominations

[George_Apley]

All members are encouraged to nominate an active proposal for a building site in the Boston area that is not yet under construction that they believe would make the built environment demonstrably worse than what is currently on the site or in the neighborhood.

 

[Equilibria]

At this point, I think we could just hold a nomination for "whatever dorm MIT proposed on Vassar St. this year". This is actually the least offensive of the three, but gets extra points for being the capstone in an entirely inconsistent strip of buildings, so that it looks like you just set three different students' architecture lab models up on a windowsill.

 

[Scott]

Here is a dark horse candidate, Our Lady of Victories Church at 19 Isabella St. Bay Village. They want to give it the Franken-church treatment like that other monstrosity.

http://thebostonsun.com/2021/01/21/bvhdc-hears-advisory-review-for-isabella-st-church-condo-proposal/

 

[Suffolk 83]

Skanska Office Tower | 380 Stuart Street | Back Bay

John Hancock looks to build a new 26-story tower in the Back Bay By Jon Chesto GLOBE STAFF AUGUST 05, 2015 John Hancock, the Boston life insurer that built two of the Back Bay’s most iconic towers decades ago, wants to add a third high-rise to the city’s fast-changing skyline. At 26 stories...

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380 Stuart st- Apologies if its already won

 

[Suffolk 83]

The Beacon | 819 Beacon St. | Fenway

There has been some discussion of this lot on Beacon St over in the Children's IMP thread, but now that it has a real proposal on its own right I think it's time for its own thread. Scape now has development rights, and their massive PDF Project Impact Report (349 pages, 169 mb) for 1252-1270...

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[theSil]

The updated Oxford Office building proposal

Oxford Office Bldg. | 125 Lincoln St | Leather District

Perhaps a silly question - is there a reason why this parcel isn't approved for an "overbuild" above the adjacent southbound onramp, similar to some parcels in the Seaport? I don't like the massing of the current proposal as-is and far be it from me to propose something that would create more of...

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