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Three-tower plan for parking lot in front of the Garden
By adamg on Tue, 09/10/2013 - 2:20pm
The Boston Business Journal reports on the latest proposal over the past couple decades by the owners of the Garden for the parking lot where the Garden used to be - a mixed-use development with a 45-story tower and two shorter buildings.
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NIMBY meltdown in 3, 2, 1...
"I don't like the idea of seeing something in the distance, therefore it shouldn't be built!"
"This might cast a shadow on the river once a year for four minutes, beginning at midnight on the first Sunday in February!"
"Chopping five floors from the proposal will measurably improve the city and will not be a transparent attempt to obtain validation by having the design changed because I demanded it!"
"It will make it less convenient to drive on one street, if I ever choose to drive there, even though it's about a mile or five from where I live!"
"Things are changing! How dare they!"
Alternatively....
"Adding 1,000 units of housing to a neighborhood that has only a few thousand units of housing is a significant transformation; it may be a good thing or it may be a bad thing; in any case it is worthy of some public discussion. People who live in the neighborhood have a perspective that even the best market research may have missed; listening to them often makes the resulting development more successful."
That's my position, at least, and my house is nearly as close to the site as the tower is tall. Call it NIMBY meltdown if you must.
What exactly is your concern with adding new residents?
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West End residents don't want
West End residents don't want any increase in the filthy unwashed masses on their doorstep more than currently entering and exiting the garden area on a regular basis.
Paradox
If you already own, and you're an asshole, you have a personal interest in keeping new units off the market.
At least when looked at on the individual, game theory level. 9/10 you'll be better off due to the increased economic activity associated with growth.
There is no neighborhood here now
unless a few people live in lofts above stores and offices in the Bulfinch Triangle. Otherwise, the closest residents are way over on Endicott Street in the North End, or Bowdoin Street on Beacon Hill.
NSTIMBY
"No Shit Towers in My Back Yahd"
Build as high as you want but can we pleeeease have some architecture that doesn't look like shit for a change. We're going to have look at the damn things in the back of every shot of the bridge from now on, so it better be something decent.
It's going to be next door to
the Your Bank Name Here Garden. It's going to be hard for it not to look like an architectural masterpiece.
It's going to hide the New Garden
which is a good thing ... and was always the intent when the New Garden was built. That blank wall was never supposed to be exposed for two decades!
oh yeah
A tower of cheap panels and glass slapped together like a lame-ass lego set from hell is going to be much better. I mean, maybe they'll come up with something that looks good and fits the economics of the project, but normally the whole thing goes the low road and you get some ug-a-lee buildings.
It's too bad
Developers and Real Estate trusts are the ones doing construction now a days, and they have the bottom line always in mind. The Walmatization of our economy has even hit multimillion dollar centerpieces of the city.
We live in the new gilded age, but unfortunately we no longer have privileged class folk trying to create legacies via tower construction and architecture like they did back in the day.
Now it's just about more money, and seeing who can best rule Washington.
Connection to Subway
If they build an enclosed connection between North Station (Railroad) and North Station (Orange/Green) they can build whatever they want. People should not have to walk outside to make a connection in the same station.
Any ideas for redesign of the BPL Johnson Building?...
Any ideas for redesign of the Copley Square Boston Public Library Johnson Building?
http://www.bpl.org/compass/files/2013/08/Volume-1-...
http://www.bpl.org/compass/2013/08/05/johnson-buil...
http://www.bpl.org/compass/
I suggest a wrecking ball and
I suggest a wrecking ball and a recreation of the original Harvard Medical School building behind it.
Steel skeleton??
Nice to see they are finally getting to work on this - unfortunately it's luxury apartment project number 436 in the pipeline and with thousands of units ahead of this project- this (and a number of other projects) could end up steel skeletons in the sky. Hope the BRA is somehow bonding these things now after the debacle that was Filene's.