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By Scott Van Voorhis Boston Herald Business Reporter Monday, November 27, 2006 A development venture that could reshape the neighborhood around Fenway Park just got a key green light. The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority has put on the sales block a stretch of highway air rights near the ballpark that is important to a major project featuring the Red Sox [team stats] and a local developer. The highway authority is selling the so-called Parcel 7, the right to build over the highway between Brookline Avenue and Beacon Street, near the Yawkey commuter rail station. And that decision, in turn, is expected to allow a stalled development plan, featuring the Sox and local developer and anti-gun activist John Rosenthal, to move forward. Rosenthal and the Sox are pushing plans that call for a mix of housing, parking and an expanded Yawkey Station transportation hub near the ballpark. But since that plan was unveiled more than a year ago, it has sat in limbo, with the Turnpike making no move to unload Parcel 7, a crucial part of the proposal. ?I think the neighborhood would like to see that project (move forward),? said Lisa Soli of the Fenway Community Development Corp.. ?It would be nice to see something other than a sea of parking lots.? Some have concerns, though. The intitial plans called for a parking garage, on a deck over the Turnpike, surrounded by housing and other buildings, noted Bill Richardson of the Fenway Civic Assocation. He fears the result may be a glorified parking complex, rather than a larger, urban project that would be more beneficial to the neighborhood. ?I can tell you, from the neighborhood?s perspective, we are looking for a development that adds to the urban environment as opposed to a parking garage surrounded by a few businesses and homes,? Richardson said. |
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Hopefully a building will soar over the mass pike soon
It's come to the point where the first thing I do when I see his name at the top of the article is to search it for any incidence of the word "soar," although I will say that he hasn't used it as much as of late |
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Game plan: $450M Fenway complex
By Scott Van Voorhis Boston Herald Business Reporter Wednesday, January 10, 2007 A local developer aims to team up with the Boston Red Sox on a $450 million air-rights complex plan that would deck over the nearby Massachusetts Turnpike and further transform the neighborhood around Fenway Park. Newton builder John Rosenthal yesterday unveiled plans to build a mixed-use complex across the street from the ballpark, near where there are alsoplans for a new rail and bus transportation hub. The proposed project features 560 apartments in two high-rises as well as more than 1,200 parking spots in two garages and a host of new neighborhood shops. While the condo market has cooled, demand for new rentals is heating up, Rosenthal said. ?We are bullish on it, especially in such a strong rental market,? he said. Rosenthal, who has tried for years to build a signature high-rise project near Fenway, said he is also close to reaching an agreement to bring the Red Sox on as minority partners. And he?s also brought on board a big-name architect, Carlos Zapata, best known for designing the new Soldier Field in Chicago. The air-rights proposal - which would have to pass muster with the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority - envisions a parking garage, as well as retail shops, taking shape on a deck to be built over the highway on so-called Parcel 7. That is adjacent to the Yawkey Way commuter rail station near the bustling corner of Brookline Ave.and Lansdowne Street. Separately, the MBTA is in the early stages of converting the modest Yawkey rail stop into a full-fledged transportation hub that would include bus service. The Red Sox are also discussing the future purchase of a 340-space garage Rosenthal owns at the head of Lansdowne Street across from the ballpark, Rosenthal said. His proposal, filed yesterday, was the only one received by the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, which had put Parcel 7 - a key stretch of land and air-rights over the highway - out to bid. Link |
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Rental = good idea. BU and Berkeley, as well as the many smaller schools in the area create a demand for rentals.
Yawkey improvement = good. Thats where I* go to catch the Worcester train, and having a bigger station would probably mean more trains stopping. My problem was just a month ago, when I came on the last train by. Yawkey = 2 minute walk. Back bay = 20 minute walk at 2am. (im cheap, no cab for me) |
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units of measure
Actually, "apartments" and "housing units" are different. Technically speaking, apartments are only for rent. Condominiums are also "housing units" but are only for sale, and not for rent. So the number of apartments plus the number of condos, would equal the total number of housing units. That said, newspapers, often incorrectly, use these terms interchangeably.
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Surprised none of you hawks mentioned the Courant article. They don't have a website, but check the library and local businesses for an edition.
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One Kenmore
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The building's base like the base of the Trump Tower in Chicago.
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The long, low building is really nice but the towers seem way out of place and way out of scale. I'm sure they will get hell for that by people in Brookline.
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And it's that logic that keeps Boston housing prices so high. You've got the Photonics Center, Warren Towers, Landmark and Trilogy all within 1,000 ft, plus the best public transit service outside of downtown or Copley Square... if a pair of dinky 20 story towers (and come on, 20 stories is pretty darn dinky) isn't appropriate here, then the complainers should be forced to show on a map exactly where such a location would be for these.
And Brookline better not complain - their boundary line is some four blocks west of the western-most portion of this project. Surely they wouldn't be worried about any shadows cast by these at 6 in the morning. |
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It amazes me that the pru was built in the middle of flatlands, and today people bitch about anything over 8 floors. |
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Well the last time Brookline went for modern high rise apartments in the 60s they got stuck with the many horrible and grim things that sadly dot the town now.
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Before the Mass Pike was built, a movie theatre stood on this site.
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2 questions
Are the plans for parcels 8 & 9 dead?
Could Yawkey station be moved to parcel 8 to allow a connection to Kenmore Sq Station? |
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Noticed this blurb on the current Banker & Tradesman, but unfortunately you need a subscription to read online.
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Man oh man, the Fenway is getting all the nice development! Even those "towers" look pretty nice and not overwhelming.
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