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[Cotuit]

Skyline’s ’South’ pole: Train station condos to be Hub’s highest [BostonHerald.com]

[Lone Ranger]

I like that a lot.  A lot a lot.

Edited by Lone Ranger, 08 April 2006 - 07:20 PM.

[provid]

This image is a little bigger:

[Cotuit]

South Station office high-rise gets BRA’s OK [Boston Herald]

[Cotuit]

City approves 40-story South Station tower [Boston.com]

[atlrvr]

This isn't South Station news, but its close (1 block away).  There is a new Whole Foods being pitched for a small surface lot at the corner of Essex St. and South St. between the Financial District and Leather District.  It would supposedly be topped with uber-priced condos for that part of town (~$800 psf).

It's good to get another grocery store downtown, but I just wish it was a little more mainstream.

[Cotuit]

Actually, I think that would be the only grocery store Downtown. The Shaw's at Prudential isn't Downtown, that's Back Bay, so this is good news, even if Whole Foods isn't mainstream, the residents Downtown aren't exactly mainstream either.

[atlrvr]

Yeah....I guess it would be...I was including the Whole Foods at Beacon Hill on Cambridge St as the other.

The expected start date on this is this winter, but we'll see.

[Cotuit]

atlrvr, on Jul 11 2006, 02:28 PM, said:

Yeah....I guess it would be...I was including the Whole Foods at Beacon Hill on Cambridge St as the other.

Yeah, that's not Downtown either, though a lot of Downtown people shop there. There was quite a bit of resistance to that becoming a Whole Foods, it was a Stop & Shop and a lot of older fixed income people were upset about the change.

[atlrvr]

A bit more information about the Whole Foods downtown.

It will be part of a 15-story residentail tower to be called "The Leighton".  It will be built at the site of the propsed 2 Financial Center, which is now obviously dead.

Still no hard date on construction, but likely by the end of the year.

[nowyano]

I'll believe it when I see the construction start...

[Cotuit]

Interesting article from the Phoenix about the SST:

Technopolis lost. A development dream that didn’t come true. [The Phoenix]

[atlrvr]

Interesting article.  I had no idea it was so research based at inception.

I will say, that the original height would have made me nervous.  I live one block away, and when the planes taking off from Logan use the runway with a flight path over South Station, they seem to fly eerily low......I can believe that if an engine failed on take off it could result in a disaster.

For the shadow arguement, I don't buy it.  I can't see any residential building affected significantly.

[atlrvr]

From this weeks print BBJ, David Perry of Hines says:

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Perry said he will break ground by the end of the year and has "a lot of people working very fast" to make sure plans proceed according to schedule.

While Perry and his competitors don't have committed tenants, developers are confident once their buildings begin to take shape tenants will get more serious about signing leases.

This tower will have the biggest affect on the skyline, though I'm a bit nervous about how it will look from South Boston....in the above redering from Summer St., it look amazing....plus there are two more mid-rises in the works that don't have renderings yet