For years, the gritty retail building at Brookline Avenue and Boylston Street has remained a bystander in the Fenway’s revitalization.
Not anymore.
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For years, the gritty retail building at Brookline Avenue and Boylston Street has remained a bystander in the Fenway’s revitalization.
Not anymore.
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This seems like a case of incredibly bad timing and lack of foresight. I'm not an architect nor a civil engineer, but right now the Muddy River is being liberated and that whole area is going to be under construction for a good long while. The construction inconvenience wouldn't be so bad, but the point of the river dredging is to improve flood control. The Fenway is called the Fenway for a reason--it's a swamp. So with global warming, we know that flooding will only get more extreme in the future, possibly MUCH more extreme (see Manhattan). Shouldn't we see how the new flood overflow area handles bad storms first before building a huge residential building right at ground zero? If some shops get damaged in a flood, no big deal. It is a big deal if thousands of people have to be evacuated every time there's a heavy rain.
320 units won't hold thousands of people. That aside, existing flooding issues aren't such that private development needs to be prohibited; and, the Muddy River project should only improve conditions.
The overflow area will be at the front door of the unit. It just seems nutty to not wait and see how the overflow performs in a bad storm.
I guess I was thinking back to my days living in the Fenway when we had four college students in one unit.
Someone please find a way to refurbish and triple the size of the Star/Shaws Market!!!!
How about instead of building yet another apartment building, as beautiful as it may be, I propose knocking down the existing building that's there now and putting in a PARK!? Maybe? With trees and benches and picnic tables, so that the thousands of people that live and work here (myself included) would have a nice green space to walk through, or sit and enjoy lunch on a beautiful spring day. It could be a another link in the Emerald necklace, no, not a link, a JEWEL in the Emerald necklace. I know it's already surrounded by parks but why are we always so fixated on building more aprtment/retail buildings? I'm sure the folks that live in the current Trilogy building would just love having their view destroyed by another building 20 feet away. Small parks are wounderful oases in the middle of a city, Ramler Park around the corner on Peterborough St is one example. It used to be a parking lot, and now it's a beautiful spot to go on a nice day and just be. Boylston St fom Ipswich to Park Drive is already becoming a wind tunnel due to the new buildings there, do we need to make it hurricane alley? I've lived and/or worked in the Fenway neighborhood since the 70's, and I applaud all of the changes thus far but I can't agree with a new building at the Boylston / Brookline Ave corner. If they want it to serve as a gateway to the new Fenway, put up an actual gate! similar to the one in Chinatown. We could call it the Fengate!
really? There's plenty of parkland in the area already. Should the City really spend millions of dollars to acquire this parcel? How about fixing and maintaining the parkland we have before buying out this private property.
Can we get rid of that horrible shaw's.......!!!