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Government Center Garage is so last century
By adamg on Tue, 06/21/2016 - 9:58am
Bldup.com reports the developers who plan to put the sleekest goshdarned towers you've ever seen atop the Government Center Garage are going to call the new development Bulfinch Crossing.
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Crossing?
I can understand the Bulfinch part. For those of you who do not know, the area south of Causeway Street, East by North Washington Street, and West by Merrimack Street is called the Bulfinch Triangle owing that Charles Bulfinch (The architect of the State House, St. Stephen's in the North End, the building that had the Littlest Bar on Broad Street, and the beautiful First Church of Christ in Lancaster amongst others) laid out the streets (Canal, Friend, Lancaster, etc.) in the former mill pond there.
Why does everything have to be Crossing or Commons, or Landing? There is a development now in Hanover called Sconset Landing. There is no landing and it is a good 75 miles and a ferry ride from Sconset.
Anyone want to suggest any other names? HeroinMarket? BusBelchingPlace? The Offices at Ghastly Garage? The Galleria at Double Cop Car Parked Mall?
Anyone else notice that the garage looks gone in the new renderings? Good for them if they are going to daylight Congress Street.
Much of the garage will still
Much of the garage will still be there, serving the new buildings. But! they are removing it over Congress Street, and that major connection will be daylighted.
where have you been?
where have you been? Congress St has always been planned to be daylighted as part of this project. You will not be able to see the garage from New Sudbury, New Chardon, or Congress.
Even the rendering in the linked article that shows 1 tower on New Sudbury with the garage still visible is the interim condition when only the 1st building is constructed.
Crossing seems appropriate to me
It is smack in the middle of Congress Street, Sudbury Street, New Chardon.
One of the definitions of crossing is a "junction where one street or road crosses another."
It could be worse however. I remember the roar of consternation when a housing development went up in my home town. Tuscany Downs. It is still used as an example of bad naming 30 years after the fact.