good evening everyone we'd like to welcome you all to the February 4th monthly meeting of the Boston Civic design commission the open meeting Law requires that we notify the public that a recording of this meeting is being made by commission staff and we'd like to call the meeting to order my name is Linda eastley co-chair of the Boston Civic design commission and I'd like to thank the Commissioners for their professional guidance that helps us
shape the city of Boston into a more beautiful sustainable and Equitable City for all its citizens for those joining us for the first time the commission meets two to three times each month to review projects proposed in the city and that are over 100,000 square feet or have other public significance and we welcome you all tonight Commissioners we have only one project on our agenda we have no
votes at the end of the meeting we also have a brief update by Diana Fernandez on the article 80 modernization so we hope you can stay to participate in that but first we have a really important um part of our agenda and that is a thank you to Amy Chambers for most of you know that for the past two years Amy um has been the Planning and Zoning director for the city of Boston and she's also been an
ex officio member of our bcdc which has been great and for those of you who attend um frequently you know that um Amy has added a lot of value to our meetings she's helped to frame each of the projects something that we haven't had before um frame them and give us the zoning context so we wanted to um say a special thanks to her from the com on behalf of the Commissioners and I think Diana you also wanted to add your
own thank you absolutely um I also just wanted to make one quick clarification Linda we're going to be coming to you next month with the article 80 modernization uh changes so um stay tuned um for more information there uh but yes we we wanted to share with this commission um that Amy Chambers um has uh departed from the planning department um as you know Amy came to
Boston to sort of launch Citywide zoning reform and to put Boston on a path um to coherent um to a coherent U Municipal zoning code uh for our residents for our development community and for our staff um she delivered dramatic changes that will shape Boston for years to come and in just two years this is a long list um Amy oversaw the completion of five neighborhood plans including Charlestown downtown East
Boston matapan and New Market she also delivered the Austin bright and needs assessment manage the development of the Adu guide book um and several zoning initiatives including the Citywide uh Child Care zoning a new use table within our zoning code um the squares and streets uh districts that were adopted into the zoning code and um the adoption of new development standards through inclusion Arizon linkage and Ned zero carbon which was just approved last uh week at the
zoning commission um she also launched squares and streets um the Austin brighten community plan um the uh zoning reform impact tracker tracking our progress along um areas that um have been recently rezoned um and the efficacy of the new zoning in creating faster timelines for projects to build um as well as our reshaping the role of the planning department with its relationship to the Zoning Board of appeal
um and efforts to shift away from you know one off negotiations um that were based on development approval so she has really fundamentally reshaped um the Planning and Zoning division um really included um prioritizing comprehensive planning enabling zoning reform and centering um the analysis of Planning and Zoning principles that um you all get to benefit from as Commissioners here with her guidance um we are really sad to see Amy go
on a personal front um she was an incredible colleague um one that never shied away from engaging in thoughtful dialogue um and that brought the sort of best uh thinking uh to bear so we're really um sad to see her go um but excited to welcome uh Ted um who uh is joining from the planning team and uh will be uh filling in Amy's role um as a planning representative and ex officio seat on the
commission um uh in in the obviously in this meeting but many meetings to come so um we really want to thank um Amy for her service and welcome Ted into this new role um and uh are excited to continue to support the commission with um many of the things that Amy um put into practice with her team thank you Diana that was a really busy two years anyway I know the commissioner joined me in
wishing her well and her new role um in Connecticut we will now uh turn to a roll call of the Commissioners and Commissioners if you could say president as I call your name and I don't know if Ted is um an ex officio official ex officio member of tonight Diana but um not tonight but we are working on the paperwork to get Ted um brought into the system next time um he will be here today um to speak to the planning
uh context for the 776 Summer Street project uh but um next month we hope that he joins us as an ex officio member of the commission great so Ted I'll give you a bye for tonight thank you looking forward to next month we're glad to have you on board Ted thank you um Diana Fernandez present shaa Gilly Smith present David Hassen present mcky young Kim uh present haven't seen
Kathy karitas join us just yet she might join a little later Mimi Love present David manf Freddy present Bill Ron present Kirk Sykes present and myself Linda eastley present um Lizzie I know we have some meeting minutes to approve but since we um don't have Christina with us should we push those off until our March meeting
I can um I can go ahead and um fill in for Christina um uh today so um thank you and good evening Commissioners um Pro the regulations of Article 28 and the Boston zoning code planning department staff have have prepared the following recommendations for your consideration um a proposed project known as Phase 2 of The L Street Street Station Redevelopment at 776 Summer Street oh Diana I'm I'm sorry
to interrupt we were just talking about meeting minutes oh I'm sorry no worries no worries I know we have a couple of absences today and so everyone um thank you for your patience as we move through these I was um just asking Lizzie if we wanted to go ahead and push off the approval of meeting minutes until our March meeting um I think we could go ahead have you um gotten a chance to review those meeting minutes they have not been distributed okay no worries then we can push this off to the next meeting um thank you for raising that
um to our attention Linda thank you Lizzie I appreciate it um and now after the meeting minutes I think we're ready for a report from the Review Committee which Diana will do to introduce our singular project which is 776 Summer Street and a quick note that Commissioners love and Sykes are both recused from this project so they do not need to vote all right Diana um and just as a reminder
to commissioner's love and syes um it would be great if you stay on because we need Quorum for tonight um and want to make sure that um you vote as recused um going back to my script here um I won't bore you with The Upfront section um but we'll go right into um our report from subcommittee um a proposed project known as Phase 2 of the El Street um station Redevelopment at 776 Summer Street in South Boston is
seeking article 80b entitlement it contemplates the development of approximately a million um grow square feet of residential Hotel office and Retail uses and approximately 1,214 off street parking spaces and four buildings on approximately a 6.8 acre um portion of a 15.2 Acre Site in a accordance with the previously approved PDA master plan and development
plan the proponent filed a supplemental information document on January 17th uh 2025 and the planning department hosted a public meeting on February 3rd uh 2025 planning department staff recommend that the commission vote to review the to review the proposed project um and that's all I have for you Linda thank you Diana I appreciate you um so Commissioners is there motion to review 776 Summer Street so
moved and a second please second thank you and um all in favor please answer I shaa Gilly Smith Sean I think you're still onute y I thank you David hen hi mck young Kim hi think Kathy has not joined us just yet David manf Freddy hi was that your
voice Kathy it was oh great you're here with us I don't know if you want to vote or were part of this um a motion to review 776 summer I did hear it and I vote I thank you um David manf Freddy hi thank you Bill Ron hi and myself Lindy eastley we will review and since it's our only project for tonight which is extremely unusual we were all saying that we weren't sure
we'd ever had a single project for a monthly meeting we will go ahead and start um the presentation tonight with 776 summer and I think Ted you're going to kick us off wearing Amy's shoes and give us the zoning context uh great thank you uh appreciate it and um look forward to working with you all I I had been involved in supporting Amy's work a little bit more of a behind the scenes role uh looking forward to continuing that work with you in our new roles
uh so I'll start off with just two slides uh just want to remind folks the last time this proponent was before the bcdc the proponent sought a zoning entitlement via a zoning map amendment to allow a swap of uses from uh block a at the top of the page to Block C at the bottom of the page and at that time it was understood that the proponent would be back to refine public realm as well as the orientation of the building and the design of the buildings as part
of their large project review process which brings them here this evening next slide please I apologize the orientation is now rotating are we seeing the slides Ted I'm able to see them Bill are you is it not showing up for you no I can I can see them as well yeah me too okay okay and if you want to imagine in your in your mind's eye we're we're looking
we're looking at a site plan before uh and now we've zoomed out to the larger context uh and I uh brought up this slide I'm I'm good I'm good I'm sorry good all right great uh so we brought up this slide just as a reminder of the surrounding uses that informed the review of this proposal by the planning department uh so on the uh right side now of the loock a uh is across the street from Metal of Honor part and it directly
abuts an MBTA power plant uh most recently staff review of the building orientation uh and public realm around this building took into account MBTA input about the impacts of a residential use Ab buding uh an electric power generation facility uh and uh as a reminder last time we were here uh was to talk about the swap of block A and C uses the lab and residential and it was uh determin that uh having residential next to a power plant would be okay as long as it was designed well uh and
and that uh will uh form the scope of tonight's conversation uh and then also on Block C uh The Wanted to remind folks that this project serves as a gateway to the neighborhood and plays a significant role in activating summer and East First Street as well as providing a connection to the Waterfront and new open space and the planning study undertaken during the initial review process when this was still uh the Edison facility uh it emphasized that in intersection of Summer
Street and First and said that massing and floor plate uh changes driven by the proposed change in uses uh should be done in a way that considers City making opportunities at this Gateway location uh so that was a planning finding for Block SE and that corner that's been with us for a number of years now uh and moving on now I think I'll hand it off to Urban Design staff to review the actual proposal great um let's see if we pull
up the Urban Design slides I can speak to those um so we do apologize there's quite a bit here um we do want to highlight um from an Urban Design perspective that our team has been working really closely to assess the service area and to ensure that it's designed to have minimal impact on the public realm so you can see that labeled um as uh number one um we've also f focused on the second element which is the building design um should also not
mask the garage and service entry um from the public RightWay so ensuring that we're really thinking about um that public um realm uh condition at the ground plane and then uh our third comment here is to ensure that the corner spaces um that are uh brought to bear by the design of this building um should be supported by active ground floor uh building uses um so you'll see as this proponent gets into more information um how um we can work
together to realize um some of that ground floor activation um additionally we've also been working on um thinking through how um the ground floor um is creating those pedestrian scaled elements particularly um where it's disconnected from Street elevation um so thinking through how um the resiliency regulations impact some of those connections and how we can better design um some of that ground floor um from a
programmatic uh and design standpoint and then the final two elements here really focus on the vehicular access and specifically um how do we ensure that we have um minimal impact on the public realm and are thinking about the design of those right of ways uh to support a really vibrant um neighborhood Fabric and then our last piece here is um ensuring that there's additional study um to ensure that this area positively contributes to the broader
public um realm Network so as Ted mentioned um there's a series of Open Spaces um adjacent um to this development site as well as a really vibrant um uh Community fabric um that we want to make sure we're stitching together um with this project and and being intentional about those key connections um and intersections where we want to uh open up views and connectivity to other open spaces and then from a massing
standpoint um we've been uh working really closely with this team um one of the key considerations on through the master plan was the um respect for um the neighborhood east of First Street um while still creating a really Dynamic uh and active um Main Street so you know how is the articulation of the massing uh respond ing um to that neighborhood scale uh while still maintaining uh an active storefront and then
uh we also really want to focus on um kill you know clearly identifying and activating the corners along the Thomas Edison way intersection um and the opportunities between that and uh other public real um connections that are brought to bear as part of this project um and then finally um as noted earlier um masking the parking and service entry from the public right of way Along Thomas Edison way um is a really critical Factor
especially since that uh will serve as a critical Corridor um for um future building program to connect to um other public spaces and public realm opportunities thank you Diana oh more massing sorry one more slide here um and uh we also wanted to um speak to Block C and specifically um um highlight the
importance of breaking up and activating uh the Summer Street edge of the block um it is a a really uh wide stretch here um that spans the entire block so how is the articulation of uh the massing uh breaking up that scale and creating barity as um pedestrians are moving through that and then also really considering the orientation and position in of the massing as a gateway to the neighborhood and a transition from that neighborhood scale so how is
it that we're thinking about um how the massing itself sits in relationship to its context and um how do we um bring I I think bring to bear some of the elements that were really important to the original U master plan approval um that came through Community process around that sort of um articulation of massing right um and its relationship to the neighborhood Fabric and and how we achieve um a a building
program that addresses all those needs and then for Block e um we also wanted to highlight um the importance of the massing in helping to Define and activate the corner of um Thomas uh the Thomas Edison way in intersection um and specifically thinking about how the building design and massing can help frame and
enable clear access to uh primary entries including the hotel and residential lobbies um so how is the sort of landscape program and um the key sort of ground floor um activation working together um to create a really vibrant um public real and also signify clear entry uh points um for pedestrians moving through this space Linda I'll hand it back to
you you Diana thank you Ted appreciate it all right I think we're ready for the proponent team's presentation and as the presentation is coming up uh a quick reminder to the Commissioners that um this plan is not oriented north south so um North is
actually to the left of the site plan just to give you a sense toward the water uh yeah that's a great uh reminder commissioner eastley well uh thanks everybody uh good evening it's great to see all the Commissioners again I am Melissa shrock EVP uh at hrp group uh as staff explained we're here tonight to review our Phase 2 Sid filing that we recently filed for article 0b review as Ted mentioned we were last before
you in November where we presented the development plan and related master plan Amendment with refinements to uses on two of the blocks and refinements to the zoning envelopes on three of the four blocks in phase two you approve those refinements at the November meeting next um tonight you're going to hear from our phase two design teams uh which includes util as the architect of block a AOS Street on Block B gendler on Block C and SCB on block e in the 1898
building as well as jcfo who continues as our landscape architect across the site you probably remember them from the phase one uh we're still very early in the design process having only produced conceptual design packages at this point uh though we did have uh professional renderings done for the Sid document which you'll see tonight but please just know that those are simply high quality renderings of very early Design Concepts and not intended
to represent final designs next these are the topics we'll cover tonight next and and Ted Ted put put this up so I won't spend a lot of time but as a very quick uh project overview this is the phase one plan which you approved in January of 2023 with blocks dnf framing the three Edison turbine halls and the Waterfront prominade next and now just layering in the four
phase two blocks which are the topics of are the topic of tonight's discussion next and then you will likely remember that these are these are the use and dimensional modifications that we brought before you in November where Block C at the corner of Summer and East first becomes a commercial building and block a across from Metal of Honor Park becomes a residential building the heights of the those three buildings along East First Street are redistributed a bit while preserving the setback uh from the master plan on blocks
B and C and then as we discussed at our last bcdc meeting these are diagrams kind of representing zoning envelopes not actual building massing or design next and then here on this image uh Diana just showed you a few uh close-ups but here on this image you see the combined massing refinements that the phase 2 uh design teams have been working on and what they're going to share with you tonight Colin thanks Melissa
um I'm Colin curlyy senior associate with field operations we're the Landscape Architects on the project um and if you go to the next slide um just to kind of give a brief overview um and um refresher for those who are very familiar with phase one on the public realm um here in terms of our approach to the public realm um we're thinking about the site as being kind of a collection of the four distinct precincts um starting at the bottom in green the Summer Street Gateway um really looking to activate the Summer
Street Edge um with planting bike Lanes um and opportunities for retail spill out onto Summer Street um and so Block C um as far as this evening's discussion really playing a role in that piece of the public realm um also um how that public realm is turning the corner onto East First Street the Waterfront prominade from phase one celebrating industrial artifacts um providing public access to the Waterfront and a variety of um you know flexible and open programmed spaces in Orange at the
center the turbine Precinct um kind of the historic core of the development um centered around the the historic turbine Halls um and beneath the word turbine Precinct turbine alley being that kind of key East West um or one of the key eastwest connections um new pedestrian connections through the site and in pink um at the top of the page um is the Edison Plaza um this is most directly engaged by the buildings you'll see this evening um and that we're really seeing as
um kind of the welcoming draw um for the neighborhood coming from M Street um into the site um and providing um a seamless connection down to the Waterfront prominade go to the next slide here um oh is that oh there we go um this next slide here um you can see we've been working very closely um with the block teams in terms of the relationship of massing and ground floor use um to the public realm so if you look down at Block C um looking at
working with the Block C team on the articulation of the ground floor plane um opening up space um for um for spill out um and connections to that streetcape um at the ground floor level um and then if you look also um up at the intersection um of Thomas Edison way kind of um among the cluster of blocks a b and e um we've really been looking at um the importance of that intersection of Thomas Edison way um reinforcing kind of a strong park-like connection um
from the Edison Plaza through to the neighborhood and vice versa so you'll see the connection um diagrams or diagrammatic lines there um opening up space and view corridors into the site um both to the 1898 building um and then also along the plaza um to the Waterfront with that I'll pass it over to Tim in the block 18 uh great uh hello Commissioners uh next slide please um I want to start with the the massing strategy for block a again
um East is at the top um uh we we've uh looking at the the the buildings that are across the spaces and streets of the project we decided to break the mass of the building into three sub masses um a longer Mass along service Drive which extends past um Thomas Edison way um an intermediate length mass that faces across to block b and then a shorter mass that is in alignment with the street wall of East
for Street the logic of those decreasing sizes is um that they each respond to the scale of the buildings either across the street or in the immediate adjacent area the other Advantage is that the short ends of those masses are another opportunity by objectifying those masses to break down the scale of the building even more while having the entire uh project have some conceptual uh consistency uh the other thing that you'll
see is that we've rotated two of the three masses Off the Grid of East First Street and the larger South Boston grid and that has a couple of advantages one is it it privileges uh more open space where we're uh proposing active ground floor uses um and I'll show that in the next slide and secondly the rotation helps to turn residen units away from a parallel relationship to the Future lab building across the street um and the other
Advantage is that um relative to the to the electric substation and the port Beyond it helps with some of the acoustic Dynamics as well uh next slide um uh uh dropping to the ground floor plan uh you see the allocation of ground floor uses uh we have a reail space at the 100% corner at East First Street and Thomas Edison way we've got uh the lobby at the seam between two
of the masses uh opposite the the lobby of Block B right across the street um and we have a series of amenity spaces on the opposite corner and because of the rotation those lean into and provide views um uh uh uh down to the Waterfront and in other directions too as uh Diana mentioned at the beginning um we've been doing some work recently to disguise the loading dock and parking by pushing the the plane of those functions back behind the facade um but that's probably a
level of detail we'll get into with subcommittee um uh next slide please um in terms of the materiality of the project um the strategy is to um treat each of the volumes with a slightly different uh color and tone but a compatible color and tone um both for the upper facade materials and the base um uh and and the references for that really are uh buildings in the context
um uh to create a kind of contextual Street Edge which really ends the urban fabric of the fabric uh the urban fabric of the project along East First Street before it opens up where the dog park and the Tommy Butler Park are um and then a a view um from um what I call the M Street Park the the Memorial Park looking uh into the project and the way that the rotation of are building block a Block B and and block E Beyond kind of perform uh from a kind of perspectival standpoint
so I think with that I'm G to turn it over to Block B thanks Tim my name is Jason King an architect and principal at a street and our team is developing the design for the Residential Building at Block B so we go to the next slide we have a few diagrams on screen that will outline um how we've worked to sculpt and shape these zoning envelope approved at the master plan phase beginning with the top left diagram we began by looking for ways to carve
the zoning volume to improve Sidelines and enhance those connections from the neighborhood into the 776 development uh which is an important point of interest that we heard from the community during the phase one discussions so moving to the image in the upper right uh the northeast corner of the zoning volume is bent in and away from the Thomas Edison way intersection opening views from the neighborhood deeper into the site and exposing the historic 1898 building this bending of the residential bar also serves to angle the residential units
away from the adjacent blocks creating some more open space between the buildings opening up additional views to the sky for the public as well as longer view corridors for the residents moving to the bottom right diagram this pulling away from the corner also allowed us to expand the overall public Realm by creating a new public open space at this northeast corner uh and again enhan that intersection where blocks A and B and E come together this new open space Works
in concert with the block a uh entry space that Tim just spoke of to expand the community's overall uh Network connecting the neighborhood from the Metal of Honor Park uh on the bottom of the image to the Edison Plaza and Waterfront prominade Beyond uh and finally moving to that bottom left diagram the massing at the ground plane um is strategically lifted uh up in various locations around the site to enhance the public realm around the building at the corner of Thomas Edison way in East First Street the Ming is held down to Anchor the building and
the corner retail space in a style consistent with other Corner retail examples in the South Boston neighborhood and along East First Street the massing is pulled up with a portion of the ground floor stepping in to preserve open sight lines to turbine Hall 3 and to align with its public pedestrian arcade that connects to Summer Street this also creates an inviting porch space and pedestrian scaled element that extends the retail use to the exterior and activates the streetcape along the sidewalk that faces
the neighborhood and Along Thomas Edison way the building lifts up and steps inward again at the residential Lobby signifying entry and further opening sight lines to the new Corner open space block e and 1898 building Beyond next slide please and so here on screen now is the ground floor plan where you can see how the massing decisions at the ground plane begin to work in concert with the design of the public realm and the adjacent block designs as well with regard to program active uses are
located along the major public Street fronts with retail space shown in red fronting East Fur Street and activating the sidewalk experience across from the neighborhood the residential Lobby shaded in yellow faces Thomas Edison way to the East and is located across from the Block a entry to reinforce that Lively and active Street front uh facing Thomas Edison way moving to the northeast corner an active interior and exterior amenity space is shown in Orange that'll front the new public open space we mentioned earlier
and in plan you can see how this carving away of this corner does open up views from Metal of Honor park into the site and the 1898 building as mentioned before and responds to the public open space designs fronting block a e and f to help tie this area into a cohesive design the buildings loading dock back of house and MEP spaces are all located along the west facade facing turbine Hall 3 which also has its loading back ofal and MEP spaces facing this
alley which keeps these similar uses adjacent to each other and insulated from the more public facing facades as a result this space between Block B and T3 will be specifically designed to minimize Public Access allowing primarily for the Block B and T3 bike parking access points uh and to help emphasize turbine alley which is located between Block C and turbine Halls as the active highquality pedestrian space that will connect the South Boston Neighborhood to the Waterfront next slide please uh
we're early in concept design and as we've begun developing the architecture we've taken inspiration from the site's uh Rich history within the South Boston Neighborhood where the massing moves discussed previously aimed to bring the community into the site the architectural design is aiming to bring some of that s's history out to the community bringing elements derived from the intricate systems of grids and patterns found in the turbine Halls interior architecture and Machinery out to the facade expression we're exploring materials with Rich warm color tones such
as masonry and metal panel that can complement the neighborhood aesthetic and are inspired by some of the finer masonry details found in the South Boston neighborhood with that I'll pass it over to Victor and the block SE team thanks Jason and good evening I'm Victor Pacha architect and design director at gendler and we're pleased to continue our Block C conversation with which we began last November uh next slide please this is a series of
diagrams that illustrates the massing evolution from the zoning envelope which you see in the frame in the upper left and that's the envelope that that that you had seen um last fall when we were talking about land use through a series of diagrams the building evolves using a strategy of folding and vertical slots to both subdivide the mass as well as address specific Urban conditions uh
with each one of the folds the folds are all moving inward or away from the sight setbacks um to further mitigate the mass um in Upper portions of the building and along the pedestrian realm to create uh broader wider areas of pedestrian experience and the potential for indoor outdoor relationships um other drivers uh for some of the folding include the screening of loading and service areas
um to make those more discreet next slide please in the ground floor plan we begin to see how some of the folds and inflections um address the public realm along Summer Street the building facade folds inward in order to create a linear Park we are collaborating with Colin and the field operations team on combinations of greencape and paved area
um to activ activate that linear Park and also provide areas for spill out from for retail food and beverage and so forth the lobby is centrally located um along the Summer Street facade it's proximate to the bus stop um off of Summer Street which you see Kate wanding over there and then located within the green Al Cove that you see directly north of the lobby is a blue bike station North of the lobby the
retail area shown in pink projects further north um closer to Thomas Edison way that serves to screen and mask the loading area directly to the east of it um up on the plan and as you'll see in the three-dimensional renderings in concert with block D helps to frame and create a portal or a threshold as one enters the site the retail to the right of the lobby along the South wraps
from Summer Street all the way along East First Street and into turban alley the facade along East First Street also folds uh back and away from the building setback line at the two primary Corners at the Summer Street and East First Street Corner it is meant to ease the flow around the corner and also presents an opport opportunity for indooroutdoor relationships or public art the
uh fold at the southeast Corner um similarly provides opportunity for indoor outdoor programming and perhaps more in importantly pulls away to allow ample View and access into the arcade that will be created along East First Street through turban Hall 3 then in the blue gray tone are some of the necessary back of house and support areas for research and development programming next slide please um our
early exterior concepts are exploring a punched opening vocabulary at various proportions and rhythms that are found in the industrial typologies throughout South Boston we are exploring a tripartite organization of the facade with a base middle and top um that recalls some of the histor industrial lofts in the Fort Point um neighborhood and we're also exploring the distinct
the material distinctions of a darker base a lighter top as other teams have suggested materials are inspired by the South Boston context including um masonry metals and perhaps pre-cast concrete the image in the upper uh left is taken from the intersection of East first and Summer Street as if we're standing in front of the Murphy's Law um restaurant um in this one
looking along East First Street uh towards the east it's a little bit distant but you can see the facade folding away and an ample view into the arcade that will pass through the historic turban Hall 3 the lower Mass along East First Street um is capped at 72 ft we're just a little bit low lower than that um to be harmonious and sensitive to the street wall and not exceed the height of of
turban Hall three the upper Mass um we can see the fold or the inflection point along Summer Street which we believe mitigates the length of that wall and then there's a vertical glassy slot at Each corner which subdivides what would be one volume into a series of four wrapping planes the rendering on the upper right hand side is taken from um today's elen Street and Summer Street
intersection looking East where the new Thomas Edison way will be constructed this is the moment where the four-story projecting mass of Block C aligns with a recessed opening on block D and together creates this threshold that welcomes arrival into the site and just as importantly screens the loading that that's tucked in behind that four-story mass and makes the portal through the
turban Hall um highly visible and that I'll pass it to Devin and block e thank you very much uh my name is Devon Patterson I'm a principal at SCB and I'm leading the our team is leading the uh the design of the integrated building between the residential hotel and the existing 1898 building next slide please um as we started to look at the design of this Tower which sits in
the center of the development um right between block FB and D there and also between the 19 1898 building U the original starting point for this was more of a ma a mass that was rectangular in shape that paralleled um what's called Edison Plaza right now um we do want to separate uh the 1898 building from the the new building that we're proposing on the site and we're doing that with that sort of blue buffer uh that you see between the two towers there
or two buildings um and so part of the reason for that is we're looking to preserve some of the existing relics inside the building uh this is a fantastic historic structure and we want to expose those sort of hidden histories uh of the 1898 building as we develop the design of this project um as you looked at the uh at the massings on the number two massings there we looked at at um taking that rectangular shape and actually angling uh the facade angling the building itself um this had two
uh benefits for the project first was to open up the uh the open space on the ground floor and respond to block B's open space that they're developing in front of their Plaza there as well so it does provide additional open space for the whole development um it also allows the views uh to be sort of angled away from block F and look towards the uh the the neighborhoods both to the North and the South Boston there um it also allows us to continue to have that buffer between our building and the 1898
building and as you mentioned earlier uh one of the you know the key things we want to think about is the relationship of the ground plane uh to these buildings and so in uh in diagram three there we're talking about how we're doing that in two different ways uh the ground plane as it faces towards Thomas Edison way uh takes a nod from the 1898 building so the SC SC of those two are sort of aligned at that location right there um and then as you look at the building as it faces towards Edison Plaza
um we've taken cues From the Block F building that's across the street there so uh this building actually has three different datums that are being implied uh onto it that help to uh sort of organize the public realm of this project um and then as as uh mentioned earlier we really need to have a defined entry uh to this building and so what we've done is actually set set back the ground floor plan of this building um to create a covered uh vehicular and pedestrian drop off um at the front
door there and we'll see those in some elevation perspective here in a minute next slide please so just walking around through the the uh the entire ground plane here uh this building does up front on three different sides here so uh on the left hand side which is to the north is the the the Waterfront prominant um you'll see the 18 1998 building uh We've started to think about events Hotel event space inside that building that would front onto that Plaza uh to
the north there uh potentially having uh Windows into it that would allow um a a bom space in there to get natural light into it um and there's also other meeting spaces being proposed inside there to activate the Waterfront uh to continue to activate the Waterfront the hotel lobby um and the existing Smoke Stack which is in the center there uh will look out onto uh the plaza to the west or to the north there U and as well as potential uh active active uses like restaurants or things like that or bars
that are associated with the hotel lobby could uh spill out onto that space as well and have great views of the Waterfront and backwards Boston as well um and then looking out that that also looks out onto the Edison Plaza as well as well as the residential Lobby which we've located in the upper uh upper right hand corner there as well um we did want to different at the residential Lobby from the hotel lobby uh so there is a bit of a gap between those two and you'll see that we've really focused
on developing a residential and hotel drop off that really creates a um a safe uh passage for bicycles and pedestrians um by the site and into uh the drop off area there so the idea is to bring cars in off of the street uh have them progress down to the common loading area at the bottom of the page here and enter into the loading um area or the parking area to the left and then exit out onto Thomas and Ed way which is part of
the uh switch switch house ENT or loading entrance loading area as well we think that really helps to create a very sort of um distinguished entrance to the building it also gets all the traffic off of the streets so that it's not um it's not creating bottlenecks of traffic as you're going by the by the site here as well next slide please as part of uh our design inspiration uh we were very uh intrigued with the the
history of the um 1898 building and you know this building has been closed off for many many years from the public and so we want to expose those hidden histories as we U as we do our uh work to design the interior of this building and some of the images at the top there are some of the photographs of the existing turbine that's on the right hand side that's inside the building um you can also see as you look up there's a beautiful clay tile roof with some steel structure in there there's lots of all
the all the walls are um are glazed tile um so you've get this beautiful sort of white material on the inside so a lot of those materials we want to expose as we develop the design but the thing we were most interested in as we started to think about the design of the tower was the rotor that sat inside those uh those casings of the inter of the turbines the right there and we looked at that as sort of our inspiration and so the blades and things like that that are inside there as an opportunity to sort of think about how
we might use sort of the U the Innovative uh design of this turbine that really powered up Austin for many years and use that as sort of an Innovative Beacon for the this project at the center of the site here and so we've got a couple of different architectural um ideas that we're uh we're current currently working on here there's one in the upper left hand corner and one in the lower right hand corner they're both design schemes that were sort of at the initial stages of our design thinking for this project uh but
the idea is to uh create a base uh that responds both to the 1898 building and black F to the right there so you can see s of those braks that are happening in the building those brakes might actually go up into the building to El further distinguish it um but the idea is to create sort of this verticality and differentiate uh the tower materiality from the base materiality uh to create a very you know symbolic or icon BL neighborhood so I think we I I think that wraps up what we're thinking about here and we happy
to talk about uh whatever questions you may have about our designs all right you that's a lot of stuff it's a lot and I want to say I want to say how much I appreciate such a well choreographed yeah presentation there were a lot of speaking voices and um it was clear that you guys all organized ahead of time so we really appreciate that so Commissioners
we are looking at um kind of an ADB review of four different sites a b c and then e and there's um you know High likelihood that we are going to be splitting this up and looking at different sites and different issues and challenges in subcommittee and so um what I'd like to do is open the floor
to to comments from each of you and then I'd like to come back together and create a plan for how we might review these in a in a way that makes the most sense and gives us time at each of the other subcommittees um should we vote it through and so oh and Lizzie I do see that we have um a public comment do you want to just talk about the fact that we'll take Commissioners first yeah of course um we'll take Commissioners first and
then join over to um public comment um once those commissioner comments are done thank you so Commissioners if you have a comment um please raise your hand and if your hand isn't working you can wave it wildly and I will look for you David I see David hin I see your hand up oh the first okay you are the first oh dear okay um first of all I just want to say I thought this was a really excellent presentation um very you've covered a
lot of ground and um and I it's really exciting to see how the design is evolved and to see the obvious coordination between planning and the slides that we saw at the beginning of the presentation and how those were effectuated in the design and in general I think there's a lot to like here I I think that um um the the the design principles are are are really clear and um
and I I I I feel like the public realm um concepts are also very clear I I guess I just have a couple of questions um and I don't know how we're going to split this up when we review it but I have a couple of questions that maybe can be answered uh you know at some point one of them has to do with with the programming of the ground plane and it it seems to me that there
was a um there's been a strategy to activate the perimeter of the development with retail uh along uh First Street and um I can't what letter the one that's going to the other direction but um around basically around the perimeter from the the lab the the again are building all the way around and then um the thank you um uh Summer Street thank you um yeah
so to basically create retail along Block C um I think the ideas about stepping back to sort of reveal the turban Hall at Block C and B seems really thoughtful and smart um there's uh clearly retail on the corner of Block B and block a that again fronts East First Street and then there's this really dynamic Center um where a b e f and and all
of that are facing and it's interesting to me that the it appears that it's all residential lobbies and residential amenities that are facing that space and I guess I'd like to understand a little bit more about what the concept is for for how public that space is um and what the character of that space is Rel relative to um the activation of the streets it's you know personally when I think about
where a restaurant you know could or should be or retail could or should be I think I would want to migrate to the heart of this project where there's you know trees and green space and space and more proximity to the water not necessarily on First Street which you know is not a street that has a strong retail identity at least not at this point in time um and so that's just something I would like to understand because it looks like it's a a strategic decision and yet there is a hotel um at
the at the middle of the of the project which feels like it would be a very public um place to go for you know food and beverage and all the rest of it so that's a question for the team that maybe we can come back to um the other thing that I would say is that I think that the um the architectures for Block C B and a that has initially been shown all looks very handsome very very
clean thoughtful handsome um relatively quiet um uh relative to uh the the context and the neighborhood and and I understand that and actually very much appreciate it um it does put a lot of pressure in my mind on block e as a signature element as a tower that you see from from distances and even the views that we saw um where I I think the
teams from Arrow Street and util were explaining the The View Corridor that is being established to look back at the tower um that's a very powerful that thank you the upper right um that's a very powerful image and I when um uh when the block ebuilding was described with the turban and so forth I really love that idea I love the image of it um and the
the the way you're thinking about the building both in terms of it separating from the historic building but also become being a you know distinctive shape and marker but I do wonder if it needs to be even more exuberant um architecturally um certainly at the top of the building um relative to this very important position that it played as an anchor um uh in the rest of the development like the the notion that
the buildings along East first are handsome quiet buildings that are deferring to the the detail and the prominence of the turban Hall um makes a lot of sense to me um but I do crave a um uh I don't know what the right word is but um uh prominence contemporary architectural statement U at the center of the development that can be seen from afar and one of my requests would be
um if we could uh this view is very important but like what does this building look like you know from um the seport or from uh Beyond like what what does this marker look like on the skyline um and how do I know like where I'm going you know essentially to get to this development so those are just two thought thoughts that maybe we could take a look at uh together at the at the right moment thank you but very very nice project a lot
of very very good decisions here David thank you shaa thank thanks Linda thank you to all for the presentation it's extremely exciting project um and could we may go to the plan the page 29 I think that might be most helpful so um General I actually love this idea of kind of cracking the middle open where we're where the edges are generally following
an orthagonal strategy and in the middle it kind of cacks open to um to give space or it feels like it to give space to the public realm and and that I I very much much appreciate um one area that you had mentioned as a significant element of the public realm that I think may need thinking more about is is turbine alley and I was that that struck me most in the Block C presentation when there's
a grade difference between the alley itself and the retail and then the service of the blue is really directly fronting onto that that alley so for that alley I actually would would really like to understand overall um what you know the the specific character of the public Realms and the paracity of the pieces with respect to the the inside outside interface and that that really comes
to the biggest question for me and what I would like to understand more holistically and specifically um within the project from the public realm is the elevation change and the grade change between the the public programs and the sidewalk I can see a few places where there's a few stairs um and I don't know what what the sort of base elevation that that's being
used for the ground plane but in many other projects in the seport we're dealing with four or five feet of of grade difference so trying to understand that on a global project with respect to the overall project is there ways that you're achieving that um by elevating the roadways as well or is it specific to the building or to the super block areas and then then I'd like to know from from a sectional perspective when we start looking at each of these buildings what that relationship is to to
the street um and you know and and the ground plane because it it can be pretty significantly different um and we you know we want to make sure that to enhance the vibrancy so that's really my big ask for when when the projects come back to subcommittee is to understand that grade relationship between programs um as well as you know continuing to work on um the challenges of you know some of these big service areas which
I understand are required for the program but how does that um impact the public realm experience I need a oh okay I'm sorry sorry I realized 6:30 I turned my um was that so terrible I had turned my video off I apologize I didn't mean to do that no problem shaa we could hear
you clearly all right thank you David manf Freddy thanks Linda um I'm gonna echo my my fellow Commissioners this is a really good presentation and um both in its both in its um Graphics but also in your in your um um delivery uh meaning that the the parts um the way you put it together you obviously spent a great deal of time as someone said coordinating uh and I thought it was
all very thoughtful I I have I'm wondering about a couple of things and I'm not really challenging as much is I'm looking when you come to subcommittee to to talk about these um and here's the most philosophical one which is that the historic buildings the the U buildings of the of Boston Anderson um are are very regular very um orthagonal um
pieces that have all everything to do with what what occurred inside them and then we saw buildings um B and F and um they varied uh a little bit from that but we're also quite um Regular in their footprint and when I mean by that is observing the um the the block structure and um Street walls and their relationship to block structure but varied
a little bit more than than the very simple floor plans and now there's four buildings and um each have adopted a a different in different ways um a a a a attitude about the ground plane and different in different buildings but also about the massing in which there's some challenge to the regularity of the
urban grid and I see it specifically on First and um and you it it it feels very thank you it feels very deliberate but I but I don't know if it is or not and I'm wondering if it is and I'm wondering how you all thought about that together or SE separately um or came to what seems like similar conclusions together or separately and
what I'm what I'm wondering is um is all of the the the the subtle and quite handsome by the way building by building but all of the subtle shifting of planes off of First Street uh and off of Summer Street um um I I how coordinated are they are they the right thing to do is there a is
there an exterior Edge in an interior formed by very regular streets summer in first and an interior geometry it could be quite irregular based on the irregularity of of um the what's it called the Oh Thomas Edison way and I I mostly want to hear I'm not I'm not suggesting anything except that um I would love to hear you talk about that whether it's the four teams in in
uh together or or however we decide to whether it goes separately um I I would I I this is a very important drawing and and I think that um the point earlier points that were made are really really good I I really want to understand um the at the ground floor I think it was David who talked specifically about the retail and whether it's on the perimeter or it it
um it draws together in that space where Thomas Edison and yes Thomas Edison W and Thomas Edison way intersect I didn't real say the same um and whether that's the that's the center or is there a perimeter strategy in the center strategy or or I I'd like to hear you talk about that this would be by the way really important project to see in a model and makes me yearn ever more
for models and and uh and collocation and then my last my last question is specific about block e and it is the relationship of this kind of driveway and drop off to the street and I think about this always um on Atlantic Avenue where you have um the Intercontinental Hotel and the Boston Harbor Rose Warf buildings
and in in in Boston Harbor Hotel where the drop off um crosses the sidewalk crosses the the public realm and comes close to the building and if that is a strategy that has been successful there and if that's a strategy that's um um the right thing here because it does bring the vehicle um across the public realm and
into what seems like a much more pedestrian environment and I would like to hear more about that and I I do challenge in this case I do challenge whether that's the right thing to do in terms of drop off streetscaping pedestrians I but I have to say in when we look at each in when I look at each individual building I think you've real all done really good work here uh
and this this is a wonderful project I I see it I see the site every day from the back of the building we're in uh and so I will watch it all evolve thank you thanks David Kathy bill or mck young any comments bill looks like you're on mute maybe we could talk about
how we're going to parse this project out because I feel like it has a big impact on Boston and I think it's important to do this carefully um I I'm not going to repeat what fellow Commissioners said I think there's a lot of really good comments that came out of this and I just um I think this is one project where we shouldn't separate out landscape from the architecture and um so I'm I'm a
little bit at a loss uh how to structure the review of this but I have found I'm grateful that today we don't have any other uh projects to review and I just wonder I could see like one night where you just review this but I think my brain would work better if they were seen as like three maybe all projects are all three projects are seen individually with their contiguous landscape and then at the end you see them all together or
vice versa or something like that as a kind of I don't know um as a way instead of breaking it up over days or sometimes we break up these larger projects by ground floor public realm but for me it feels like you want to kind of see them you want to be able to see it from all together and then you want to see it individually a little bit more um so just thought I'd open up that discussion um because I think all of the
comments will Contin will delve a little bit deeper as we move forward um thank you mcky young I just um Bill I know that you were muted while you were talking as well do you want to chime in and then we can switch gears to the organization thank you you can hear me now yes trouble raising my hand I don't I can't find the hand raising um element but I'll by next week I'll
find it um so Bill it's changed if you actually hit if you actually click on the heart that says react instead of pulling on the carrot if you pull on the carrot you can't find it but if you actually click on the heart that's right above react it'll let you raise your hand I had to find out the hard way as well okay but where is he yeah anyway you have the floor what I said anyway you have you have the floor okay well then I may get
one of you Linda to tell me how I don't to bother everyone with my in um um so I will speak and then learn how to um raise my hand um I want to really Echo what David was talking about uh um I will say that I have long really appreciated this project I have the sense that the development team uh is
very thoughtful and gives a level of freedom to The Architects to uh engage in very good design Explorations and so I was always very happy with the project one and two years ago uh and uh uh you know I still uh the is the issue that David was Raising however is a really important
one because what's happened is yes the historic buildings are orthogonal to the street grid but all the other buildings are now um not orthogonal purposely so and each of you explained why you were opening up views and all of that but the result is that it's not as powerful um a composition of those nonorthogonal elements and yes the hotel Tower
may be very nice but the others all have these chipped away edges which also for the open space around them create a a a large number of wedge shaped Open Spaces which I don't know if they're that inhabitable and um so while I agree with David that there's a lot of quality of what we've been seeing I'm a little nervous about the overall idea that you
all must have discussed together um of uh breaking up the shaping of the non-historic buildings and uh I would love to have one session uh uh uh in the committee meetings really devoted to this question uh and if we don't it'll be left out until the very end and uh so um
I would just uh want to understand how the composition of a series of non orthogonal shaped buildings is going to lead to something that's memorable and and and architecturally powerful thank you Bill I I wonder oh I don't know if anyone else is I was going to speak to the how we might review it but maybe there
are other Commissioners who want to speak oh David pardon me for interrupting the one thing D David man Fredy alluded to that I think is very important can't on this uh kind of massing level we have a model that we can really understand what we're talking about here uh it just seems it seems to be crying out for that because otherwise all we're doing is looking at uh site
plans and not really understanding their relationship to one another so that would be a strong verging I made I'm sorry David has night no no not at all I mean I think it actually plays into the OR sorry David um or Bill what if it were like a walkthrough that gave us a 3D walkr where we could um there was some flexibility to because I feel like a physical model is helpful but hard to
see through Zoom um yes so maybe there could be a walkthr where I know designers hate this but we could say like take me to the left take me to the right and things like that uh within reason we know this is a big project so anyways David Hassen I know you want no I was just gonna say that uh young relative to your comment about how we review this after listening to David and Bill um uh it it it makes me
think that this issue of the larger massing strategy the grain of the buildings the overall and that impact on the ground plane is a meeting um that involves everyone before there might be um you know or before there is a sort of let's say secondary meeting or another meeting to get into the let's say nitty-gritty of the landscape or the nitty-gritty of the architecture um and and and I
it feels to me like that first discussion um is probably its own discussion um and then that sets up a me uh sets up maybe you know um I'm just making suggestion here sets up two uh two groups let's say to review architectural detailing and Landscape detailing perhaps another um thought I do think that a lot of comments were around this notion of Urban Design form um whether you know how
how buildings and Landscape occupy this site so I do think that would be a really good first meeting um I you know three of these buildings are adjacent to one another ab and their open space I think would be difficult to um look at if it weren't compositionally so that might be an idea um of looking at a and e and I like the idea too
that we might have even a double session to look at the kind of buildings in open space in a way that we would be able to dive in a little bit um longer and not kind of have an artificial break when the hour was up yeah so if if meeting one is Urban Design form and meeting two that might be a double block allowed us to go through the different compositional pieces I think that could be really effective uh one of the other
comments I was going to add in the commissioner comments was the fact that I think also that the the corridors are really key and understanding how you'll experience Summer Street and how you'll experience East First Street and then how Thomas Edison way you know first it runs kind of you know west to east and then it turns 90° and actually becomes one of the gateways to the site
I think it would be really important to understand how that street operates as a strong Urban Design presence and also how one knows that you have to make that turn because the extension becomes service drive and doesn't and does and kind of terminates in an odd way so I think it would be important for us to understand that street structure and the visual cues that have you actually make that turn um South Along Thomas Edison
way that then connects to M Street I think would be important how do you how do you all feel about that I think that makes sense sorry I think that makes sense um I I think both what you and David are saying makes sense I'd like to talk about Personnel a little bit um we don't have a full house today Linda and um and I'm just wondering uh if there and we usually
don't do this but we choreograph it so that there's a core consistent team reviewing this project um and I don't know if if that's possible so that there is there's a Clarity to the project now and I want to make sure that that the opponent doesn't um kind of come back and see lots of different people get different advice it's a complex project and I I worry that a complex group of voices could
confuse the process so it might be I'm not I don't think I have the BR bandwidth tonight to like figure it out but that that's a concern I have as well is to make sure that that there's at least consistent um Personnel yeah I think it's a great it's a great comment and um I don't know if you all have noticed but it's been one of our goals over the last year so you'll notice that we have been trying
to have the same um Commissioners on a project throughout subcommittee it's not perfect because we're all all have other commitments as well but that has been an Earnest goal and so I think we'll continue that for this project and if we're able to get a double Block in a subcommittee which again I think would be would be really helpful so that we can continue the conversation um we'll try to keep that same or there because I imagine that we won't have the luxury we have tonight in the future and is
this does this project warrant a special day or something like that um just make sure this doesn't go at the end of the evening you know I think Linda and Mimi um sorry M these are uh really helpful comments I also think that the comments we got from Bill and from David around the sort of physicality of understanding the scale of this project are really important that the same questions we've been asking um we often make
physical models available to Commissioners to come and view here at City Hall so that's something that will stand true for this project um and um as Linda mentioned we'll be working at a staff level to ensure the consistency in the review of this project as it moves forward um and and specifically you know how we think through um how we want to go about um either you know the 3D view or the double subcommittee slot um and supplementing that with any sort of
physical model elements um as needed so I think uh we really appreciate those comments and Linda before we fully deliberate I want to make sure we make space for a public comment yes and Lizzie just uh noted that we've come to the end of our 25 minute comment period which kudos to the Commissioners we did beautifully and got got all all the voices in so um so we will kind of make a proposal and work with Diana and Christina on how
we can review this project and we'll um we'll discuss about the vote for subcommittee in just a moment but with that Lizzie Do we have any public comment I'm GNA go ahead and make a uh quick announcement here um so at this time we'd like to invite any members of the public in attendance who may wish to contribute to public testimony to raise your digital hand and staff will call on you if you're calling in by phone press
star9 on your dial pad to activate the raise can function and star six to mute and unmute yourself please state your name and any relevant project affiliation information and please keep comments to 2 minutes we had a hand earlier ah let's see es uh could you unmute please hello my name is Eileen Smith and
I uh I want to thank the Commissioners tonight for um slowing down the process I am a member of the iag a lifelong resident of South Boston and my address is 776 East Broadway so yes I am very concerned with the um architectural plans of the site I I don't understand why and I think the Commissioners made um a lot of um indications to the
way I feel there's so many different designs of the buildings there's no consistency um the variations and the sizes and the materials they they really don't relate to each other and uh I also uh you know one of the comments by um Mr on the composition will not be memorable he's absolutely right uh it is currently going to be uh what I
call the mini sea port there's no um historical relationship there's no Harmony uh to our Uh current neighborhood which is very alarming and um I do think that we don't need to have industrial exploring Lofts from Fort Point uh considered for design review I think that there's nothing um really relatable from um the SE port for these
uh building designs I am concerned with um the uh building uh the the hotel uh which is build block e to me visually it's a monster um I think that uh it's really problematic as far as the design and for the most part that will uh be the shiny midle building that blocks the uh complete uh residential neighborhood um and
I just have one thing that I would like to say that really isn't relevant to design review but it is so we recently were told that a promise of affordable housing to that location may not happen and so maybe with design review uh the space can be found to secure um affordable housing on site uh which was one of the um uh commitments uh with this project going forward and thank you for your
help tonight I really do think that there are so many outstanding architectural issues and I do appreciate all of the um Commissioners comments tonight so thank you thank you Yas for your comments and let's see I don't see any other hands so and I think that concludes our comment our public comment period thank you Diana we did have a um public comment that was entered into the chat
do we want to read that into the record absolutely I can go ahead and read that and thank you for catching that so Christy Kaza noted in the chat um have to jump off but wanted to comment longtime South Boston resident business owner retail store Front types with an on Summer Street entrance need to takeen need to be taken into consideration people just double Park to go to Duncan on L um street I'm
assuming or PS Gourmet uh on dester and if there's no parking in front of the retail people will just double Park it's a huge issue in South Boston at this time renderings look like no easy parking and a few spots in front of retail oh and I see that there's another hand um Lan could you unmute please good evening can you hear me yes
okay um thank you this is my first time attending a bcdc uh meeting so I'm learning a lot um so thank you for that and um I am commenting on I I guess the the architecture as well um a couple of comments were made that it is um light industrial and trying to fit into the fabric of the neighborhood
so I'm not really sure um which neighborhood it's being looked at uh you can cross East First Street and that is in fact light industrial um new zoning was put into there um and then but on the side where the Edison plant actually is that AB buts up to First Street um that really is residential it's um the part of South Boston where um it's changing on first and second street but we do want our buildings to blend in and
I don't feel as though there are some of the buildings that are very nice and that I like and then there are others that are really far off um I would also like for um your commission to look at the heights of the different buildings particularly along First Street um they want just swap out the buildings as you know and um that is residential but the building materials of metals um with brick you can see an example of
it across the street um it's not attractive and this site is in fact 15 Acres so we want it to fit into the South Boston Neighborhood not necessarily the sea port so we don't want it want it to be overtaken um because it is part of the resid venal neighborhood so I think there's a lot more work to be done here uh I'm not sure why there are so many architectural firms designing individual blocks um but I'm looking forward
to learning more I appreciate the comments um and thank you for the Commissioners to also understand not only the developers uh but also the neighborhood of self lusting thank you thank you so much Lan for your comments um if there are any additional hands um can you please raise them and we can call on you that I don't see any additional hands I think this
can conclude our public comment period thanks Diana thanks for the three public members that shared their testimony tonight Commissioners we have some ideas on how we can proceed um do we have a motion to send this to subcommittee so Mo and a second please second all in favor please say I shaa Gilly Smith
hi mck young Kim hi Kathy kerus hi David manf Freddy hi Bill Ron hi and our two recused members Mimi Love recused and Kirk syes uh recused thank you and myself Linda eastley I we will see you in subcommittee thank you for
a great and thorough presentation thank you Commissioners Linda can you stay on the line to give me a lesson on how to raise my hand in the new sure I can yeah we're gonna um so our we are going as Diana said instead of talking about about article 80 update today we will do that next time and I don't think we have any other business Diana or Lizzy think the motion
is in order all right so would anyone like to make a motion to adjourn the meeting and a second second second and all in favor please say I shaa Gilly Smith hi mck young Kim hi Kathy karitas hi Mimi Love hi David manf Freddy hi Bill Ron hi
Kirk Sykes hi and myself Linda eastley we are adjourned thank you thank you thank you Commissioners thank you you enjoy your night enjoy your early night