Comments on BlogStamford: New South End Buildings

with a project on this scale with so many parts, i...

2010-03-25T16:52:01.576-04:00

with a project on this scale with so many parts, its not uncommon to see some buildings sit seemingly stalled at certain times. especially in the northeast where we have seasons with drastic weather changes. it has to do with the construction schedule and hiring the contractors. rather than have the steel workers come back over and over. they do all the work at once. the purple condos may have been teeming with carpenters inside during the winter, rather than the exterior workers who littered the site in summer and spring. the southern office building as of today had some masonry work going on, looks like maybe a parking structure or more foundation work starting up. don't worry, the project wont stall and isn't slowing down despite lack of visible workers.

The guy above me is right. The office buildings h...

2010-03-15T17:35:38.436-04:00

The guy above me is right. The office buildings haven’t really been touched in some time, probably waiting on a tenant. They are ahead of the hotel planned to frame the remaining side of the square – that hasn’t made it past the foundation yet. The Commons Building, currently purple due to the construction material being used is still actively being worked on. I run past it and see crews there. I thought I read in the Advocate that building would come online before the end of the year.

I Y&T lofts are now leasing. The Advocate wrote the school is pushing ahead and there’s some equipment sitting over there.

there isnt much to be said. work on the office bu...

2010-03-09T14:54:28.045-05:00

there isnt much to be said. work on the office buildings will be restarted when a tenant is identified.

i think you'll see work continue on the purple residential building very slowly through 2010 when the aim of bringing the building online in late 2011. in the mean time, it clear (based on the harborpt.com website) that the yale and locke residential buildings will hit the market first. ideally those units will be absorbed starting in the fall of 2010 with the purple building in the fall of 2011.

some of this is my guess, some of this is from what i have read.

I think there should be a post about the frozen co...

2010-03-09T13:20:42.038-05:00

I think there should be a post about the frozen construction going on at Harbor Gateway at Atlantic Street & Washington Blvd. There is a purple 15-story high-rise going up and two mid-rise office buildings. It seems that no work has gone up for months, certainly with those office buildings. And that purple tower is a hideous shell of a building. South End fail.

JT, do you have any details on the new charter sch...

2010-03-08T22:14:44.593-05:00

JT, do you have any details on the new charter school. I think the charter school could have an appreciable positive impact for the balance of Harbor Pt.

As for the 25 units at Gateway, it will be interesting to see if they still plan to fold in the remaining 175 units into the site and if so, how.

If the residential is going to line Pulaski St tho...

2010-03-08T12:04:13.585-05:00

If the residential is going to line Pulaski St though - there may be a footprint issue. There are two property holdouts over there.

From a micro level it might not make sense for the reasons you stated - but from a macro level i think Harbor Pt needed to get some smaller easier to fill buildings up in the early phases, especially if they are priced below luxury. The larger, more ambitious parcels will be easier to fill if there if they can start to establish the neighborhood - get a base of people to attract retail and other tenants later. Focusing on an affordable strategy across a range income levels can counter concerns about gentrification and also attract young people.

a 25 unit first phase rental building strikes me a...

2010-03-08T11:46:58.862-05:00

a 25 unit first phase rental building strikes me as an odd size. its difficult to get good economies of scale both from a constructiona and moreover, operationally on such a small building.

looks great! the idea of making stamford train sta...

2010-03-07T21:15:18.433-05:00

looks great! the idea of making stamford train station central to stamford makes sense if we are aiming for a less car centric city. i would like to see light rail added and/or even an additional train station that links stamford to the south side.