Culture
What is the Future of Downtown?
One of the best things about great cities is that they adapt and change. Rail yards become new neighborhoods, and industrial districts become lofts, offices, and shopping centers. The ability of the urban fabric to evolve with the rapidly changing ways we live and work is part of the reason people and businesses are returning to the city core. It…
Where Is Retail Going Anyway?
Some say it’s going away. Some say it’s online. Others say it’s changing so fast that it’s impossible to know. While the role retail plays is changing, it remains a critical component of both the real estate industry and our public places. Even if it’s more convenient to buy certain things online, the social act of going downtown (or to…
BisNow: The Future of Downtown
Join us at Bisnow’s Future of Downtown on June 21st. Scott Pollack will join respected voices from Synergy Investments, Related Beal, and Emerson College to discuss Boston’s historic building stock and how it relates to new development occurring in the downtown neighborhood. Register at Bisnow’s site and we’ll see you at the Seaport Aloft Hotel!
Lost and Found Blueprints
Many times when we are doing renovation projects, we are left to our own resources to figure out how the building was designed and built. We were recently across the street from our studio, walking through the basement of one of the buildings at the old Fidelity block, (which will become the new Congress Square project), when we came across some drawings of the buildings…
The Not-So-Financial District
Arrowstreet’s office, and our mixed-use project, Congress Square, lie at the center of a big change that has been happening in Boston’s Financial District. Financial institutions, insurance companies, and law firms have been moving across the bridge into the Seaport, and start-ups and creative firms, like Arrowstreet, are moving into their old buildings. It all began when the Boston Convention…
Recent Design Forum Features Congress Square
Every month or so, Arrowstreet has an office-wide design forum, allowing everyone to learn more about an active project from the team working on it. On a recent Friday our office came together for a pizza lunch and a presentation on Congress Square. Owner Related Beal asked Arrowstreet to develop a master plan and design 350,000 square feet at the…
BisNow: The Future of Downtown
Join Arrowstreet principal, David Bois, as he discusses recent trends in the Downtown Boston real estate landscape at Bisnow’s “Future of Downtown Summit,” on August 18. The event will also feature a keynote address by Larry DiCara of Nixon Peabody and panel discussions on the various forces impacting the evolution of Downtown. David will specifically present the Congress Square development…
Join Us at ULI Boston’s Downtown Discussion
The Boston Market Council has organized an expert panel that will be presenting about the current and future of market in the Downtown/Financial District area. Our client, Steve Faber of Related Beal, will be discussing the future of Congress Square ( the project that’s across the street from our studio that create strong connections from Faneuil Hall to the Financial District).
We’re Taking on New Space
Arrowstreet is expanding our design studio at 10 Post Office Square. We recently signed a lease with Broadway Partners for additional space (now owned by Synergy Investments) directly adjacent to our current studio. The expanded studio will accommodate up to 100 designers and professional staff…
Take 1: Our Studio in the Movies
As a follow-up to my previous blog post, I snapped some photos of the action taking place in our studio over the weekend. You can see how the European movie crew transformed our media space (aka, The Voodoo Lounge) into the protagonist’s private office. The movie, which is set in NYC, is an adaptation of a novel by British writer Katie Fforde titled Blood Brothers and will air on German TV.