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Window drama at the Hancock
By adamg on Wed, 04/29/2009 - 9:52pm
Jen Stewart reports that when she and some coworkers were having dinner at Skipjack's tonight, they noticed Clarendon Street in front of the Hancock tower was being blocked off by police with sawhorses and police tape. Then they looked up and saw what looked like a window-washing platform about two-thirds of the way up. Could it be loose windows?
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linky no worky
One of my co-workers, who works in facilities, was pretty sure it was a loose (or otherwise in need of repair) window.
I'll have to stop by his office tomorrow, to confirm.
Also, the link doesn't work for me.
Link fixed, thanks
Bonus day for mistakes here! I keep misspelling the name of some weekly newspaper, I get the terminus of a commuter-rail line wrong and now I forget to close an HTML tag correctly. Must be the swan flu.
Plywood Palace
http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/BuildingDetail/3...
just in case
and because of that problem, they have people that regularly look at the windows. if a window even looks off they replace it. Maybe this one escaped their eye until it got bad...
How much?
Did anyone ever determine if the building actually sold for $660 million? There was some question about the new owner buying up debt prior to purchasing the building to the tune of $500 million or so which pushed the actual price to about $1.1 billion - anybody ever get the accounting straight on this?
Re: Plywood Palace
click 'em for full size
I used to live across the street from the Hancock Tower
back in the 1980s and I can tell you that windows fell out regularly. People in Boston thought it had stopped, but it hadn't. The only thing that had stopped was the reports in the media about the falling windows.
Washing?
I'm pretty sure that they are just washing the windows.
No, not window washing. I
No, not window washing. I confirmed with facilities at my job - it was a loose window, being replaced.
Like I said - the window washing doesn't happen at night. And they don't bring in cops to close down the street in front of the building to do it. ;-)
Night?
But your photo looks like broad daylight.
(Also, your web site http://jenstewart.com/ seems to have disappeared.)
It was after 7pm when I took
It was after 7pm when I took that photo. It does look light out, but it is dinner time.
And even when it's light later, the window washing on the Hancock usually takes place in the morning or early afternoon, not after work hours.
Re: the blog - I closed it down. It wasn't fun anymore, and life is full of enough things I 'have' to do, without making blogging one of them. ;o)
The (newer) John Hancock Building:
. I, too, thought they'd stopped the problem years ago, but I guess not. While it's a nice idea, something is terribly flawed about the materials, workmanship, the design itself, or of all three of the above.