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Another mishap at tower under construction at South Station: Construction material erupts in flames

By adamg on Tue, 04/09/2024 - 9:56am
Smoke from flaming construction material

Photo by Lora Power Estey.

The Boston Fire Department reports construction material on an outside deck of the ninth floor of the 51-story South Station Tower caught fire this morning.

No injuries to report. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.

Last month, a steel beam fell 20 stories, slamming into a window, but not causing any injuries.

Neighborhoods: 
Downtown
Topics: 
Development
Fire
Free tagging: 
South Station


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Comments

By John Costello on Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:32am.

Wearing a "Safety First" t-shirt?

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By Lee on Tue, 04/09/2024 - 11:08am.

Smoking is prohibited on construction sights yet workers frequently ignore it.

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By Lee on Tue, 04/09/2024 - 11:09am.

… a mistake in so many ways.

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By HenryAlan 2.0 on Tue, 04/09/2024 - 11:43am.

Workplace accidents happen in construction, nobody has been hurt, so far as we know. And the building is going to look amazing. But the biggest win in all of this is the fantastic bus depot expansion that was required of the developer.

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By Friartuck on Tue, 04/09/2024 - 11:46am.

The new State Street building had similar issues including a fire if I recall correctly

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By Lee on Tue, 04/09/2024 - 11:58am.

…. stupefyingly….ugly. Another lugubrious looming eyesore and major pollutant affecting the Leather District and Chinatown and all surrounding neighborhoods. A hazard to migrating endangered species and an architectural disgrace.
It will provide the piddling minimal number of affordable units required and probably require those residents use a separate entrance, if not an entirely different building in a terrible location. It will worsen traffic problems and increase air pollution. It will further darken already crowded shadowed streets. Bus depots have no need for this height.
But I’m sure it brings glee to unscrupulous developers and investors with questionable motives.
If it’s so great, why not build it in the Back Bay?

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By fungwah on Tue, 04/09/2024 - 2:42pm.

If it’s so great, why not build it in the Back Bay?

You could have started with this so we could all realize more quickly that your whole argument could be summarized in five words:

Not In My Back Yard

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By Lee on Tue, 04/09/2024 - 4:57pm.

… in this case.

Chinatown has for decades been the dumping ground for all sorts of questionable projects. From the Combat Zone to New England Medical to gentrification. This giant piece of glitz stabbing South Station is just more abuse of an underprivileged minority by the privileged and entitled.

Shame on all who enable this environmental and aesthetic disaster.

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By John Costello on Tue, 04/09/2024 - 5:59pm.

Also has way more housing. Way more and more is under construction.

Also, If you look at the names of the landlords selling places and possibly displacing "an underprivileged minority" for gentrification, a lot of them match up with names a lot more common in a Fujian phone book than one in Crawley or Kilkenny.

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By Lee on Tue, 04/09/2024 - 9:09pm.

Also irrelevant on your second and possibly incorrect too.

What is your fixation on Irish blah blah blah all about anyway? Nobody even brought them up. Except you.

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By fungwah on Wed, 04/10/2024 - 10:22am.

Complaining about environmentalism and aesthetics is pretty silly when you're at the same time suggesting that it would be ok if it were built outside of your own backyard. Why not just acknowledge that you're the one adopting the trite and overused complaint of "this project is uniquely bad because it affects me personally"?

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By Lee on Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:02am.

… build that monstrosity in Back Bay, you misunderstood me. It was a rhetorical statement. My point was that the BRA or whatever it goes by these days and developers have long gotten away with abuse of low income neighborhoods because they don’t have the resources to defend themselves.
Most of the residents of Back Back do have the resources.

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By HenryAlan 2.0 on Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:10am.

And your talking points are more stale than I've seen around here in a while. Reactionary NIMBYism isn't a good look.

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By Lee on Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:20am.

But it and fuel exhaust from South Station are cited as two of the major causes of air pollution in Chinatown. Which already has the worst air pollution in a residential area in all of Massachusetts.
The construction is already contributing to noise pollution in Chinatown and all surrounding neighborhoods.

Have you ever actually been to Boston?

You sound like an online shill for the developers.

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By Daan on Tue, 04/09/2024 - 5:45pm.

Isn't that great? The city always needs more park space. Okay, it's a private park. And the building will look like a big middle finger to all of downtown. But it still will have a park!

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By Lee on Tue, 04/09/2024 - 8:49pm.

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By Jumbo on Tue, 04/09/2024 - 12:17pm.

They have just shut down the construction at south station for further investigation.

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By Lee on Tue, 04/09/2024 - 5:18pm.

… for the last problem where steel beams fell.

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By anon on Tue, 04/09/2024 - 1:10pm.

Not that anyone bothers to enforce the law.

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