Fort Point Channel Landmarks October 2016 Meeting

updated 10.6.16 with revised agenda. Please note addition of 300 Summer and time changes. 

The FORT POINT CHANNEL LANDMARK DISTRICT COMMISSION will hold a public hearing:

Thursday, 13 October 2016

5:30 PM

Boston City Hall – Piemonte Room (5th Floor)

After 5:30 pm, enter and exit City Hall at the Dock Square entrance on Congress Street

(across from Faneuil Hall).

Subject of the hearing will be applications for Certificates of Design Approval on the agenda below, review of architectural violations and such business as may come before the commission, in accordance with Ch. 772 of the Acts of 1975, as amended.

I. DESIGN REVIEW HEARING

5:30 PM                  
17.381 FPC:  347 Congress Street
Applicant: Thomas Trykowski, Silverman Trykowski Associates (Applicant)
Proposed Work: Remove and replace three canvas banner signs on the existing armature fronting Congress Street.

5:45 PM Continuance from 9/2016
17.245 FPC:  9 Channel Center Street
Applicant: Dan McGrath, Berkeley Investments, Inc.(Applicant)
Proposed Work: Install two light fixtures adjacent to the entryway; install tenant signage on the left side and building signage on the right side of the entryway.

6:00 PM Previously presented 4/2016
16.1274 FPC:  24 Farnsworth Street
Applicant: Rev. Harlan Limpert, Unitarian Universalist Association (Applicant)
Proposed Work: Install signage on Farnsworth Street façade.

6:15 PM
17.390 FPC 300 Summer Street
Applicant: Susan Knack-Brown, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger (Architect)
Proposed Work: Install metal cladding at the fourth through seventh floors on the secondary north façade.

6:30 PM 
17.391 FPC 300 Summer Street
Applicant: Susan Knack-Brown, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger (Architect)
Proposed Work: Construct a mechanical penthouse; replace window perimeter sealants in-kind; replace deteriorated metal shutter pintles with painted brick; clean and repoint the masonry façades; and replace all of the non-historic windows on the east façade with two-over-two double-hung aluminum windows with an extruded aluminum brick mold and a dark green finish.

6:45 PM Previously presented for Advisory Review 8/2016
17.382 FPC: 5 & 6 Necco Court
Applicant: Todd Dundon, Gensler (Applicant), General Electric & MassDevelopment
Proposed Work: Construct a glass enclosure between the two buildings and a connector bridge to a new building; construct a rooftop addition, mechanical equipment and roof deck; modify window, door and hoistway openings; create new window and loading bay openings; install signage; relocate and screen ground level transformers; and create a waterfront plaza.

PROJECTED ADJOURNMENT: 8:45 PM

FORT POINT CHANNEL LANDMARK DISTRICT COMMISSION

David Berarducci, Susan Goganian, John Karoff, Michele Yeeles, Vacancy

Alternates: B.K. Boley, Thomas Rodde

originally published 10.5.16