Events
Green Apple Day of Service
USGBC MA is organizing several activities in the Boston area for the first annual Green Apple Day of Service this Saturday, September 29th. “Where we learn matters” is the theme of this national day of service, organized by the Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). Sign up for one of the activities on the Green Apple website or organize your own, and be sure to let others know about these activities.
Summer Food Drive
When we received a call from our long-time community involvement contact Susan Walsh that the Somerville Homeless Coalition was in great need of food, the Arrowstreet crew launched a summer food donation drive. Our team donated a wide variety of nutritious and delicious non-perishable food, which we then packed into reusable shopping bags and donated to the Somerville Homeless Coalition’s Project Soup. Project Soup, New England’s first free dinner program, helps provide monthly groceries to elderly and disabled people in Somerville and Cambridge. We are all glad to help this wonderful local charity in its mission to serve those in need in our community.
I’ll Take a Latte with that Building Permit
I’ll be speaking at the Southern New England APA (SNEAPA) Planning Conference in Hartford next Friday with co-speakers Kenneth Buckland of The Cecil Group and Laura Wernick of HMFH Architects. The session abstract is below…
Arrowstreet at the Bisnow Retail Summit
Arrowstreet Principal Scott Pollack recently moderated a panel of real estate giants at Bisnow’s Annual Retail Summit. Terry Brown, CEO of Edens, joined Barry Rodenstein, SVP of Brixmor; Michael Jammen, Principal of UrbanMeritage; Ed Mitchell of Legal Seafood; and Steven Kelly of Timberline Construction to discuss the current state of retail development. Panelists agreed that deals are happening, but financing…
Arrowstreet at Bisnow: Life Sciences Summit
Recently, a small delegation of Arrowstreet architects attended the Bisnow Life Sciences Summit. Jim Batchelor, our President and CEO, moderated one of two panels, which included recognized industry experts from a variety of perspectives who spoke on the strength of the Life Sciences industry in the Cambridge area and in Massachusetts. The panels included Tim Stoll of BioMed Realty Trust, Jeff Lockwood of Novartis, Pamela Norton of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, Chuck Pappalardo of Suffolk Construction Company, Peter Calkins of Forest City Boston, and Robert Beal of The Beal Companies. The discussion was inspiring, and affirmed many of the experiences we’ve had at Arrowstreet in recent years working with life sciences planning expert Dan Winny and our clients designing lab and office spaces. Both panels also provided a very optimistic perspective about today and long term expectations for the growth and development of this key industry in Massachusetts…
Moderating Bisnow’s Life Sciences Summit
I have been invited to moderate the upcoming Bisnow Life Sciences Summit, taking place on Friday, July 27th, 7-10 AM, at the Boston Marriott Cambridge. Join the leaders of the life sciences community as we discuss one of Boston’s hottest real estate sectors. I look forward to seeing you there.
Softball at Arrowstreet: The A-Team
Work hard and play hard: several of us Arrowstreeters have joined “The A-Team”, a softball team in the Boston architects’ league. Our team is a crew of employees from a few different firms around the area including Albert, Righter & Tittmann Architects, the MSCBA, Foley Fiore Architecture, Form and Place, and Arrowstreet. We are about halfway through the season and just shy of .500 at 3-4. It’s time to step up to the plate and finish the season strong. Go A-Team!
Wonderland Garage Opens
The MBTA’s new Arrowstreet-designed South Parking Garage and Intermodal Transit Center opened on Saturday (June 30th) with a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by MassDOT Secretary Richard Davey, Revere Mayor Daniel Rizzo, U.S. Rep. Ed Markey, state Rep. Kathi-Anne Reinstein, House Speaker Robert DeLeo, and Revere City Councilor at large Anthony Zambuto, among many others from the Revere community. Both the Boston Globe and the Daily Item of Lynn reported on the event…
Student Tours at KIPP Academy Lynn
Over the past few months Matt Rice and I have had the opportunity to give the 7th, 8th and 9th grade students of KIPP Academy Lynn a tour of their new school, which is currently under construction, and speak with them about the role of an architect in this project. We teamed together with the Consigli, the building contractor, to walk them around the site and share information about the building and process. It was a fun experience for all involved. The students had great questions and the excitement they had for their new space was apparent. The new KIPP Academy Lynn building is scheduled to open for the start of the 2012 school year…
How We Celebrate Red Sox Opening Day: Fighting Cancer & Eating Ice Cream
We celebrated Red Sox Opening Day on April 13th by getting together to make our own ice cream sundaes complete with all the fixin’s and a cherry on top while watching the home opener against the Tampa Bay Rays. We also teamed up with the Jimmy Fund by creating our own Rally Team, The Arrowstreet Sox, to raise $85 to help support the Jimmy Fund and Dana-Farber in their effort to provide hope to adults and children being treated for cancer worldwide. A few of us were even lucky enough to see (and hear!) the formation of four F-16 Fighter Jets fly by our office on their way to Fenway Park, but we weren’t fast enough to snap a photo. Go Sox!