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Moving into an FP3 condo and becoming part of the Seaport district has never been more exciting.  Recently announced in a Boston Globe article, 2012 is the year that the South Boston Waterfront will continue to transform itself into one of the city’s the hottest neighborhoods.  Developers are slated to build more than 1,700 apartments in sleek and modern buildings, which will welcome more residents, retailers and shoppers to the area that surrounds FP3.

Today, the “Innovation District” as the area is now being called, has already brought in more than 90 companies and businesses in the past 24 months help drive growth and development.

For more information about the latest develops, please read this recent Boston Globe article titled, “Changes on the Waterfront”.

Everyone knows that the Fort Point Neighborhood in Boston’s Seaport District is getting more desirable by the minute, and here is just one more sign.  Jody Adams, renowned chef, restauranteur, author, world traveler, and contestent on Top Chef Masters, will soon be opening a new restaurant in the area,  ”Trade at Atlantic Wharf.”  The restaurant will feature Mediterranean fare influenced heavily by Spanish, Italian, and Greek cuisine.   The dinner menu will include items such as roast chicken marinated in lemon, slow-cooked stuffed pork and braised beef short ribs, and grilled bluefish priced from $23 to $30.

This is certainly not Adams’ debut in Boston. Her restaurant, Rialto, located in Cambridge, is a perennial favorite and has received praise in both Gourmet and Food and Wine magazines.

The highly anticipated  ”Trade at Atlantic Wharf” will add to the increasingly sophisticated allure of the Seaport District. The area’s posh and casual restaurants and nightlife have made it Boston’s coolest places to life.  Stylish residences, such as FP3 (which is located just over the bridge from Trade), draw an intellectual, fun, diverse, and progressive crowd of well established professionals and artists alike.

If you are interested in information regarding FP3 Luxury Condominiums, please contact FP3 today!

More developments are on the way for the Boston Waterfront that will continue to transform the neighborhood around FP3 into the hottest spot in town.

Construction is set to begin on Pier 4 next year to draw more activity to the Waterfront with the addition of a 21-story tower that will boast 357 apartments, retail stores and an underground parking garage near the Institute of Contemporary Art.

Already new restaurants and bars at Liberty Wharf are generating lines out the door. And although the historical restaurant Anthony’s will be taken down, it may reopen again on the property in the future.

For more about this latest development, please read the Boston Globe article, “Waterfront in Bloom.”

Boston's Pier 4 - Site of New Development

Boston’s newest skyscraper, the $550 million Atlantic Wharf, is adding to the transformation in progress along the Waterfront and is part of Boston’s newly dubbed ‘Innovation District.’ The Atlantic Wharf development will offer restaurants, residences, boating tours, and cultural institutions. Among these amenities, there will be four restaurants including two fine-dining options, a couple of casual lunch spots, and a coffee shop, and an abundance of office space.

This will most likely be the last large property built on the downtown side of the city’s Waterfront, at least for some time. Mayor Thomas M. Menino has restricted the size of buildings along the waterfront in an effort to transform the Fort Point Channel into a recreational waterway as an entrance to the Innovation District.

Boston’s new ‘Innovation District’ includes the Fort Point Channel and Boston Waterfront areas, designating the district as an urban setting to test new technologies that will fundamentally change the ways residents, workers, and visitors interact with the environment, while saving it at the same time. Mayor Menino calls the project a “cornerstone” of the city’s efforts to create the transformation by adding start-up companies that provide citizens with new job opportunities with a range of skill levels.

“A new approach is called for on the Waterfront – one that is both more deliberate and more experimental…  The massive expanse of the South Boston Waterfront, with its existing knowledge base, opportunity for growth, and world-class infrastructure is ripe to produce world-class products and services.”

-Mayor Thomas M. Menino

The 31-story complex is within walking distance of  FP3′s Residences, Restaurants, and Gallery. The addition of the Atlantic Wharf development is just another great bonus to living in the Fort Point Neighborhood.

If you’re interested in living in this exciting new district contact FP3 to tour our loft-style condos, terrace homes, and penthouse residences.

FP3 Luxury Penthouse Hosts Stylish Event

Lisa Pierpont, JinR, Daniela Corte

Last week, Jia Moderne, which is located at the Boston Design Center, welcomed and introduced to Boston…for the first time ever…Beijing artist and designer JinR to an exclusive audience gathered for a seated dinner in one of our luxury penthouses.

Not only was JinR herself introduced to some of Boston’s most influential individuals, but her premium “Seat for T” Collection [which includes the strikingly tall and stylish, MING CHAIR, featured in the photo to the left], was unveiled for the first time in the United States as well!   And the entire unveiling took place at FP3!

Just some of the guests checking out these amazing, one of a kind, hand-crafted chairs at FP3 last night are shown in the photo to the right (names from left to right):

Boldfacers’ Lisa Pierpont, guest of the evening, JinR [seated] and designer extraordinaire Daniela Corte

The Ming Chair is made of ebony stained Chinese hardwood with a startlingly high back of 2.31 meters.

All of the JinR chairs pictured here and more are available for purchase exclusively through Jia Moderne at the Boston Design Center.  Visit their website for more information.  [www.jiamoderne.com]

The amazing dinner was catered by The Catered Affair, who presented a four-course menu inspired by JinR’s recipes from her successful Green T Houses back in Beijing.

It truly was a spectacular evening and guests were blown away by the talented JinR and these one-of-a-kind chairs which are works of art themselves!

Jia Moderne luxury furniture by Designer JinR

Some of the attendees who met JinR and saw her new “Seat for T” signature chair collection for the first time….

- Janet Wu of Channel 7 — who particularly liked another chair coincidentally called the WU CHAIR!! No kidding!

- Developer Young Park of Berkeley Investments – which developed FP3

- Joe Laurano, of ResMark, the sales and marketing division established by Berkeley Investments

- Tim Kirwan, General Manager of InterContinental Boston

- Ricardo Rodriguez, Coldwell Banker real estate broker

- Jeet Singh, ATG

- Vivien Li, Boston Harbor Association

- Elizabeth Lowrey, Elkus Manfredi Architects

- Amy Finsilver, General Manager of XV Beacon

- Michael Barnum, designer

- Michelle Moon, Peabody Essex Museum

- Hiromi Kinoshita, MFA

- Ben Schwartz, BSO

PHOTO CREDIT:
Randy Gross
Elevin Studios

FP3′s Penthouse 3 is this week’s featured home in The Boston Courant‘s Real Estate Guide.

Reporter Lise Beane recently took a tour of the magnificent space and fell in love with the open concept, amazing views and sun-splashed bedrooms.  She’s also a big fan of the neighborhood and its proximity to everything Boston has to offer.

Here’s an excerpt from the article:

“Just a short walk over the Congress Street Bridge from Boston’s high-end Harbor Front is a hip and happening water’s edge neighborhood brimming with art galleries, development and restaurants.

At the heartbeat of this revitalized Fort Point Channel area, FP3 is an American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) award-winning, new 92-residence condominium conversion and extension with sophisticated penthouses that evoke the new Institute of Contemporary Art. The building’s name, Fort Point Three or FP3, comes from the fact that it is comprised of two totally renovated historic warehouses conjoined with a brand new structure, then topped with penthouses.

Imagine an exciting, one-of-a-kind living space with soaring ceilings, expansive walls of glass showcasing skyscraper views of Boston and extraordinary private decks, so close to the ocean you can see and hear the seagulls.  Each penthouse offers its own unique loft-style design.

Located at 346 Congress Street, the setting is at once past, present and smartly positioned for the future. “

Read the rest of Boston Courant’s Real Estate Guide 10-22-10 Featuring FP3.

The Penthouse is currently available for sale and previews!  Contact Danielle Meade for more information or to schedule a tour.

FP3 is pleased to announce our partnership with Art New England Magazine and the Fort Point Arts Community to bring you another great exhibition at the FP3 Art Gallery.  FP3 will be hosting works by two local FPAC artists, David Moore and Jeff Smith.

Their work will be on display from October 12th through January 3rd, with an Opening Reception scheduled for Friday, October 15th from 6pm to 8pm.  Friday the 15th is also the start of the Fort Point Artist Community’s Open Studios weekend!

The FP3 Art Gallery is located at 346 Congress Street, in the lobby space of the FP3 Residences.  Gallery hours are Monday–Friday 10am – 6pm, and Saturday and Sunday 10am – 4pm.

Jeff Smith, “Radio Days,” 2009, wood and polyurethane, 33” x 71”

Jeff Smith Artist Statement:

” The work in this show represents the coalescence of techniques and ideas I have been developing throughout my journey to create a genre of my own making in a dimension somewhere between 2 and 3.

My palate comprises reclaimed materials.  The colors, patinas and often the shapes of the wood are as found.  When I make a piece, I am creating a jigsaw puzzle in reverse and without a box.  By creating sculpture from trash, I have invited the viewer to rethink what is or isn’t of value.   As Marshall McLuhan said, the medium is the message. Trash has been my clay since I began sculpting 20 years ago.

When making a piece I am composing a story with overlapping scenes and abstract meanings.  Much of my other sculptural work is physically interactive and kinetic.  These pieces are intellectually kinetic.

When viewed these pieces are atmospheric forays into the subconscious rather than representational.  If music, they would be instrumentals. The lyrics are what the viewer creates in his own mind. ”

David Moore, Ceide Field XXXV, 2009, oil/linen, 60” x 42”

David Moore Artist Statement:

” I have been painting about the use of line and color for more than 30 years.  These paintings are not about a verbal experience as words can only provide a threshold for your entry. Line is blurred into meaning.

My paintings have evolved from representational scenes of urban structures, cloud formations, tree textures, and water studies, to paintings of abstract monochrome grids and curvilinear structures. Saturated color, repeated linear markings, and glowing nuanced surfaces have been essential to my concept of “obsessive abstraction”.

The Ballinglen Series is inspired by travels in Ireland and a residency at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland.  Upon returning to the U.S. with a suitcase full of works on paper, I began a series of large oil paintings entitled “Ceide Field”. Measuring up to 60 inches and just off-square, and smaller oil studies, the paintings parallel the Irish landscape through abstract spatial loops and repeated mark-making.

Influenced by the peat bogs of the “Ceide Field” County Mayo, the coastal rock formations in Easky, County Sligo, the Slieve League cliffs of County Donegal, and the landscape of the Burren, County Clare, this work continues my exploration of the daily ritual of place, realized in paint by dramatic lines, gesture, and color. Line, color, and gesture is used to create micro/macro metaphors of topographical and biological synapses in the series of paintings entitled “Ceide Field”. “

You can also view the art in our gallery if you attend our next open house at the FP3 residences on Sunday, October 17th!

We invite you to join us at our next Open House this Sunday, October 3rd from 1-3pm.

Tour FP3 and see the award-winning architecture and learn more about how Boston-based architect, David Hacin, adaptively reused two existing historic warehouse structures and a new infill building to make FP3 the epitome of blending modern style with the historic Fort Point Channel neighborhood’s architecture.  See our luxurious penthouse suites with breathtaking views of the Boston skyline, or perhaps a trendy loft-style studio is more your style?

Be sure to check out the current art exhibit featured in the lobby and art gallery space of FP3 by artist/ print maker Vicky Tomayko before the exhibit leaves.  We also suggest a visit to Sportello for some yummy brunch or lunch by celebrity Chef Barbara Lynch on the ground floor of FP3!

We hope to see you then!

FP3 Hosts 40 Under 40 Honorees

Last week, FP3 welcomed and hosted a networking reception for the Boston Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 Honorees…what an esteemed group of young professionals!  As a 2010 sponsor, FP3 welcomed this talented and aspiring group of entrepreneurs who are making a dramatic impact on Boston’s business landscape to an evening of social and corporate networking in one of our penthouse suites.

Some one hundred invited guests mingled, networked and socialized with each other, and enjoyed what was one of the nicest evenings of the summer.  Temperatures were still balmy and the terrace of Penthouse 3 served as the perfect back drop as the sun set behind the Boston skyline and the Harvest Moon rose above.

Aside from honoring present and past award-winners, the evening also provided the honorees with a chance to hear how they could leverage and use this distinction to their advantage during the course of every day business.  Sandy Lish, Principal & Co-founder of The Castle Group spoke to the group about creating your own personal brand, a hot and timely topic.

Special thanks to our event partners: Ambrosia Events & Catering, Cold River Vodka, Winston Flowers, and Party By Design [pbd] for making the night such a success!  Penthouse 3 looked amazing and everyone was blown away by the spectacular views, late summer cocktails and easy, flowing conversation and food.  Lots of business cards were undoubtedly shared that night!!

To learn more about the honorees read the recent BBJ article here:  BBJ announces 40 Under 40 honorees – Boston Business Journal

Art New England recently premiered its new Art Salon series at FP3 in Penthouse One.

Jack Dzamba was the featured artist and his black and white photographs, entitled Paris in Boston, were spectacularly presented in a dramatic setting, complete with amazing views of the Boston skyline.

Opening Night

The evening featured cocktails from Cold River Vodka (gluten free and made from potatoes!) and celebrity chef Tony Ambrose was back in the kitchen offering delicious hors d’oeuvres to invited guests.

The Art Salon series continues at FP3 throughout the Fall.  Stay tuned for more details.

In the photo to the left, Photographer Jack Dzamba, CEO of Canvas Fine Arts Center Susanne Schultz, and Rita Fucillo the Assistant Publisher of Art New England Magazine pose for a photo together on an FP3 Penthouse Terrace.

And, yes…both the art and Penthouse are for sale!!

Contact us today to learn more.

To learn more about the artist and his inspirations for this collection and book, click the video below and watch a great interview by Susanne Schultz with Jack Dzamba from Opening Night!

BNN’s It’s all About Art with Jack Dzamba at FP3 from Andrew Swaine on Vimeo.