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SPECIAL EVENT!

The sixth stop on its global tour, the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series—the most prominent competitive platform for the sport—will be jumping off the Institute of Contemporary Art at Fan Pier on August 20.

Rather than natural cliffs, the divers will use a specially built platform on the cantilever roof of the ICA building on Fan Pier, which soars 80 feet above the water’s edge.

The Boston leg of the tour will be the Series’ first-ever east coast stop in the US, and for the first time in the competition’s three-year history, two-time Olympic Gold medalist Greg Louganis serves as one of the five judges on the global tour. Eleven divers from nine countries, between the ages of 25 and 46, will compete in seven events in 2011.

The public can view the festivities free of charge on the ICA Grandstand and Water Café, the best vantage points for viewing the competition. Public areas along Fan Pier provide additional space for spectators.

With ICA gallery admission, visitors are also invited to view the event in the John Hancock Founders Gallery.

To read more about the event, please visit the official Red Bull website, www.redbullusa.com, as well as Globe columnist, Kevin Dupont’s article, “Going off the Deep End at ICA”.

Date and Time:

August 20, 2011
3:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Free and open to the public

Location:
ICA
Boston Harbor
Boston, MA

If you’re in the Seaport district and have a pup or canine companion, then you’ll want to check out Yappy Hour in the Tamo Terrace of the Seaport Hotel & World Trade Center. What better way to mingle with fellow dog owners and with your best friend by your side?! It’s sure to be a blast.

Cocktails and Canine Companions every Wednesday Night in the Seaport District

Details:

Seaport Hotel & World Trade Center

Join us for Yappy Hour

Wednesday Nights through mid-September

5:30 – 7:30pm Tamo Terrace

One Seaport Lane, Boston

Boston’s Waterfront is a Popular Destination Year-Round!

A recent article in the Boston Herald discussed how the MBTA Silver Line has experienced huge increases in ridership due to the newfound popularity of Boston’s waterfront.

Legal Sea Foods’ CEO Roger Berkowitz commented on Boston’s waterfront saying that the “streets were teeming with people as if the Tall Ships were in town.”   Berkowitz is not the only one noticing the growing popularity of Boston’s Seaport District as one of Boston’s most exciting destinations for residents and tourists looking  for  great dining, shopping, and cultural actives.

The area’s increasing popularity is also reflected in much of the high end commercial and residential development happening in the area.  Luxury loft condos, like FP3 Boston, are reminiscent of localized cultural explosions seen in New York’s SoHo neighborhood.  Art exhibitions, posh restaurants, and exciting nightlife make Boston’s Seaport District the newest, hottest part of the city!

What’s your favorite thing to do in the Seaport/ Waterfront area?  Comment below!

Read the full Boston Herald article here: http://bostonherald.com/business/general/view.bg?articleid=1354356

The FP3 gallery is pleased to present “AQUATIC,” a new exhibit featuring artists Lora Brody, William Hamlin, and Thom Lussier. The exhibit, a collaborative show with The Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, begins this Thursday, July 14th and runs until September 28th. The artists featured have each utilized water as the subject or source in distinct ways for their work.

LORA BRODY is an award-winning Boston and Provincetown-based photographer best known for her “Pinhole” photographs of swimmers. She uses a Nikon SLR camera fitted with a pinhole cap to capture images of bodies moving through water. Her photos have appeared on the cover and in feature articles in The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, The Cape Cod Times, Cape Cod Magazine, Woman’s Day and Cooking Light.

WILLIAM HAMLIN created his unique style of photography through the study of both photography and art history at NYU. Hamlin formed his own technique – the woven photograph – after he created a series of collages in the style of David Hockney and a series of photographic extensions inspired by Lucas Samaras. Hamlin has received numerous awards and has been featured in many exhibitions throughout the Northeast. For this exhibition Hamlin presents a series of woven photographs of tiled swimming pools.

THOM LUSSIER is a graduate of Massachusetts College of Art (BFA, photography) and received his Master’s from Yale University (MFA, photography). Lussier has worked with a large panoramic camera for many years. His work for this exhibition is a set of images from a series titled “Underneath.” The images are not digitally altered in any way and are featured in suspended shadow boxes in order to preserve the fluidity of the material on which they’re printed. Lussier’s work has been exhibited all over the world – New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Berlin, Milan, and London… And now, Boston!

Visit FP3 this Thursday evening for an artist’s reception between 6-8 pm and enjoy this amazing new exhibit, a great way to spend a summer evening.

More than a dozen eateries along the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway kicked off their summer cookin' just after Memorial Day.

The best thing about living in Boston is that there’s always something new and exciting cooking just around the corner and the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway is no exception.

The smells of delicious foods from carts and mobile eateries along the Greenway stretch can be detected from the North End to Chinatown; a welcoming sensation for any food fan! And as it turns out, a few restaurateurs have caught wind of this booming eatery scene and want in on the action.

With the public park just a short walk across the bridge from us at FP3, this is very good news, especially for FP3 Residents with an appetite for great food.

Georgia Murray, chairwoman of the Greenway Conservancy, recently told the Boston Globe, “Great restaurateurs want to go where the people are. And more and more people are along the Greenway.”

Among the many restaurateurs venturing towards our Seaport neighborhood is blue-haired chef and Hell’s Kitchen contestant, Jason “Jay” Santos with his restaurant, Blue Inc. It will have a featured sidewalk patio with a great dining view of the Greenway’s lush gardens and foliage. In the evening, Jay will be serving up his signature crispy duck confit over mango sticky rice with hoisin cashew glaze, which sounds amazing. And for the lunch crowd, he will have a burger bar cooking with butterscotch and black truffle milkshakes, which sounds even more amazing.

Another expert chef, Jody Adams, will be opening her next big restaurant called Trade on the Greenway in the new Atlantic Wharf building as well.

It certainly is going to be an exciting summer filled with tasty foods and new restaurants.

If you’d like to know more about all the great food that the Greenway has to offer, check out our past blog article, Who’s Hungry? Dozen Food Vendors Returning to Greenway, and the latest Boston Globe article, Greenway Gets Cookin’. There’s no better time than now to Live FP3.

Our Penthouse #1 kitchen was featured in a Boston Herald article with video of expert chef, Ben Robinson, giving his take on some of the best luxury building kitchens from around the city.  Here’s what the Boston Herald and Chef Ben had to say about ours:

With Arclinea cabinets, Silestone counter tops, Bosch, Miele and Sub-Zero appliances, Penthouse 1 at FP3, listed for $1.65 million, would make any foodie feel like a winner.

Chef Ben says, “Good lighting around the stove is key, and this home features lights in the overhead vent hood as well as an exhaust system with different levels of draw. Combine that with a five-burner gas stove, double ovens and an oversized refrigerator that blends into the cabinetry and you have a cooking area any professional would love.”

Taste of the Fort Point Channel

Attention food lovers! Get out and enjoy this early summer weather with some of Fort Point’s finest cuisine!  Thursday, June 9th, the Friends of Fort Point Channel are hosting the 7th Annual Taste of Fort Point Channel at Children’s Wharf Park on Fort Point Channel.

Live music from local artists will be on tap for the whole event, and over a dozen Fort Point restaurants are offering samples of their finest wares.

Participating restaurants include Barbara Lynch‘s Sportello on the ground floor of FP3!

This is a free event open to the public – please come down and join us!  You can even enter a raffle to win a Friday night stay at the luxurious Seaport Hotel!

Fort Point, Boston’s up and coming luxury living destination, offers fantastic dining and entertainment to residents and visitors alike – come take this unique opportunity to try out some of the great restaurants that call Fort Point home. The amazing selection of traditional and avant-garde offerings might just convince you to make a luxury condo in Fort Point your new home!

The event runs from noon to 1:30pm. It is being held at Children’s Wharf Park, between Congress Street and Seaport Boulevard, on the Fort Point Channel (next to the Boston Children’s Museum) In the event of rain or other inclement weather, the event will be held at the same time the next day, Friday the 10^th.

Have you finished your spring cleaning for the year and now have a huge pile of things that you want to get rid of? Or have you realized you have more space in your Boston condo for more furnishings? If you answered yes to either, or both, of these questions then you need to attend the first-ever Fort Point Yard Sale! Now you can get some new, inexpensive local décor for your new Boston luxury condo.

This weekend, the Fort Point Arts Community and Fort Point Neighborhood Association are teaming up to bring this great community event to the residents [and their friends!] of Fort Point, Boston. The event will be held at the corner of A and Iron Streets – Channel Center parking lot – this Saturday, June 4^th from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Come see what the “Yard Sale” has to offer and get a sense of the great community that surrounds FP3.

Contact an FP3 representative to learn about the multitude of other features that FP3 condos and the entire Fort Point neighborhood have to offer. If you’re interested in being a vendor at this event email fortpointyardsale@gmail.com.

This past weekend, the skies cleared and temperature rose giving Bostonians a little bit of hope that summer really is just around the corner. The city was bustling as residents got out and enjoyed the nice change of weather. From Boston’s waterfront condos, white sails could be seen floating along the harbor as people took advantage of a free sailing open house at the Boston Sailing Center. Each boat was captained by an experienced sailor, and tourists and Boston residents alike had the opportunity to take the helm or sit back and enjoy a sail on the Boston Harbor.

This picturesque scene is just one of the many benefits of the luxury waterfront condos at FP3.

FP3 had one of the season’s most outstanding sales in April, with two penthouses selling to one buyer who intends to combine the two luxury residences into one grand unit with resort-like features.

“It is one of the most expensive, combined real estate transactions in the Fort Point Boston neighborhood,” said Joseph Laurano, director of operations for ResMark LLC, the marketing and development subsidiary of Berkeley Investments Inc.

The two penthouses, Penthouse Two and Four, which sold for $3.1 million, represent a combined square footage of 4,123 square feet. That’s not including the two terraces, which separately total 1,866 square feet. All in all, this combined purchase represents one of the most luxurious Boston waterfront condo projects to date.

“My client has a design-build business, and this is his urban project,” said Jamie Curtis of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage’s South End Office, the selling broker. Plans include a hot tub and outdoor kitchen on the roof deck, among other features. This project is a milestone for the Fort Point Boston neighborhood, solidifying its viability as a genuine destination for luxury living in Boston.

The two penthouses represent half of the top floor of the building. Uninterrupted views offer panoramic cityscapes in three directions, offering breathtaking perspective on the Financial District, Atlantic Wharf, the Intercontinental and Independence Wharf. To the East, Harbor Towers, the Tobin Bridge, Liberty Wharf and the Boston Harbor frame the elegant skyline.

“This is a strong endorsement for FP3 and this terrific neighborhood,” Laurano said. “This sale also places FP3 at 80 percent sold. Two penthouses, several three-bedroom units and a duplex remain.”  Click here to view virtual tours!

Interested in finding out more about these properties? Contact FP3 today to get more information!

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