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Boston Waterfront Continues to Expand…
More developments are on the way for the Boston Waterfront that will continue to tran
sform 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
Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series at the ICA!
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
Aquatic Exhibit Makes a Splash in the Boston Globe
Globe Correspondent Cate McQuaid writes about the current exhibition at the FP3 Gallery in yesterday’s Boston Globe.
She calls the summery show “Aquatic’’ at FP3 Gallery “ a refreshing diversion.”
She adds: ”Of the three photographers working with water, my favorite is William Hamlin, who shoots tiled swimming tools, then cuts and weaves the photos, as in “Pool Step on Right.’’
The exhibition is a collaboration with The Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown and is on display through September 28, 2011. Other featured artists include Lora Brody and Thomas Lussier.
Read the full article here:
"I Love You, FP3"
We’re ready for our close-up! FP3 was recently host to a professional film crew and the s
tar-studded cast of the upcoming comedy film, “I Hate You, Dad.” The film features actors Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Leighton Meester, and Susan Sarandon.
Crews transformed our lobby into a fictional spa called “He Time Day Spa.” Scenes were also shot in one of FP3’s unoccupied luxury penthouses. Witness FP3’s motion picture debut when the film is released in June of 2012 and read the full article in the Boston Globe here!
FP3 Events are Making Headlines!
Art Salons, Networking Parties, Roof Top Yoga and more!
FP3 continues to make big news…this time in a front page business story in the October 2nd edition of The Boston Globe.
Read the full Boston Globe article here.
FP3 was singled out for the creative events it’s producing and hosting, in an effort to attract and cultivate prospective new buyers.
The highly successful Art Salons, co-hosted with Art New England magazine, were profiled, and the photos that accompany the story captured the amazing views that the FP3 penthouses offer!
A vacant unit in the FP3 condos was the setting for an art salon this week. (John Tlumacki/Globe Staff)
If you want to join our event mailing list- click here. You can also find us on Facebook and on Twitter.
Or if you want to see the breathtaking views that are works of art as well, contact FP3.
Vicky Tomayko's Exhibition in today's Boston Globe
Vicky Tomayko is the latest artist to be featured in the art gallery at FP3. Her collection of creatures will be on display and free for the public to view during regular business hours until October 9, 2010. Some of Vicky’s work appeared in today’s Boston Globe.
Vicky’s art was reviewed by Cate McQuiad for the article. In it, Cate notes:
“Her monotypes of monstrous creatures at FP3 are both comic and melancholy, and she has a vibrant color sense. Look at the drypoint monotype “St. John the Baptist as an Artist.’’ The squishy figure is, of course, headless, and he grips to his chest a pink, heart-shaped critter with one eye on a stalk and a protruding, forked tongue. The suggestion is that this artistic St. John speaks from his heart, but even when the heart speaks, you can’t entirely trust what it says.”
Ravine in Spring for CB- by Vicky Tomayko
Sylvia's Coral Reef by Vicky Tomayko
To see more of Vicky’s colorful, sometime whimsical and sometimes melancholy works, stop by the FP3 Gallery or visit the Vicky Tomayko website.
Art Salon at FP3
Get in touch with your inner Matisse at a salon?
Art Salons, prominent a century ago in Paris, are making a comeback in Boston at FP3!
In a stunning penthouse overlooking Fort Point Channel, Rita Fucillo, associate publisher of Art New England, is uniting tastemakers in art, fashion, and music to engage and be merry. “I’ve been desperate to do this,’’ said Fucillo, who has filled a pair of vacant condominiums at posh complex FP3 with local art work. Salons start up next month. Visit www.bostonguide.com and www.artnewengland.com for more details.
You can read the full article on things to do in Boston by Kathleen Pierce at www.boston.com.
Boston Condo Sales Pick Up
Downtown Sees 30% Increase in Condo Sales
Boston’s downtown condominium market saw sales surging by 30 percent in the second quarter of this 2010 when compared with the same period in 2009, according to data released by Listing Information Network, a Boston firm that tracks real estate. The number of condos sold between April and June of last year was 653, this year it was up to 849 for the second quarter.
Sales in luxury buildings, such as FP3, offering amenities such as valet and concierge services —increased by 9 percent to 121 sales in the second quarter, compared with the 2009 quarter, according to the data.
In a recent Boston Globe report on the downtown Boston condo market, Joseph Laurano, director of operations for developers Berkeley Investments, attributed the recent sales at FP3 to a change in marketing strategy as well as improvements in the economy and continuing low interest rates. “The [FP3] building is now 60 percent sold. Folks on firm financial footing view now as an opportunistic time to purchase urban real estate.’’
If you’ve been thinking about investing in a condo in Boston, why not schedule a tour of FP3 and see what living in Boston’s Fort Point area has to offer! Live in a new Boston development, with luxury amenities close to Boston’s Financial District and waterfront. Boston waterfront condos with FHA approval are hard to find- don’t pass this opportunity up!
The Sweet Smell of Excess
When adventurous diners wish upon a star, Barbara Lynch has plenty of answers at Menton
From Boston.com
By Devra First Globe Staff / July 14, 2010
“They are giddy. Drunk on knowledge. High on the conceit of what they are trying to do. Finest dining, here in Fort Point — modern yet lavish, refined and formal and beyond expensive. You are in their sights, and Menton’s minions are coming for you. From the right! A woman armed with more information about the wine she will pour than anyone would ever need to know. She is grinning. She is talking perfume and acid and soil and philosophy. She is pouring liquid, golden, into your glass.
From the left! A man with a dish of delicate white porcelain, covered by a domed lid. Attached at his hip like Gemini, twin in intent, another man with fingers out like pincers. He removes the lid. They watch, smiles twitching the corners of their lips, as you bend forward to look at what he hath revealed. Tiny, delicate, edible jewelry, landscape artistry in miniature. It is a round of rock crab salad with caviar, grapefruit, and almonds. It’s a balm, as refreshing as a cool cloth on the forehead.
They keep coming, the courses and the servers. You can’t have too many of either, it would appear.
A Maine scallop, glowing round and plump like a pearl. Hello, luscious. It sits beside ravioli stuffed with fava leaf. Truffles are flung about here and there like rose petals at a wedding. It’s a celebration of something, all right. Land and sea. Taste and texture. Spring and cleansing. So good.
Lobster salad, austere, coral rounds all in a row. On top, little piles of white sturgeon caviar and tarragon. Beneath, a line of artichoke shaved into delicate, tender slivers….”
Read the rest of this tantalizing review of Menton at FP3 here>>
Consumer confidence returning in downtown Boston condo market
Condo sales in Boston increased towards the end of 2009, according to a recent article in the Boston Globe. Though this is positive news, the article cites that downtown Boston condo sales were down overall in 2009 – hitting the luxury residence market especially hard.
Joseph Laurano, operations director for ResMark, is quoted in the article saying that consumer confidence is returning. FP3 Boston’s 22 condo sales in the second half of 2009 demonstrate this returning confidence in the downtown real estate market.