Unique Cafe & Art Related Space Opportunities at The Artist Building at 300 Summer

Dreamed of opening your own café or art gallery? The Artist Building at 300 Summer is offering two unique rental opportunities. 

A 1,700 square foot café in their Atrium including a kitchen. 

A 1,094 square foot arts-related space with large glass windows and doors that abuts the atrium and formerly housed the FPAC Gallery.  The space is also available for other arts related non-profits or arts related business uses.

Reasonable rent for the right fit to join this artist building composed of 47 live-work spaces and 7 businesses.

The building at 300 Summer Street is a historic structure originally built for Boston’s wool trade in 1898 by the Boston Wharf Company. With large windows, abundant light, and views of downtown Boston and the harbor, the building was perfectly suited for conversion to artist lofts. In 1992, the Fort Point Arts Community acquired the building and Keen Development redeveloped it into a artist live/work limited equity cooperative joining fellow artists at the 249 A Street Artists Cooperative in the neighborhood.

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

Fort Point Channel Landmarks September Meeting

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

Thursday, 11 September 2014

5:30 P.M.

Boston City Hall – Room 709

After 5:30 p.m., 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. Applications are available for review during normal business hours at the office of the Environment Department. Applicants or their representatives are required to attend, unless indicated otherwise below. Sign-language interpreters are available upon request.

I. 5:30 PM DESIGN REVIEW HEARING

5:30 PM
Application 15.349 FPC 320 Summer Street
Applicant: Wagamama (tenant): Construct glass and metal canopy and new patio with planters and outdoor furniture; install signage; replace 3 windows and entry door; install louvers in alley windows

5:50 PM
Application 15.350 FPC 27 Wormwood Street
Applicant: DIV Tower Point Property LLC (property manager): Install lighting on building facades and smokestack

6:10 PM
Application 15.354 FPC 11 Seaport Boulevard
Applicant: MS Seaport Block J, LLC (owner): Construct 11 story building on vacant parcel, within the Seaport Boulevard/Boston Wharf Road Protection Area

6:40 PM
Application 15.347 FPC 300 Summer Street
Applicant: Bledar Hoxhallari (tenant): Install vinyl window decals

II. 6:50 PM ANNUAL MEETING: Election of Officers

III. Administrative Review / Approval: In order to expedite the review process, the commission has delegated the approval of certain work items, such as those involving ordinary maintenance and repair, restoration or replacement, or which otherwise have a minimal impact on a building’s appearance, to the staff pending ratification at its monthly public hearing. Having been identified as meeting these eligibility criteria and all relevant guidelines, the following applications will be approved at this hearing:

Application 15.348 FPC 319 A Street: Perform exploratory masonry work and masonry cleaning tests in anticipation of masonry restoration project

Application 15.178 FPC 25 Channel Center: Install vinyl window decals

Application 14.1342 FPC 313 Congress Street: Replace windows; construct patio; install 
signage, awnings, and lighting

PROJECTED ADJOURNMENT: 7:00 PM

Fort Point Channel Landmarks July Meeting New Date & Place

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

Monday, 21 July 2014 

5:30 P.M. 

Boston City Hall – Room 709 

After 5:30 p.m., 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. Applications are available for review during normal business hours at the office of the Environment Department. Applicants or their representatives are required to attend, unless indicated otherwise below. Sign-language interpreters are available upon request. 

I. 5:30 PM DESIGN REVIEW HEARING 

5:30 PM 
Application 14.1011 FPC 374 Congress Street (continued review) 
Applicant: David Urbanos (tenant manager): Install patio, signage, lighting, etc. 

5:45 PM 
Application 14.1342 FPC 313 Congress Street 
Applicant: Patrick Lynch (tenant): Replace windows; construct patio; install signage, awnings, and lighting 

6:15 PM 
Application 14.1274 FPC 300 Summer Street 
Applicant: John Kelly (tenant): Install vinyl window film and mesh window shades with graphic content 

6:30 PM 
Applicant 14.1275 FPC 22 Boston Wharf Road 
Applicant: Mark Sullivan (manager): Install 2 internally illuminated parking signs 

II. 6:45 PM ANNUAL MEETING: Election of Officers 

III. 7:00 PM VIOLATIONS HEARING 

IV. 7:15 PM ADVISORY REVIEW 
11 Seaport Boulevard/Block J: Construct 11-story hotel on vacant parcel 

PROJECTED ADJOURNMENT: 7:45 PM 

FORT POINT CHANNEL LANDMARK DISTRICT COMMISSION 

David Berarducci, Susan Goganian, John Karoff, Yanni Tsipis, Michele Yeeles 

CITY OF BOSTON THE ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT

Boston City Hall, Room 709 • Boston, MA 02201 • 617/635-3850

updated with new date and room location, originally published 6.28.15

Opening Thurs. Night for 3

"Deep Blue" by Claudia Ravaschiere

3

July 29, 2010 - September 24, 2010

Representative works by:
John Hansen
Claudia Ravaschiere
Andrew Woodward

Date: July 29 – October 1, 2010

Artists’ Reception:
Thursday, September 16, 5:30 – 8:00pm


The Fort Point Arts Community is pleased to announce 3, the first invitational art exhibition of the new season, corresponding with the inauguration of the 2010-2011 Gallery Committee.

3 features three Fort Point artists that, in the opinion of the Gallery Committee, have been under-recognized, yet display the high caliber and diversity of contemporary painting that is representative of the vast wealth of talent which calls Fort Point home.

John Hansen can be described as a meeting of The Ash Can School and the Psychedelic.

Claudia Ravaschiere ventures into the abstract, with detailed, cellular meditations with a Chuck Close-like system of parts.

Andrew Woodward blends the graphic and architectural with a colorist’s formality to make iconic daily surroundings.

Opening Tonight: Sprawl

The FPAC Gallery at 300 Summer Street Presents:

Sprawl

resa blatman / courtney jordan / lalie schewadron

April 23 - May 28, 2010

Reception with the Artists: Thursday, April 29^th, 6-8pm

Artist Talk: "The Artist as Evolutionist & Futurist," 

Saturday, May 1^st, 7pm

           

                                               

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survive.  It is the one that is the most adaptable to change."  -Charles Darwin

Sprawl is a mixed media exhibition of invented realities, alternative landscapes, and urban structures in various stages of evolution and decay.  It investigates contemporary utopian visions of the natural, urban, and scientific, through the filter of art and technology.  Past, present, and future collide in Sprawl, to reveal unexpected configurations and combinations of evolutionary possibility.

This exhibition features the work of Resa Blatman, Courtney Jordan, and Lalie Schewadron.  Diversified in source material, media, and modes of  representation, their independent approaches are bound by an exploration into the sprawling evolution of real and imagined spaces.

Resa Blatman's lavishly painted flora and fauna seduce the viewer with a bounty of feminine ripeness and sensuality.  Life abounds in these imagined worlds, creating a picture of abundance and beauty mixed with dark undertones.  To underscore the concept of lushness and sensuality, Blatman has broken out of the rectangular picture plane to make complex cut surfaces, and paintings that are untamed and growing out of control.  Blatman received her MFA in painting from Boston University in 2006.  She exhibits her work at museums and colleges throughout New England, and was a recent nominee for the Boston ICA James and Audrey Foster Prize.  Resa is a part-time Professor at the Massachusetts College of Art.  Please visit www.resablatman.com. 

Courtney Jordan uses exploding and converging urban spaces, architecture, and infrastructure to re-imagine our human-built environment, where past and future coexist.  She fragments architectural and industrial forms into multiple planes of space that seem as if propelled by the paradoxical energies of the contemporary world.  Her structures exist in a precarious balance between their past origins and a seemingly possible evolutionary future.  Jordan received her MFA in 2006 from the Maryland Institute College of Art's Hoffberger School of Painting.  She is currently a part-time Professor at Northern Essex Community College in Haverhill, MA, and is represented by Irvine Contemporary in Washington, DC.  Please visit  www.courtneyjordan.net

Lalie Schewadron uses video and digital media to create representational models that speak of perpetual movement and unrestricted growth.  Images from the natural world are broken down into small 'fractal units,' combined with video work, and then digitally programmed with shape algorithms and random scripts.  These animated worlds exist in a constant state of regeneration and flux - a fragile equilibrium made of temporary encounters whose parts can evolve or decay at any moment in time.  Schewadron received her MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins University of the Arts, London, following a Master of Science from Boston University.  Born in Tel Aviv, she currently works in Boston and Lausanne, and is represented by Lucy Mackintosh Gallery.  Please visit www.lalies.net.

FPAC Gallery: Exquisite What ?

Exquisite What?

Ian Henderson & Clint Fulkerson

March 12, 2010 - April 16, 2010

FPAC Gallery

300 Summer St.

Artists' Reception: Thursday, March 18th 5:30 - 8:00pm


Artists' Presentation: Friday, March 26th 7:00pm
-a short talk about working process with images
-a short demonstration of some wax working techniques

Fort Point in NYTimes

The NY Times has an article about the Boston waterfront which includes a section on Fort Point. 300 Summer, Flour, and Sportello are mentioned.


January 1, 2010
In Boston, Where Change Is in the Winter Air
By SARA RIMER

http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/01/01/travel/escapes/01boston.html

...

You could spend all day at the museum, inside and out. But now that you’re here, you’ll also want to explore the evolving Fort Point Channel neighborhood, its streets lined with old industrial lofts and warehouse buildings that slowly are being reclaimed as commercial and residential space, with a few artists’ studios to give it a bohemian feel.

You can try Barbara Lynch’s newest restaurant, the popular, casual Sportello on Congress Street. At lunch and dinner its counter is abuzz with movers and shakers who walk over from the financial district. Ms. Lynch, who grew up in a South Boston housing project, is a chef goddess in this town. Around the corner is Flour, a bakery and cafe where you can order sandwiches, salads and homemade desserts.

There are still artists around, though not nearly as many as there used to be. You can stop in at the galleries at 300 Summer Street, and further down Summer Street at the Boston Convention Center is a show of local artists, including the gritty urban landscapes of Vincent Crotty. Eventually you’ll get back on the HarborWalk.