Boston Gloves
Matt Millie will swim in the 75-foot indoor lap pool at the Millennium Residence at Winthrop Center, a Boston luxury apartment complex. Boston Globe Bret Phelps
It was extremely cold, very ice, and pedestrians all over town had fallen. However, on the 35th floor of Winthrop Centre’s Millennium Residence, it felt as easy as a summer afternoon. Richard Baumart was 75 feet long, surrounded by floor-to-ceiling windows, surrounded by enchanting shades of water. . . Let’s call it Concierge Blue.
“You’re rapping in the sky!” cried Baumert, managing partner at Millennium Partners. He heard him with whimsical adoration like a child. “This is a big draw for people.”
With rents being punished and some Bostonians are being pushed out of their homes across the planet, affordable housing has become a central issue in the mayoral campaign.
But in the neighbourhood of the city’s new position, the fight goes beyond lifestyle rather than meeting the basic needs of life. It’s a war of amenities. In beast mode.
In a world where two-bedroom condominiums routinely cost over $2 million, monthly homeowners association costs over $2,000, and penthouses sell for tens of millions of dollars. A building is more than just a building. In the words of Ricardo Rodriguez, a luxury real estate agent at the Coldwell Bunker, they are “vertical country clubs.”
There is a resident-only restaurant run by a fancy chef. A golf simulator with a wet bar. A fully staged child playroom should not allow children. A fitness centre with a deck that is landscaped to evoke the Mediterranean, a screenplay room for private movie nights, IV drip, a work space worthy of “inheritance” and a more luxurious locker room than many homes. A place for stretching. Very elegant service will ruin you for your interactions with members of your own family.
In the Four Seasons, one Dalton not only covers the driveway, but also heats the sidewalk. Echelonseport has three pools, one with a waterfall and a cabana. And then the basketball court is converted to a pickleball court. Raffles Boston Residence has something better than butler and perhaps even better. It’s a framing of your life that sounds like Dondraper himself wrote.
The website reads “Home.” “We will return again and again after every voyage of discovery. It is the beginning and end of every journey, the feeling that we carry our hearts, the memories that bring us back.”
But perhaps the most important, it’s all competitive and amenity for dogs.
At Millennium Residence, located in Winthrop Centre in the financial district, dog services include aromatherapy facials ($50), agility training ($300 for six sessions) and luxurious boarding at New Hampshire Farm ($105 per night).
On a recent tour of Dog Spa, Baumert said the building also offers dog acupuncture ($65) and Reiki. As he said, the long-haired dachshund Lila is probably eager to have her chakra read ($50) or maybe she’s sad that she doesn’t live in Sudbury at the intersection of bullfinch.
There are also exterior spaces for dogs, in addition to human illustrious outdoor spaces, such as the pool and the “front porch” on the 9th floor with rocking chairs. To run and to relieve yourself.
“We’ll make sure that some buildings go indoors,” said Simona Raposta, a living real estate agent with an advisor who was showing the reporter. She allowed herself to flinch quickly, perhaps considering the smell, or to drive the selling point home.
Many of the city’s gorgeous towers are built in areas that lack the charm of Back Bay and Beacon Hill, but who cares! There’s no need to leave (except for flying to another house).
David Bates, William Ravis’ real estate agent, wrote in a lively newsletter: “Bostonians once lived in historic buildings with the highest address, and once flaunted their social status.
Certainly, the city’s newest luxury tower, the Ritz-Carlton Residence in Boston, South Station Tower, is located above the station.
But regardless. “Life on the Clouds” is how a place is placed on a website. “Starting at elevations of over 450 feet” homes “construct an extraordinary collection of private homes and amenities in the sky.”
If we were in New York City, the Nicknahm Treaty effectively requires that this new neighborhood be called “Bosky.”
Just a generation ago, Boston was a town that was not particularly common even in Doalmen. However, the summer of 2000 changed the game, according to the 2023 Globe Spotlight Report on Boston’s housing crisis and the luxury tower building boom. At that time, the Trinity Place condo building opened in Copley Square, and there were abandoned claims at the time. Since then, Boston has opened up over 50 large-scale developments featuring multi-million dollar condominiums (both new construction and renovations).
And now, at least there is a tragedy in buildings that don’t provide indoor stations to wash dogs, but that may be the case.
In late February, real estate agent Bates conducted a keyword search for amenities at 763 condominiums in the Boston market. The goal was to see what would become necessary even in an unfair building.
“Concierge,” he said, reading the keywords. “There are 224 in East Boston. There is a pool on 141 people (listed). The deck is 268 years old. There is a 95.
A few years ago, when the amenity madness blossomed, the term “fully manitized” entered the Lexicon (including money billed by powerbroker Maggie Gold Sealig) and now it has arrived at Beacon Hill.
“Archer Residence joined two historically important buildings to create the first fully modified, full-service luxury apartment in Beacon Hill,” reads the website for the seven-storey project on Temple Street.
Alas, even Bosky must nod to reality at times. As the Ritz-Carlton Residence website at South Station tries to boast, this location offers “I…I-90, I-93, and the I-93, and the Ted Williams Tunnel.”
There’s no one nightmare so you can buy you from a Boston driver.
Choose your lane, buddy!
