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The Boston skyline is about to see a big change from its boring frontage of the Hancock and Prudential Towers if local developer Steve Belkin has his way. He has proposed adding a 75 story high tower that will be 200 feet taller than the next tallest building . Boston has prided itself on the historical aspects of the town, more steeples than skyscrapers, but the demand for commercial real estate is green lighting the new projects if they can get governmental approval.

Local businessman Steve Belkin’s proposed glass-and-steel tower would top the city’s current tallest building by more than 200 feet and 15 stories, reflecting a resurgence in the downtown commercial real estate market, observers say.
 
    “I think it’s going to make a lot of our other buildings look very boring, quite honestly,” said Frank Nelson, a Boston-based executive director with the commercial real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield. “We need it.”
 
    The design by renowned Italian architect Renzo Piano emerged last week in response to Mayor Thomas Menino’s call in February for private development proposals to replace an aging city-owned parking garage in the heart of the Financial District.
 
    Officials in Boston and other U.S. cities typically seek to rein in developers’ wishes to build high above neighboring office buildings, but the sky was the limit for Menino. He encouraged a bold architectural statement to surpass the John Hancock Tower, which for three decades has stood as New England’s tallest building at 60 stories and 792 feet.
 
    The Hancock anchors Boston’s Back Bay section along with the 42-year-old, 52-story Prudential Tower. via the Boston Herald

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