Recent content by DBM

But how many of them are looking up?

Key clarification! Of course I'd assumed the bow was discontinued decades ago after the Artery came down... I'm surprised they've stuck with it, given how the spectacle has gone from 10,000s of daily motorists, stuck in heinous traffic, staring at it daily, right at eye level, t/o December, to...

In a very odd way, 177 Milk suffered significantly with the demolition of the Central Artery, in that it no longer had the platform for wrapping the giant Christmastime red ribbon around it each December. That was one of the more memorable branding gimmicks in late-20th century Boston that I can...

Yes! "Little Buddy" [as the Radian tower was once hilarious termed, by someone far funnier than me, on AB] Used to be Townsman; now Stillwater*. Stillwater has actually operated there continuously since August 2019 per Google research, so, there was no pandemic-induced gap at Radian between...

I'm quite sure 1 Lincoln has never had restaurants--just massive expanses of gleaming marble in its huge L-shaped lobby, with equally massive expanses of abutting brickwork on its abutting sidewalks.... wonder what nearby tower you might be thinking of?

https://www.universalhub.com/2024/board-lets-company-renovating-downtown-tower-buy [New very large restaurant coming to 1 Lincoln St. secures liquor license] So, this one prompted me to do some digging... first of all, it's going to be very very large, 13,000 sq.-ft. per the Licensing Agenda...

There's a reason for that... https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/home-price-income-ratio-reaches-record-high-0

The 133 Fed. plaza keeps some excellent company in that regard. Here's the BPDA's official map for Downtown. Here are some plazas it names: City Hall Plaza. Here are some parks/plazas it doesn't name, MERELY IN DTX: 133 Fed. Plaza; 125 Summer Plaza; 1 Lincoln Plaza; 175 Fed. Plaza; 100...

Not according to this website, which lists John Moriarty as the GC for One Congress, whereas South Station Tower is Suffolk Const. Still not a great look, as you say, given the recent rash of construction-related fatalities/near-disasters in Boston--and given that Councilor Flynn has already...

I walk by it fairly frequently, and the construction is coming along nicely--but consider the fact that, even if the construction finishes at end-of-April (my estimate just from looking at it), there's still all of the testing of the fountain and any other features involving internal...

I'm not moving the goalposts; I'm merely pointing out what is point-blank obvious: that any study claiming that there has been a meaningful drop in property prices since March 2020 is full of crap, given that there have essentially been zero sales. Prices can't drop without price discovery...

Well, I'm blocked by a paywall, but I doubt it's relevant, as the part that's visible provides the dead giveaway: "property prices in Boston's central business district in the fourth quarter [of 2023] were down 30.4% year-over-year." So, they compared the, what? two-or-three sales in 2022 to...

What on earth are you talking about here? Please, please furnish a reliable, well-researched study by one of the giant nationwide brokerage houses--a Colliers, CBRE, JLL, what-have-you--that actually backs up this assertion. For starters, losses are realized until a property is sold. Very very...

Approved! (April Fool's... on this, the 1,246th day of development review for the proposal. To be followed by the 1,247th. And 1,248th...)

Assuming you're auditioning to be Howie Carr's replacement at the Herald, shouldn't you be forward these embittered reactionary tirades directly to the tabloid... instead of posting them on an architecture/development forum?