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    The Climate Change Thread

    The recent (and ongoing) Living With Water competition tip-toes into the waters of climate change and sea level rise within the Boston context. Most proposed solutions/visions-of-the future begin a dialogue with the public about solutions, some pragmatic and some whimsical...
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    MBTA Winter 2015: Failure and Recovery

    This seems reasonable, but I imagine there must be better ways to keep the tracks free of snow and ice. How do other snowier cities handle this?
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    Housing a Changing City: Boston 2030

    What a bargain...
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    MCCA Hotels: Aloft & Element | 371-401 D Street | South Boston

    +1 Xec Whigh the site has been a disused wasteland for at least 10 years. I don't consider a MassDOT service facility or a Big Dig staging zone the highest and best use for the D Street corridor.
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    Renovations to BPL's Johnson Wing | Back Bay

    Re: Menino plans renovations to BPL's Johnson Wing Thanks for the update Datadyne! The interior looks much improved. One question: Game systems in the library? That's one way to get the kids in the door...
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    MCCA Hotels: Aloft & Element | 371-401 D Street | South Boston

    Touche. I thought Massport still owned it. Massport > Pappas > Goldman Sachs > BCEC
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    MCCA Hotels: Aloft & Element | 371-401 D Street | South Boston

    I understand the CoDevelopment opportunity must go hand-in-hand with the Station Expansion. Frankly, I'm shocked its taken this long. Development is moving down D Street well before the Channel has been fully developed.
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    MCCA Hotels: Aloft & Element | 371-401 D Street | South Boston

    The development pressure from the South Station CoDevelopment would have to dislodge the current USPS building from its prime Channel-front location. That shouldn't be too difficult.
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    MCCA Hotels: Aloft & Element | 371-401 D Street | South Boston

    The majority of the parcels between E and the Reserve Channel are owned by Massport and the Federal Government. Long-term land leases to Pappas and others are just a land-bank use until development pressures push across E Street.
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    Watermark Seaport | 85 Seaport Blvd - Parcel K | Seaport

    Re: Watermark Seaport (parcel K Seaport Sq.)/85 Seaport Blvd @ Seaport Sq./Seaport The City and Massport have both studied this at various stages of the neighborhoods rise. Massport for instance conducted a fairly comprehensive set of design guidelines/standards back in 2004 for Commonwealth...
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    Crazy Transit Pitches

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    Watermark Seaport | 85 Seaport Blvd - Parcel K | Seaport

    Re: Watermark Seaport (parcel K Seaport Sq.)/85 Seaport Blvd @ Seaport Sq./Seaport The "Old Fashioned Streetlamps" are the Fort Point standard fixtures that come in single and double lamp varieties along Congress Street and Historic Fort Point. The Seaport has a mixture of "Harborwalk"...
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    Lynn Central Square

    At what point do market priorities shift, allowing those strip malls and vacant lots to be redeveloped? Is frequent public transit necessary (DMU, Blue Line) or can things develop with a ferry and 10 minute drive to wonderland?
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    Lynn Central Square

    I feel rather strange commenting on a thread thats a few years old, but I'm new to archBOSTON, and couldn't help myself. As someone who recently purchased a home in Lynn (outside of downtown), my wife and I have been exploring downtown Lynn in bits and pieces. We've been pleasantly surprised...
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    Lynnport (Former GE Gear Plant) | Lynn

    Gear plant ‘ready to be sold’ By Thor Jourgensen / The Daily Item | Posted: Friday, January 31, 2014 3:00 am LYNN — A 60-acre Lynnway site slated to be dangled in front of developers as early as next month is “probably the most valuable” land in Lynn, the city’s top development official...
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    Seaport Neighborhood - Infill and Discussion

    Re: Innovation Dist. / South Boston Seaport Not a problem! Its "conveniently" located deep in the Massport website. Although it doesn't take precedents over the FAA overlay, its a terrific tool to predict future building heights.
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    MassDOT Public Meeting: Lynn

    Presentation of the MassDOT five-year Capital Investment Plan and WeMove Massachusetts: Planning for performance, the Commonwealth's Long-Range Transportation Plan http://blog.mass.gov/transportation/massdot-highway/massdot-capital-plan-meetings-begin-january-29/
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    Air Rights (writ-large) Thread

    The Shaws and Crowne sites were developed when That portion of i90 was constructed, eliminating any construction/use conflicts. It's the same reason the Prudential/Copley was developed integrated into the highway infrastructure.
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    Seaport Neighborhood - Infill and Discussion

    Re: Innovation Dist. / South Boston Seaport The Massport (not FAA) composite height map is randomly specific in some places... Especially along the Fort Point Channel/South End edge https://www.massport.com/media/11778/BOS_COMPOSITE_Ver2pt0_dec201_small.pdf

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