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    Platform screen doors.

    Thanks for 3-day old news. The guy was "unsteady on his feet" (wasted) and it was 1am. The Red Line isn't "haunted." It's a sad and unfortunate event, but get your story straight.
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    Motor Mart Tower | 201 Stuart Str. | Park Sq | Boston

    The core three-story art deco headhouse and copper-sheathed platforms *were* built. the 14-story tower wasn't for the reasons you outlined. the crash of '29 didn't immediately impact planning pipelines (and then, obviously, it did). BERy and others wouldn't know that at the time of the proposal...
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    Motor Mart Tower | 201 Stuart Str. | Park Sq | Boston

    I don't mind the 2019 proposal at all -- I just take issue with the "tower" nonsense. Also agree that a well-executed art deco tower would be preferable, especially one with a distinctive crown or even a spire (a spire?!?! in Boston??!).
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    Motor Mart Tower | 201 Stuart Str. | Park Sq | Boston

    I'm sure whatever they eventually do with this property won't be like the 2019 proposal, but it always astounds me when a 20-story structure would ever be referred to as a "tower." Any other city in the world would just consider a 20-story residential building a... building.
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    South Station Tower | South Station Air Rights | Downtown

    Aperol Spritz waterfront Boston in a Ritz-branded buidling: $20-25 for sure.
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    North End Piazza on The Greenway | 198 Hanover Street | North End

    Awnings, non-monochrome signage, actual balconies -- none of this is terribly difficult. These people shat the bed bigtime. If the original iteration of Hotel Commonwealth (aka Hotel Cheesecake Factory) was enough to prompt the city to take action, this stupid "piazza" should be, as well.
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    North End Piazza on The Greenway | 198 Hanover Street | North End

    Still looks cheap and shitty
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    The New Residential Conversion Thread

    That's ^^^ fantastic news. It feels like Chinatown is in a very precarious spot these days.
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    The New Residential Conversion Thread

    100%
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    North End Piazza on The Greenway | 198 Hanover Street | North End

    seriously
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    North End Piazza on The Greenway | 198 Hanover Street | North End

    Yeah, but it's better than... uh... um...
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    Copley Square Revamp | Back Bay

    I stand (sit) corrected -- as I did a few weeks ago when your points were made by another. *My* point is that the area in between Trinity, the BPL, the hotel, etc. has never historically been a "park" (lush expanses of grass, tons of trees) in any way.
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    North End Piazza on The Greenway | 198 Hanover Street | North End

    It is such a "piazza"!!! 💀
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    Mixed Use (40B Fmr Star Market) | 299 Broadway | Winter Hill | Somerville

    Slowly getting taller and wider with the Western part of the complex nearlhy about to join the Eastern in going vertical. These may not be especially sexy pix (and I can absolutely stop posting pix if it's just coming off as clutter) and the end-result won't be sexy, either, but it's so nice to...
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    Commonwealth Pier Revitalization (née Seaport WTC)| 200 Seaport Boulevard | Seaport

    A peek inside here. Wish there were more.
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