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    BFIT Redevelopment | 41 Berkeley Street | South End

    The BYSO is moving (or moved) to the Christian Science Plaza to consolidate all their space.
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    Old Colony phase 4, 5, & 6 | 72-110 Mercer street | South Boston

    Yeah, Moakley park could benefit from some retail alongside, as would Carson beach. Oh well.
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    Copper Mill Development | Elm Street and Grove Street | Davis Square

    Right, sometimes you need to kickstart the development of valuable brownfield land (eg the Seaport, or where there's old industrial sites near transit) but that should be the exception not the rule.
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    Old Colony phase 4, 5, & 6 | 72-110 Mercer street | South Boston

    No retail in this section, right?
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    Copper Mill Development | Elm Street and Grove Street | Davis Square

    I don't see any reason why high demand areas shouldn't get more density. People like Davis, let more people live there!
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    Hyde Park Infill and Small Developments

    *Strongly agree* with this take. There's tons of demand for self storage, too, given housing shortages.
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    Fenway Center (One Kenmore) | Turnpike Parcel 7, Beacon Street | Fenway

    BUT, towers are already permitted here. No nonsense NIMBY lawsuits and process delays that assuredly helped kill One Kenmore. Hotel prices are still astronomical in Boston
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    Fenway Center (One Kenmore) | Turnpike Parcel 7, Beacon Street | Fenway

    It would seem likely given hotel rates that a giant hotel would pencil here? Esp since the big one in Kenmore never got built?
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    The New Residential Conversion Thread

    I hope they keep Bacco around. The interior hall full of little shops was great before the pandemic.
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    Middlesex County Courthouse Redevelopment | 40 Thorndike St | East Cambridge

    the nimby's stopped that, right?
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    90 Washington Street | Somerville

    Damn the leerink proposal was so much better (and more homes)
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    The New Residential Conversion Thread

    The McCormack building could be used to move state and local offices, allowing complete redevevelopment of a lot of the monstrosities around gov't center....
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    Kenmore Square North (WHOOP) | 533-541 Commonwealth Ave | Fenway

    You're missing the point: design review made it *worse* than what the developers wanted to build, not that the final design is awful. If you go to the thread here on ArchBoston, you will see a wide variety of more interesting designs that were initially proposed, then watered down in design...
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    Kenmore Square North (WHOOP) | 533-541 Commonwealth Ave | Fenway

    Design review destroys good design and reduces it to the lowest common denominator. There's a great case study on this very forum for the newish building at Dartmouth and Newbury.
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    45 Bromfield Street | Downtown Crossing

    The reason you need the big assemblages is the thicket of zoning rules involving setbacks, heights (relaxed), lot coverage, etc. Cut these back, you can do smaller projects easier!
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