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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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    45 Bromfield Street | Downtown Crossing

    Isn't the opposite true? Instead of letting NIMBYs and all sorts of nonsense block *towers downtown* we should make them by right and possibly require facade preservation with simple clear rules? There's a reason we just saw two proposals immediately after they became by right --- in fact, we'd...
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    11-21 Bromfield Street | DTX | Downtown

    The unit count is a good example of using downtown towers for more than just ultra luxury....which is great.
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    Commonwealth Pier Revitalization (née Seaport WTC)| 200 Seaport Boulevard | Seaport

    The Daily Provisions is already packed. What's most of the pier space used for post renovation?
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    USPS Complex | Fort Point

    AI generated nonsense, this view doesn't exist. Note the northern ave bridge in frame and the mislocated Customs House Tower viz International Place....
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    1280-1330 Boylston Street, Brookline

    What's the draw of hotel over resi this far out from the core?
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    Rose Kennedy Greenway

    Looking back, it's hard to find one as hokie, schlocky, and just low quality dreck as this one. Standards have really slipped, regardless of style.
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    Mission Hill Parcel 25 | Tremont St @ Roxbury Crossing

    The only smart way to do 60-100% affordable imho is to put in lots of 100-120% AMI which is the sort of thing that should pencil in normal conditions for non-trendy n'hoods (like this area).
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    The Dorsey (Née The Smith) | 575 Albany | South End

    The real question is when can the other Harrison-Albany blocks get such treatment. Lots of vacant lots across Deadham...
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    South End Infill and Small Developments

    the city refused to consider doing this in the name of starting faster. meanwhile, it was already supposed to be finished and it has yet to start and the city has a budget crunch.
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