Recent content by DBM

The concept of "dire" in Las Vegas could take on a radically different meaning in coming years, should present trends persist.

Yes, of course the Globe is in the business of generating clicks and thus needs to be dramatic and sensational in its own Globe sort of way, but in this case I don't think "civic embarrassment" is hyperventilating. After I read the piece I refreshed my memory of baseline conditions via a Google...

Oh but won't someone please think of the Providence area TV reporters whenever they have to do a live shot from the Waterfire side of the park, showing the State House looming massive in the background? Whatever will they do if the park gets developed such that that key perspective gets...

Oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please find a way to boot Fire & Ice so that it goes and dies a small unremarked upon death in the corner. How the ^$^$#%#! does that place stay in business?!? It's THE most cringe, awkward dining concept devised by humankind... "none of you will be...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/01/business/waltham-housing-office-parks/ A dated relic, beholden to obsolete sensibilities, incapable of adapting to modern trends, hindered the Waltham brand with its backwardness... then there's the Route 128 complexes. Wake up, Waltham electorate! You...

"Daily ridership at the Pawtucket-Central Falls Transit Center averages approximately 1,000 to 1,300 passengers, significantly outperforming initial projections." Nothing you say here is untrue, but, the immediate surrounding market has already roundly dismissed the drawbacks you cite here...

I was just about to comment, this is one of those precious, fleeting moments where Archboston and UHub have effortlessly synchronized ... to utterly roast this guy for the delusional charlatan he is.

Obviously there's a consensus here (which I wholeheartedly support) to enhance Copley Square's urbanism by pedestrianizing this segment of Dartmouth Street. Let's say key personnel at the City--BTD, Planning Dept., Mayor's Office of Urban Mechanics, whoever--get behind this... where would their...

Can't blame Boston on this one! We're talking about state law here, imposed since 1990, revised [to accommodate Winthrop Center] in 2017: https://malegislature.gov/Laws/SessionLaws/Acts/2017/Chapter57

Based on my (admittedly, fairly cursory and totally non-expert) research, a 500' residential tower on this assemblage of parcels could squeeze WAY MORE than 760 comfortably sized, non-micro units into its floors: 1.) They'll have almost exactly 25,000 sq.-ft. amongst the contiguous parcels...

I've seen 'em at LaGrassa's! They were bombarding the hapless counterman with all kinds of obnoxious questions; does the pastrami taste like "the wine-dark sea"; is the chicken parm of a "suitably Homeric disposition," is there anything on the menu "of an ancient Greek flavor." It was kind of...

For what it's worth, here's the current map of landmarked buildings in the Ladder District... "eventual parcel consolidation" makes it sound like it's a foregone conclusion, when of course it's not. Check-out the history of new construction--stuff involving actual demolition, as opposed to the...

The restaurant was great; the building was always a dump--so I think it's more than a bit misleading (in fact manipulative) to say "there goes the Marliave" when in fact the restaurant has been closed since the pandemic. Nostalgia is a helluva drug but it should not hinder clear-eyed assessment...

Moderators: please consider whether this thread should be relabeled to "11-45 Bromfield Street." Yes, they are discrete projects separated by Province Street--but in fact, the ONLY thing that separates them is Province Street, according to the LOI...

Worrell and Culpepper contend that the city and MBTA can do better than bus service for Boston’s predominantly Black communities of Roxbury, Mattapan and Dorchester — where their proposed Orange Line extension would run through — which “have been promised world-class transit” for “nearly 40...