Recent content by FrankG

My understanding is that there is going to be a single garage for the complex. Right now they're doing work on the One Marina Park Drive garage to merge it with the others. This is based on what the construction dudes told me, so take it for what you will.

I work in One Marina Park Drive and the work this week has been really noticeably loud. I love watching the heavy equipment do its thing, though.

I’ve begun tweeting a daily photo of the construction of the new Fan Pier buildings to record the progress. (My office overlooks the construction site.) Take a look if you are interested: http://twitter.com/#!/fanpierpix

Fallon (the developer) has an office there, and MassChallenge is there as well: http://www.masschallenge.org/

I like what I'm reading in that article!

Re: Filene's I'm listening to them right now! I suppose I could shut the windows, but the summer breeze is so pleasant...

The last paragraph of this article explains that I and J used to be interchangeable letters: http://www.snopes.com/history/american/jstreet.asp

Because it will encourage people to use the electronic lanes which flow much faster. I think tolls tend to be unpopular because of the slowdown, not just because of the cost.

I wonder if Detroit "is dead and will never come back." Aren't they planning on bulldozing parts of that city too?

Not a perfect comparison, but it's just as bizarre that the Seaport is still mostly empty lots.

It also seems like there is an O street missing in that first set -- Jersey, Kilmarnock, Lansdowne, Marlborough, Newbury, O?, Peterborough, Queensberry. Was Van Ness Street ever called anything else?

Wasn't there an episode where they went to Boston to ride the Los Angeles subway?

I smell an investment opportunity!

Following up on the discussion of Lowell, here is an interesting article: Planning firm seeks to recast Lowell as a where place you can live without a car ?I think of Lowell as a city-state,?? Speck said. ?I don?t think of it as a suburb of Boston, or even related to Boston. It wasn?t created...

http://boston.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2010/04/12/daily21.html