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    Hurley Building Redevelopment | 19 Staniford St | West End

    This feels pretty good to me. I think 'street grid, small lots' is the best possible answer to essentially any urban planning question there is ... but unfortunately it's clear nobody in the BPA or BPDA or whatever it's calling itself under this administration has the smallest care in the world...
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    Winthrop Center | 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District

    Ha, that's exactly right. I went through it the other day as well. It's a great lobby - but absolutely nothing more. There are 4-5 places to get food, but they have highly limited hours (like 9am to 4pm) - so other than lunch for building workers and others in a tight radius nearby, even...
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    The New Retail Thread

    It really is. The notion that Fanueil Hall has more annual visitors than Disney World is total lunacy.
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    Suffolk Downs Redevelopment | East Boston/Revere

    This reminds me of nothing so much as the eyesore in East Cambridge that's thankfully now getting covered up by the NorthPoint development.
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    Logan Airport Flights and Airlines Discussion

    Haven't been to Doha, but if it's new and sleek it probably has the edge. Dubai's isn't all that great tbh. The nicest thing is the huge Emirates Lounge that takes up the entire top floor of the main terminal (not sure if it's only for business class travelers - it may be). Other than that...
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    South Station Tower | South Station Air Rights | Downtown

    Can't wait to see the next setback go up on this! Skyscraper-wise, what else might be up for the next cycle? The Aquarium Garage tower(s), assuming the city ever grows a brain ... Copley Place Tower, if we're lucky ... One Bromfield (meh) ... and the total long-shot Columbus Center (+/- any...
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    Domino Sugar Redevelopment | 425 Medford Street | Charlestown Waterfront

    Agree, this looks really good. And I guess the same developer owns 465 Medford (the adjacent site)? Will be quite the area when that gets developed as well.
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    Logan Airport Flights and Airlines Discussion

    That's great news. Vienna is an absolutely amazing place to visit. Looking forward to taking advantage of this in the coming years!
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    Shreve, Crump & Low Redevelopment | 334-364 Boylston Street | Back Bay

    Vandals. (Druker and his toadies.)
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    Sale finalized; future development of Exxon tank farm in Everett can proceed

    Seriously. Most big cities have lots of energy infrastructure around them (just look at the stretch of I-95 from the GW Bridge down to Edison NJ). I assume this won't be relocated to Winchester? :)
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    Parcel P-12 | 286-290 Tremont St | Chinatown

    Honestly think the height reduction is good for its location. Current plan looks like better architecture than the original.
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    Reserved Channel Development | 300 West First Street | South Boston

    Exactly - have had the same thought every time I see a big new development that's 80% 'lab space' going through. It's a "sh** or get off the pot" moment for Michelle Wu and all other politicians. Either do something about the huge amount of real estate development happening with very little...
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    Suffolk Downs Redevelopment | East Boston/Revere

    Nice to see someone is asking how to bring into the 21st century the failed, failed, failed ideas of 1960s urban planners who dreamed up crappy, Corbu-on-crack, tower-in-the-park buildings for the unworking masses and called them "housing projects." They've modernized that (a little) and may...
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    Harvard Enterprise Research Campus | 100 Western Avenue | Allston

    "Where everyone is welcome." I'm sorry, but this is like "Idiocracy" in implementation mode. Why is the defining idea of Harvard's engineering and enterprise campus the notion that "everyone is welcome." In fact, that's about the LEAST relevant of any platitude those fools could have come up...
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    The New Retail Thread

    Generally yes. This is much better than the (inexcusable, unforgivable) parking lot that was there for way too long. But it's also a pretty big step-down from the initial ~2019 proposal for this space. And while I don't *hate* the building we've gotten, bigger cities wouldn't settle for this...

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