Recent content by shmessy

Look, I admire the INTENT. And I feel badly for the good people at Sasaki who tried here. The problem, imho, is that it doesn't know what it wants to be. The old saying "A giraffe is an animal created by a committee" works here. It does several things halfway - -plaza? lawn? tree lined bench...

However, I see no man with a gun over there, a-tellin' me I got to beware.

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Cool!!!!! Which one were you???

The detail, window patterns and geometry of this building is what sets it apart from simply one of those Ken Doll sheets of blue glass. Love this!

Thank you for that close-in perspective. I hear you and empathize. My question from 10,000 million miles away, is what kind of remediation Watertown/developers give you?? Would they help with a temporary location and then have your laundromat on ground floor of a multi-story residential...

I agree- you're probably onto something there - too much of a coincidence. But, maybe, Boston is growing up and becoming a real city? I don't care what the origin of the idea is - - I just am in favor of increased urbanity. More housing units, more 24/7 dynamic? Bring it on. Enough with...

This building DESERVES to be 100% booked up. What a magnificent imaginative design. Such a shame it was programmed for lab.

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The buildings are there - - - but they self-contain .....more to the point that street NEEDS ground-level activation with shops/restaurants/humanoid things - - otherwise it is just a series of Mars Biospheres.

Agreed - - the only thing different in that particular shot,vis a vis, a Spanish research campus is the lack of dynamic life and actual humanoids at street level. That particular street is a ground-level ghost town.

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There's already a free-market term for "vacancy tax". It's called "Lost revenue". Instead of instituting another new tax, the solution would be to tighten up the real estate loss benefits in the tax code.

Because ALL construction is difficult since the pandemic - - material prices are through the roof - - you don't see any labs or offices being built either, do you? Just getting ANYTHING built right now needs an extra push - - this just happens to help the overall civic urbanity more than the...