Recent content by shmessy

From Billy Don Schaeffer to Kurt Schmoke to so many others after - - I’ve seen a lot of “Baltimore is coming back” slogans. Markets are efficient. There’s a reason for the those prices. I’ve lived in SW Baltimore, Catonsville, Ellicott City and now upper Montgomery County. I’ve been Charlie...

I said the same thing about Baltimore when I moved there 38 years ago……..rampant crime counts.

Oh yeah, that building and window pattern really catches the “character” of the North End :sneaky: Seriously, a big FUCK YOU to those responsible for this.

LOL, well done!! I see what you did there in relation to the video in the post just above yours. Not sure everyone got your sarcasm!

. Good!!!! Step aside, Mayor Jeanette McCarthy - Progress is coming through! https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/04/business/waltham-council-mayor-housing-override/

....not to mention the stone/brick? work on that front patio. AND the beautiful smudged orange traffic cones standing and lying at the upper left hand corner of that patio picture. Oooh, oooh, and the chain link fence around the property!!! Chef's Kiss! Nothing says "Hospitality" more...

I was gonna make a similar point about bringing a friend or two and take turns who sleeps...... This hotel/building creates questions.

You pics are wonderful - - but THAT building will never “makes sense”.

Ah, that makes sense.👍

Perhaps you didn't READ the article, because you have it 100% backwards. "........Many office buildings are now vacant, and their owners are asking Waltham for tax abatements. This year, the city raised its residential tax rate by 5 percent to account for lost revenue." Seriously, you could...

That's some sobering news.......:(

"......Hanley added that while he has no guess how much the market-rate units will go far, they will not be marketed, or priced, as the sort of luxury units that have gone up in large numbers over in the Seaport a few blocks away. "There's a lot of luxury housing" in the area, but not a lot of...

Figure of speech humor, Chris, like the oceanfront real estate in Iowa. The point was ‘anything looks good with an open air market on it’. Just look at that Cisco Brewers Seaport. An open air market is the best pig lipstick there is. But seriously, the Design-By-Committee Copley Square Plaza...

The Haverhill Star Market parking lot looks like paradise when you put a farmers market on it. How does it look the other 95% of the time?

Well said - thank you!(y)