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No. Melcher is #49 Melcher, owned by Archon/Goldman Properties. 316/322 Summer is owned by Lincoln Properties. FP3 is owned by Berkeley Properties at 354 Congress. The projects that were rubber-stamped got plenty of opposition, for months, and in the context of many broken BRA promises to...

My vision is sort of Jane Jacobs, mixed use, mixed people, dense, heavily residential (people actually living here, not just owning condos), fine grain, small blocks, transit not cars, democratic public spaces, government doing public work and regulation, business doing private work (Jacobs'...

I don't know where this post will appear relative to pelhamhall #38, to which it responds, as I can't seem to aim my responses to appear near the posts I'm answering (instructions welcome). The zoning here is indeed restrictive and ridiculous -- relative to the intended development, anyway...

I just saw these post by Scott, so I'll answer as best as I can remember. I hadn't been following that project closely and wasn't planning to testify at all. At the BRA hearing, I noticed that it was scaled small toward the neighborhood and taller toward the seaport. I didn't know what the...

Are there any engineers or architects on the site that could make an educated assessment of the feasibility of preserving the Shreve facades and doing adaptive-reuse of the innards? Druker said he's done a feasibility study and it's impossible because he'd have to dig down too far to support...

To underground and kennedy (1): Can you give me names of projects the BRA has rejected? I've been attending their board meetings for about a decade, and I can only remember one they croaked: the Pontevecchio-style redevelopment of the Northern Avenue Bridge, a few years ago (Joe Nigro grumbled...

Re: kennedy -- oh, literally a high school kid! ok, never mind, whoever you are. Re: anonymity on the net -- I agree, it's good to be able to speak openly without fear of political/professional retribution (I understand the parochiality only too well). I only object when it gets personal...

15 minutes of fame.... When we (three registered voters) brought this suit, we assumed, per the Open Meeting Law, that it would be settled at a hearing within ten days. We didn't even hire a lawyer, we just wrote up a complaint pro se. The Council has jerked us around for...let's see, almost...

Kressel here. In fact, Kressel is always willing to identify herself, stand up and take the heat for what she believes in (and has paid for it with her job). Who is kennedy, the architect-God? Come on, show your face to the lowly masses. And tell us why you want our money spent and our...

Re: Shreve, Crump & Low bldng may be replaced w/ new develop Another save: the Northern Avenue bridge, which Menino was determined to tear down a few years ago. Community residents managed to save it long enough for it to become useful to the VIPs, and now somehow they've managed to scrounge up...

Re: Shreve, Crump & Low bldng may be replaced w/ new develop You know, the Mayor appoints the board members, and if they cross him, he throws them off (and otherwise punishes them professionally). They knuckle under, excusing it by saying they have to stay on the board to be there for the...

Re: Shreve, Crump & Low bldng may be replaced w/ new develop The Boston Civic Design Commission will be reviewing the revised design at their meeting tonight, 5:50-6:10. It's called an "update." Sounds perfunctory -- unless someone in the audience makes them stop and think. This is...

Re: Shreve, Crump & Low bldng may be replaced w/ new develop I hadn't seen any movement from Itchy or anyone else, so I had given up on ArchBoston. I'm glad you are still interested. If you want to hatch a plan, I'll be glad to help. I lead no "minions," (contrary to sundry posts) but I'll...

Re: Shreve, Crump & Low bldng may be replaced w/ new develop Lipstick on a pig. How can we save Shreve's beautiful and irreplaceable facade? Incredible that this will happen in a historic city, in a National Historic Register district, a few feet from a City historic architectural district...

Re: Shreve, Crump & Low bldng may be replaced w/ new develop Public comments will be allowed at the 2:00 pm BRA board meeting today (this project is a "hearing" item, not just a "meeting" item) so you all have a chance to tell the City, the public and the press your suggestions for...

You probably know that the park construction has all been done by the Turnpike Authority, without private money. We're now just talking about management. I checked on this. These figures don't tell us what the real costs will be. There was a big "community benefits package" negotiated, and...