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Some might find this trivial, but to me it's incredibly irritating: I just rode in a new--I mean, truly immaculate--double-decker CR car (I assume the single-level cars are never being procured again), and the overhead lighting appears to be Gestapo Torture Cell Contemporary--a shockingly harsh...

Is this some attempt at a Field of Dreams parody? Are you James Earl Jones? If not, a friendly reminder that the 3 most universally acclaimed ballparks--Fenway, Wrigley, Camden Yards--are cherished because they are embedded in hyperdense mixed-use neighbors that exude urbanism. (Have you ever...

I think this is true, based on this depressingly illuminating Globe story from a while back. Arguably, Massachusetts has the worst of both worlds: our regional planning is toothless, given that our county-based system is impotent/purely symbolic, save for judicial-criminal-penal matters. So...

Because it's not Downtown Boston--it's the South End. Moreover, it ain't the swank, Beehive/Cyclorama area South End, either; this is the BMC/Mass & Cass part of the South End (the BMC, in particular, is less than 1,000 feet from here). Perhaps you've seen some headlines of late describing the...

There's also a wonderful old "brick-and-beam" ambiance with the former mills along this corridor--surely that "authentic" ambiance played a significant role in attracting this development, no?

To be clear--when you say, "the entire city"--you should mean the City of Newton, right? (versus, say everything inside Route 128 that SHOULD be part of Boston, but successfully warded-off annexation attempts?) Also, regardless of which municipality you mean to reference, note that Newton's...

As a postscript to my prior post: not only is 35% of the Fenway neighborhood's 215 acres untouchable, as the Fenway estuary system, but, another 5%--11 acres--is... Fenway Park itself. Which is a national historic landmark and a pending Boston Landmark, so similarly untouchable...

Yup. As much as I enjoyed his principled anti-Boston 2024 Olympics stance, this "plan to build on every available piece of land around the ballpark" conspiratorial garbage dumps him right into Howie Carr palookaville. By my measure, the Fenway neighborhood is 215 acres--at its northeast apex...

The line "plan to build on every available piece of land around the ballpark" is particularly obnoxious and irritating. Tell me you're a reactionary Boomer without telling me you're a reactionary Boomer. The insinuation is that the Red Sox are orchestrating some diabolical conspiracy to scale-up...

Comes now Dan Shaughnessy, *the dean of Boston sports columnists,* with this *certified fresh hot take*: "Nice of FSG to unveil its 5-8-year Fenway Corners plan to build on every available piece of land around the ballpark. The proposed monstrosity that would sit behind the Green Monster looks...

"Up here in Boston, I'm always defending Maryland, 'hey, the state that gave us Roger Taney, and the murder of Freddie Gray, and produced the appalling conditions and horrifying corruption that The Wire & We Own This City so searingly illuminated, it's getting better, going in the right...

Come on, this is populist ranting. Please corroborate this with links to sources that objectively and rigorously demonstrate how, exactly, they're walking away "scott free with huge bags of cash." Compared to who? Otherwise, you're just a Howie Carr-esque (or Rifleman-esque) carnival barker...

Indeed. Also, FWIW, now that the Federal St. sidewalk in front of the tower has finally reopened, you can peer into the lobby from the Federal St. entrance and gaze all the way through it, glimpsing the Devonshire St. doorways at the far side of the lobby. On sunny afternoons, it's a lovely...

I'm not at all surprised to hear... thanks for the fascinating elucidation! NOTE: recently and by sheer coincidence, I happened to discover Taiwan has an embassy in DTX just yards from Chinatown: https://www.taiwanembassy.org/usbos_en/index.html "Taipei Economic & Cultural Office in Boston"...

My understanding is that Ten Ten Day--which used to be celebrated both on the mainland and in Taiwan, but, following the capture of China by the Maoist forces in 1949, morphed into a holiday of exclusively Taiwanese identity--is a fairly big deal still in Chinatown...

I saw what you did there, sir, with your punnery--and I salute it. To get things *back on track*: remember that the abutting 9 Hamilton Pl. hotel project got approved for construction some time ago already. It will be interesting to see how these two construction projects interplay...

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What the heck are you talking about? Ultimately, it's quite trivial, but, the UHub posts make it abundantly clear that Flynn was always opposed to the proposal to push the closing hour back to 3 am. The 2nd post even included a link to the first one, underscoring that Flynn's oppositional stance...

As I noted above, the "they" in question has an absolutely abysmal track record at Faneuil Hall, and, as a result, the worst reputation/credibility gap amongst all major CRE operators in the city. (Seriously, I defy anyone to name another developer/owner in Boston that has as dismal a rep as...

Excellent suggestion, and the timing is surely fortuitous: I cannot foresee anything... really, anything... at the present moment that would inhibit the federal government from showering its subordinates at the Boston USPS Postal Annex with the necessary resources--monetary and otherwise--to...