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Yes, Lafayette City Center--again, it hasn't been named "Lafayette Place" for at least 25 years--is obviously not blighted. It hosts giant tech firms paying up to $70 or so PSF for tens of thousands of square feet. What giant, prestigious, well-established tech firm (as opposed to a scruffy...

Curious when you were last Downtown? LCC hasn't been named "Lafayette Place" since at least the 1990s--already in 2002 it had been rebranded as LCC. It's now filled with giant tech firms--Carbonite, Sonos, VMware, etc. I cut through its lobby frequently on the way to DTX and there's good...

Googling this, you do get quick confirmation that Ozzy did in fact engage in some less-than-wholesome behavior there. Which is now why Portland can't have the nice thing which is an outdoor pool for the... [checks Portland ME long-term climate averages] ZERO days of the year that Portland, on...

I've done around 1,000 round-trips from South Station/Providence in the past half-decade. For what it's worth (nothing), I can only recall TWO infrastructure-failure delays, with all other (relatively rare) delays on the line being accounted for by: --brush fires on the tracks during fire...

For sure... in this vein though, I would contend that the 250 Dyer proposal failed miserably. To be sure, it was a pioneer, being sited more than 300 yards south from the thicket that defines PVD's traditional downtown, clustered around Kennedy Plaza/Burnside Park. But if you're going to be the...

OK, I see what you're saying; I suppose we're just talking past each other, making different arguments. I would argue that everything I've cited IS inviting to the pedestrian, but yes, it goes without saying, I was savvy to all of the great stuff that has sprung-up in this neighborhood in the...

No. Property tax revenues fund basic municipal services, plus municipal employee pensions, infrastructure projects, etc. They don't "grow" anything, other than municipal coffers and the budgetary pie charts that illustrate rising municipal revenues. What makes cities grow is the sense that they...

Seriously, it was a bad joke--really stale, 1980s-style aesthetics. Nakatomi Plaza called; it wants its styling back.

Who cares if you do or don't already know if there's cool pedestrian bridge there? The fact is, it's there, and it makes for a substantial amenity. Along with all of the other amenities which I cited above, which you bizarrely dismiss as "literally nothing." The Narragansett Brewery is literally...

I'm not disagreeing with you, but this strikes me as a very myopic lens, in terms of overlooking--from the general public's standpoint--the stunning success that has been the overall redevelopment of the India Point/former I-195 corridor section of Downtown. Realistically, 99% of the general...

Bro, do you even bench? Clearly not--or at least, not in DTX, otherwise you'd be seeing all the hulking specimens that comprise Emerson College's legendary football powerhouse going in there constantly to get diesel. (In all seriousness, there's a very large and conspicuous "EMERSON" decal...

I was also very skeptical at first, but then I did some research: it's only 67 miles from that vantage point to the top of Mount Washington. Also, if you look at the perspective, the Presidential Range is aligned correctly, for a bearing that is almost exactly northwest. Also, there are other...

Harvard gonna Harvard. As this pretty informative Crimson piece notes, Harvard definitely used strawmen agents ("In 1997, Harvard announced it had secretly obtained 52 acres of land...") to buy-up land in Allston in the 1990s. A lot of people know about the abovementioned . . . but before...

JP Morgan took control of of the New York New Haven railroad sometime around 1903 and thus acquired ownership of the brand-new South Station. A key tactic in his overall railroad war strategy vs. the Boston & Maine (then controlling North Station) was to never allow for a conduit track to be...

Yeah, having gotten on and disembarked at Wickford about 10 or so times in that decade, it's been a uniformly depressing experience, given how woefully underutilized it's been. 120-minute trips to Boston and adjacency to central RI's population hole can do that... but then, during the pandemic...

Ah, thanks for the clarification--now I see what you're getting at. Maybe there's a footnote or brief reference in the 11 Bromfield proposal iteration about why they decided to rebrand from "1 Bromfield" to "11 Bromfield"? It is confusing (if one forgets that the 1 Bromfield iteration was...

A reminder of the *benevolent sponsor* of said bifurcated rail termini travesty:

You mean the one the BPDA commanded to be scrapped in 2016--that 683-footer? Yeah, doubtful it's coming back... ;)

The rough midpoint between Lego in Assembly Square and Lego at 501 Boylston St. (which doesn't appear like it's slated for consolidation into the new offices) would be somewhere on the Orange Line between North Station/Chinatown... which of course leads to the logical, modest proposal: perhaps...

Whenever *they* decide to make a noir, "true crime"-style documentary investigating the horrendous (mercifully non-fatal) arson that completely incinerated the Edison development in summer 2017, which I was eyewitness to (at the time I resided just 1,000 yards away), this should be the blurb...