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It's kind of like the Charles Hotel, but not as pretty. Speaking of the Charles Hotel, I'm reminded of the headline from the late, lamented Weekly Week (a late 1990s local satirical paper, a la The Onion with the motto "Boston's only news source for redundant news"): "Qbert attacks Charles Hotel"

I would go a little further and divert the 350 to Medford instead of Alewife, or introduce another route that connects the 350 corridor with the Green Line via West Medford (like a 350A, North Burlington to Medford, or even a connecting route from Arlington Heights). It would likely be a quicker...

Re: Wynn Everett Casino | Everett Forgive me if I missed it, but are there any plans to extend the 93 up to the casino? As of now only the last few hundred feet of the 93 run through Sullivan Square, which, if done correctly can be remedied with a bus lane. The rest is on the relatively lightly...

Re: Wynn Everett Casino | Everett Not a bad idea. Maybe any potential B&B owners can give them cutsey, geographically themed names, IE the Tank Farm B&B, Mystic Power Station Inn, The Pension LNG, etc.

I remember that being an argument at a Selectmen's meeting in Lexington when the Minuteman was proposed. I was in high school at the time and remember my biology teacher, a Watertown native who had a thing against "snooty towns" (not to mention, Lexington was our school's rival, so I think he...

Yeah, I wouldn't classify it as "infill" so much as a replacement.

Re: Mass + Main | 415 Massachusetts Avenue | Cambridge Quest Diagnostics. I always wondered what they were doing in there. I remember walking by there one Thursday night at about 11 on sometime in the 90s while my way to ManRay and seeing people working away as if it was the most normal thing...

Presumably they'll have to implode it. That ought to at least be interesting...

And the top five floors will be made of pressed wood. (jk ;-) )

My first thought when I read that was the bar at the Crown & Anchor. I wonder who their target audience is.

I'd hate to see that. Even though it stands out from its neighbors, the 700 Tremont St fire station is a pretty decent piece of midcentury architecture. It appears to be in good shape and still quite functional.

Dunno about Delta, but I definitely flew direct to Savannah on JetBlue in March of 2014.

Re: Residences at 399 Congress St (formerly Madison Seaport Hotel) In other words, it's perfect for Florida.

Oh, those kids today! Oh, those Kids Today!

It would be the Commonwealth, since there is no county (and hasn't been one since the 1990s). Considering that several hundred million dollars was just sunk into restoration and renovation of the adjacent Adams Courthouse, this might be penny wise but very pound foolish. The central location of...

This is about the New Courthouse, at 3 Pemberton Square, not the John Adams (nee Old) Courthouse. I'm in there several times per week for business at the Land Court. Other than relatively slow elevators and loud window ACs, it doesn't seem to be in particularly bad shape.

It looks like the Dreamland Wax Museum, which is currently being built in the former Planet Fitness at 1 Washington Mall, is going to open soon.

They built it in an area with eyes wide open about the developments and potential developments being built around it. Both Trinity and New Old South have been there for well over a century.

Agreed. Beg buttons have no place in urban areas (with the exception of the occasional lightly used midblock crossings). The expectation should be that there is always someone waiting to cross.

Jeez. That is just as stupidly tone deaf as the airline's inept response. Do you do PR for them or something?