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It's an unlit version of the Bank of America Plaza in Dallas

I've traveled to all 3 cities you mentioned and apart from SF, NYC's MTA and Chicago's CTA is miles ahead of the MBTA. The idea that people would be "stoked" about having a public transit like the MBTA is such a YMMV, that declaring that has zero value. All I can say is, in the past year, the...

Bruh, what the heck are you talking about? At no point did I say Boston doesn't need tall buildings. I've only said suggested in this forum that basing the entire value of a tower to a city solely on height is stupid. Boston can build tall tower. If it doesn't hit 1000ft, fine. A lot of the...

This is the fallacy that seems to permeate a lot of members in Archboston. Just because a city has a large area does not mean it needs to use it up. For a group of anti-sprawl activists, y'all seem quick to criticize whenever a city decides not to build another suburban neighborhood by building...

I'm not projecting my own snark, rather I'm replying with snark because your post is clearly phrased to be snarky. But I'll answer your honest question. First, a supertall and an urban fabric is not mutually exclusive. Anyone telling you that is just plain lying. Second, there are people who...

Uh because there's demand for luxury high rise condos in a city that has been a rising tech hub and attracting talents from major cities along the east coast and silicon valley for the past decade? What kind of snarky question is this?

Possibly a longer term "flattening of income" trend if it's people remoting from Maine and working for a Massachusetts firm. Doesn't even have to be a transplant. A lot of companies have open up to hiring remotely as it gives them access to a larger and more diverse labor pool. This also makes...

Not sure if I'm showing my age here but back in the early 1990s, I remember distinctly that on Sundays, the Orange line ran with 4 car sets while the rest of the week, they ran on 6 car sets. Hence it's been done before but possible no one currently on the MBTA was there when it happened...

Austin is planning a 2nd supertall and the tallest in Texas: https://www.wilsontower.com/ The other one is the Waterline

Is there a way for the Orange line to run in 4 car sets rather than 6 so that they can run with increased frequency but lower capacity?

Ah finally, a win for the short child sized folks like me over the tall people

I can provide my POV since I stayed at my brother's place who used to live in the Seaport. There are a lot of fun adult things to do in the Seaport now. Clubs, bar, restaurants, bowling alley, movie theater, mini-golf, parks, shopping, museum, all of which are just mere steps away. A lot of...

Sorry for the enormous blank spaces in my post. Archboston is glitching out on mobile

Likely density. If you walk around Manhattan, you'll realize the shortest structure on each block is probably something like 10 stories. In addition, every single family house, on average, likely occupies a smaller area than those you see in Boston

Too bad they couldn't rehab that building like the AMP building in Sydney

But isn't there a shortage of family units because people bunking up are taking them up? Seems like you're looking at this from a complete vacuum. Take a step back will ya

I think something that is interesting is while Boston punch above it's weight in terms of life science, it is severely below average in terms of Fortune 500 companies which to me is likely due to its proximity to NYC. Just something interesting to note

I didn't read it as snarky at all. That being said, I guess my question is how well suited are individual property owners to build and manage multi-family housing? An undertaking like that essentially means managing a new business for the property owner, some of which probably do not want to do...

Good luck. The shortage is compounded by large real estate investors buying up homes and charging exorbitant rates because renters have no other option as well as wealthy Americans and foreigners buying up real estate as second homes or to rent out on airbnb as passive income. The US can't...