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Re: North-South Rail Link All due respect to DePaola for his experience and service to Massachusetts, but his quote at the end shows he fundamentally does not understand what gets unlocked locally with NSRL and is hung up on Duakis - who I think drives this point way too hard - touting the...

I cannot stop singing praises for this renewed modern civic gem. It warms my heart and makes me proud for this city.

And making that quarter of Apple UFO tastefully urban and less greenwashing, sprawling, insular, suburban tech campus... Bravo - I like the outdoor room an L-shaped building like this would form with the Third Square Apartments. I'd love to see the new Volpe Center you propose to actually form...

Street wall on Boylston Street is coming along nicely: New craft beer store - Craft Beer Cellar on the Van Ness St side of the Van Ness development - to add variety to the beer offered at Target upstairs. Nice narrow stall; hopefully the rest of the block fills in with the same type of retail...

Re: Skanska Fenway Project (Burger King) | 1350 Boylston Street | Fenway Photos from this evening... not a lot of change from 5 days ago...: Two cranes:

Sorry for waking this thread from its slumber. Took some detail photos of the development and wanted to share them somewhere relevant: RGB LED accent lighting on Van Ness Street:

Photos from walking anti-clockwise around the site this evening with some street wall photos for context:

MassDOT and Massport are already looking at their options for scaling up airports across the Commonwealth in anticipation of rising sea levels that put Logan in jeopardy. Hanscomm being turned into one of Boston's new primary international airports isn't too far off the mark. I'll echo what...

Foundation is coming along:

Re: Congress Street Garage Development | West End No discernable progress from the outside (didn't have time to swing through the inside to take pics), but the sunset was particularly kind to everything concrete and ugly this evening: I really can't imagine this looking any different...I'm...

Re: Longfellow Place (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End Hey guys, garage looked beautiful this evening. I think we should call off the project. We can't afford to lose classic, pre-millennium architectural heritage like this:

This feels like it's crawling:

The sunset city porn glamour shots continue... facade detail, underpass progress, street-level glass: Nearby - Lomasney Way bollards are now completely in place. Wider sidwalk is appreciated but does nothing for the vacuum of this space and placement of the bollards is a missed...

No updates? Okay, have some from this evening - slurry wall appears almost complete for them to begin excavation: Nearby - work on Causeway Street is coming along. Bollards are now in place in front of the federal building, basically making up for all of the sidewalk being consumed by...

From this evening...realising that it's not different from my last pic, minus the crane. I guess we're now in the slow home stretch where it'll take a million years for this to fully button up as work accelerates inside:

Re: The Merano (Parcels 1B & 1C) | Bulfinch Triangle | West End From my walk around the neighbourhood this evening:

Some street-level details during a walk around this evening: Glass for retail looks very reflective, but I'm not sure if that's simply because the interior's not lit, there's some removable film on the glass or something else. I'm still very concerned this corner will continue being...

Here's your destruction porn of the day - click through for the full hi-res pics on Imgur. I tried to get photos of the interior for the enterprising architectural archeologists trying to figure out the state of infrastructure behind the facade to be preserved:

Yeah, now that I think of it, this is a big reason why I've been hesitant to chime in with all the concerns about the loss here. The majority of modern development on Broad Street has been respectful of the architectural heritage and integrates preserved/restored facades. This development...

Re: One Seaport Square | Parcels B-C@Seaport Sq. | Seaport Nothing substantial was included in the inter-agency South Boston Waterfront Sustainable Transportation Plan that I and a number of other residents and advocates participated in. It was nevertheless frustrating that even our best plans...