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I somewhat agree... but mostly in the placement of BU's building. I think BUs building looms over the Morse Auditorium which is a former synagogue apparently meant by the architect to be a small scale version of the Temple of Solomon. I hold religious buildings of all faiths and religions...

Target completion of new Volpe is 2022, so 5 to 6 years for redevelopment of Volpe seems like a good bet right now.

If it could be sold for a windfall I would agree. I just don't see that happening. They are positioning this for a $250 million dollar deal at best and I don't see that as anything less than a toss away when we can't build a full replacement in a less desirable location for less than $650...

Looking even more forward to the rise of the Volpe skyline now.

I am not anti sale of the Hynes. I just hear alarm bells when I hear a government agency disparaging its own property to justify a fire sale.... citing $200 million in repairs. Like I said before. If they get $650 million I think it is worth it. If they get $500 million I wouldn't object...

Partially fund construction of a new facility... With 8% net loss in floor space which will undoubtedly lead to a loss in convention revenue. Not to mention the loss from the potential gap between sale of the Hynes and opening the new expansion. Those are the bottom line numbers for me to say...

Wheeling and dealing in the private sector is the free market at work... wheeling and dealing with the law and with public resources undermines the rule of law, undermines our democratic form of government and is a threat to Liberty. That said yes, there is corruption wherever there are...

Agree it works well... not sure I would say "ingenious" in an original way since it is very similar to the facade of the "BU Center for Memory and Pain" building. BU building has a different color, but similar in the way it uses a material that has a shade of color similar to some nearby...

Cry me a river... the process is designed for shaking down rich people to fund machine politics. It is set up as an adversarial system so lawyers, consultants and influencers get paid and funnel money back to the party who in turn create the system in such a way as to invite conflict. They...

The whole point of the convention center is to bring in out of state revenue to the city that otherwise would go to other cities in other states. The math gets a bit fuzzy on where the net benefit really is on the current taxpayer investment, but a deal where there is a bottom line reduction...

I generally don't have any objection to selling Hynes... or selling/privatizing the convention center (and eliminating the hotel tax that subsidizes it) for that matter... as long as it was done in an orderly way to maximize taxpayer's investments and provide a net benefit to the local economy...

All the talk about how much of an opportunity this is when air rights parcels, even ground parcels and other less dense buildings are available a few hundred feet away or in the area. This just doesn't add up. I look at the Hynes and I see a building fulfilling its intended purpose which could...

Not the only question, because the state is also going to have to spend money at BCEC to expand and will presumably make about 8% less revenue overall even after that expansion because of less floor overall space, and would lose out on several years of conventions after sale of the Hynes and...

I appreciate a good sales job... he is turning all the constraints of the site into positives, which is important to getting the thing built, but the truth is that regardless of the proximity to Boston and the two Blue Line stations this location doesn't have the additional necessary attributes...

I very much like the idea. It seems like a very natural next step redevelopment wise. Just raze K-Mart and extend the Assembly Row city block type development through where KMart used to be. And I like the pedestrian extension of Canal St straight through to connect it all together more...

A couple new angles today

I think you are right. I am more concerned about the surrounding municipalities acting through the state government and media to stall additional development. I think you have already seen the type of slow down tactics from competing interests. With grumblings from local interests about how...

I think they have been quoted as saying as much in recent articles... that is exactly right: They are land banking, creating parking and do have an intent if not yet a plan for additional development on those properties. It is an opportunity (and also a risk). The opportunity is that there is...

If there is one thing I have liked about Boston/Cambridge architecture it is the juxtaposition of the the old and new. Whether the structures are "historic" or not I really like the look and feel of these pedestrian scale buildings with their street level facades. There are simply some...

It's a strange new world.