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And my point is that it should be doomed unless there is a tangible benefit to the public. I think there is potentially a very narrow window of opportunity where a congestion charge actually reduces congestion enough to help and/or raises enough money for transit improvements to help. The...

It would have been relatively easy and preferable to plan on keeping the MGH professional office building (or at least the Cambridge St Facade) and just build behind it. I really dislike that the plan is to knock down one of the nicer looking buildings on their property in order to replace it...

Build either. Just build.

There were only $50 table minimums opening week. I think I heard about there being some $15 this week during the week, so perhaps it is settling down a bit. Peak times are always an issue though, even in Vegas the top casinos often go to $25 during weekend peak.

Once One Congress is up there will be a lot of economic and political pressure to redevelop that surface parking lot and bring more ground level activity and restaurants to the square.

Well, anyway.... it is not our proposal. It is Encore's proposal to put a new station there. If they can work with the stakeholders to get it done then it seems like a good idea to me. Then this development area gets a direct rail service and also if the pedestrian bridge moves forward then...

Thanks for the discussion... I apologize if I missed this, but is there a regulation that prevents a crossover along a station platform?

Now just go ahead and raise One Congress up another hundred feet in his honor. ;)

Makes me wish they would rename the bank "Congress Bank" just to sync up with the new iconic location.

That this view is considered radical is part of the problem in my view. Just frustrated by the build-baby-build mentality in the face of obvious infrastructure limitations. Build first fix the infrastructure later is a recipe for hitting a brick wall that could take Boston metro backwards...

Trying to squeeze more capacity out of our existing infrastructure is just going to induce more demand and won't help reduce congestion. And expanding transit is cost prohibitive. Metro Boston is just built out. I am mostly just trolling, but yes our infrastructure has clearly reached...

We need a halt to new construction anywhere inside 495

They already sold to Wynn. Wynn owns a corridor along the tracks behind the Everett Shops which is where they show the "proposed commuter rail and silver line station". See page/slide 16.

Re: Commonwealth Pier Revitalization (née Seaport WTC)| 200 Seaport Boulevard | Seapo I also hadn't seen the harbor side elevation before... they are cutting off the harbor end and putting up an almost completely glass facade. Opens up the building to the harbor.

In this case, I think there is a bit of both sides going on here. Why are they tearing down the building with the cool facade? And why are they forcing the landowner to keep a gas station sign that is really just a few decades old? Best that can be said is that people can be so...

I don't know for sure, but it sounds like some regulatory hoop. Parking spaces are probably required by some regulation and it was always the intent not to include parking, but they had to hold a hearing and vote on something.

In the future, might be good to just have "tags" as the primary way to organize threads instead of separate forums at all. Let people tag however they want. I tend to miss interesting discussions when I don't drill down into the right forum. "New posts" plus tags would good way to view...

Yes, at least taken alone I could see it going taller to give it better proportions, but also I think that in its current context it would have been a bit overwhelming at the edge of MIT campus to go much taller. Better to step up a bit to taller buildings at Volpe. The building does pretty...

Have to say... like it with some lighting and some angles and not others... which is really a pretty cool effect from the angled panels. I wonder if there is like a certain angle of the sun that will make some cool pattern we haven't seen yet.

I think the alternative plan would have been to just cap it, make it look green and then let it erode into the Mystic over the next 100 years... slowly contaminating the ecosystem even more than the Mystic river is already contaminated. I am all for parks, but there wasn't even available...