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And if somehow sea level rise doesn't flood the area in 99 years, then UMass Boston gets it back after the 99 year lease. Which is a perfectly acceptable time horizon for a University that will hopefully be around that long. Quite a good deal for Umass Boston.

And I hear there is some waterfront property along Fort Point Channel for sale..

Agreed on that point. I don't think it should be wishing for too much, but it probably is. Keeping the parking on the service alley side and getting just greenery on Binney doesn't seem like wishing for too much since it affects mostly just landscaping. Or even just cutting the parking court...

The spying issue would seem a bit overblown, but I excluded hotel uses from my suggestion for that reason. And if you have an air gap between the low rise street front building and simply make it a windowless alley between the buildings on the low rise retail sides then it isn't really a legit...

That makes no sense as an argument. If the target building is set back out of reach of any car/truck bomb blast, then the "soft target" building in front is no more of a target than the restaurant/retail around the corner.

After a bit of time to reflect... feeling the same about this. I know the building has all sorts of requirements for setbacks and vehicle access, but can't they find a creative solution to the street wall on Binney St? Seems like there is plenty of room for a row of lower rising...

Re: Site in Hub top choice for a soccer stadium Maybe the thread should just be closed... I saw activity and I thought: "Oh good another rumor or proposal that won't pan out that we can all chew on for a few days". A Boston metro sports stadium ain't happening, land, neighborhood opposition...

All the alternatives suck from an aesthetic perspective. A very narrow strip of green doesn't justify the expense of building a new elevated highway.

Thanks, really it is an old idea... the toll bridge. The concept that some infrastructure is so much more expensive and benefits particular users much more than other people that a dedicated toll would be assessed just for people crossing the bridge. So instead of going around trying to...

I agree in not picking specific companies to get tax breaks... just seems so unAmerican to go around screwing with the free market like that. That said, having tax incentives for any company in any industry that brings in outside investment without taking profits out of the state should just be...

Right, you can raise the capital for the project with a bond issue. But how do you pay back the bonds? Funding bond repayments is the problem. I was trying to answer that part of the question you weren't asking or answering, but that was implied by your idea... also the bonding part isn't...

Put it on Big Dig Parcel 12 on the Greenway... the ramp parcel. Close proximity to the merry go round and Quincy Market. And most of the buildings around there are relatively small so you will get some good views.

Certainly an improvement over the surface parking that is there now... but I wonder if the security buffer requirements could accept a row of mixed use along Binney to continue the street wall. Having parking out front along Binney really undermines what they are trying to do around there.

Prove it. I mean you are right, undoubtedly at least in part, but if you can get to a mathematical model then you could make sure the costs get distributed accurately and then you can fund growth based on projected growth that you are enabling. Too often it seems that the argument ends at if...

You realize bonds need to be paid back? Getting financing isn't the issue, it is paying it back without necessarily having to raise taxes/fares on the system/society as a whole. At least to the extent that the whole system isn't improved... I think what you kinda are getting at though is the...

Don't blame the hipsters... Hipsters are victims of middle aged marketers. I believe they were just being stereotyped and marketed to rather than coming up with those names on their own. And it is pronounced "Bahston Gahden"... especially after a game. How about The "ByGahden"?

Back when they built the White and Wang buildings it was a seriously tragic decades old mistake of architectural/landscaping design to encroach so much on the courtyard in front of the historic Bulfinch building. I think the new proposal is fine, but it does nothing to remedy that mistake...

You are reading the same thing I am reading... the pedestrian connection is under "We’re Planning", a Downtown Superstation and the Red Blue Connection and Extension to Lynn among other items are "We’re Imagining (Big Ideas)" If Red Blue Connection is listed along with extension of the Blue...

You mean the facade/architecture... yes, I like the older render. Newer bumpy design is an regrettable change.

You just ruined this for me... :)