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Re: 111 Federal St. | Formerly Trans National Place (Winthrop Square) Part 2 Three questions: Would a tower of this size and location be of interest to radio/broadcasting companies? Is it possible that a radio mast could be added to the top after construction? And would the FAA allow that?

Re: South Station Tower This has to pass muster over at the BCDC before any construction can begin, right? Also, I feel there are certain similarities between this and the North Station development: equal in importance to how the tower looks is how all that new street-level stuff works out.

Re: One Seaport Square | Parcels B-C@Seaport Sq. | Seaport Yeah, I guess looking back on old renders the building with the most non-glass was always going to be Parcel C. Parcel B is really mostly just blue glass with some lining-- and the balconies and so forth-- while Parcel C has a whole...

Re: One Seaport Square | Parcels B-C@Seaport Sq. | Seaport Is standard operating procedure to seal everything up with windows and glass and then add accents and other materials to the exterior? Or is what we're seeing now pretty much what we're going to get-- another big blue glass wall.

To Shepard, who said I have to disagree: I walk the length of the greenway several times a month just for fun. Sometimes I bike it. I always enjoy myself-- don't paint in such broad strokes. I would think that at least part of the solution is simply to build up all the parcels along the...

Go to that linked map: the Tremont Crossing project is bordered, in order, by the Whittier Street Health Center, Madison Park Vocational School, Madison Park Community Center, Good Shepherd Church, Whittier St, and Tremont St. This is all fairly easy to find on the BRA page for this project...

^This is not the appropriate thread for this discussion. In fact, the thread that would be appropriate for it has been locked by the moderator because it tended to fill up with arguments without there ever being any new information added. Please don't start up those same arguments here. (I know...

Nope, just wanted to note that this will have way more of an impact on one particular spot than just about any other, and definitely way more than its impact on, say, the skyline.

Anyone know if this is the final setup for signage in this location? This sign looks way too small and out of place to my eyes. I would expect something a little more striking or eye-catching here.

This thing looms over the DOT headquarters. From inside the atrium at Park Plaza it's all you can see.

Simply incredible-- and we're not even halfway there. Hell, we're not even a quarter of the way.

I think most of us can respond in one voice to that question: The Dainty Dot Building.

The power lines do not appear in the renders for any of the developments on this page...so there's hope. Probably false hope.

Why? I understand the pecking order logic for Winthrop Square > One Bromfield, but I don't see it for One Franklin vs. One Bromfield. They're in very similar locations, proposed at very similar heights, and will be considered, in the future, as having been built at about the same time. I see no...

^My takeaways from the guidelines: they'd like whoever develops the sites to break them up into smaller parcels, possibly with new streets between them. And they've got a hard cap on height here, set at 150' on the downtown side of things and 300' on the highway ramps side, which is around the...

Second and final bike bridge was installed today on the extension of the Neponset River Greenway. I should have photos up tomorrow if I get my act together, but it was quite a project: a big, bikes-and-peds-only arch bridge over the river, lifted fully-formed into place by two cranes. Quite a...

...Too bad that call to action is over two years old. It's an article from February 2014. Plus, it got that tax break in April of that same year. And Rosenthal has still failed to deliver!

Has the T ever considered an infill stop on the Red Line between North Quincy and JFK/UMass? I've been thinking recently that there could probably be a fairly well-used stop on Morrissey Boulevard, where there is currently a Dunkin' Donuts and Subway. There may have formerly been a rail stop of...

Don't forget sharks! I saw Jaws; I know what lurks in the coastal waters of Massachusetts. I'm guessing that someone has deemed this lack-of-railing issue a low risk situation, as there has been no railing there for-- at least as far as I know-- my entire lifetime.

Re: One Seaport Square | Parcels B-C@Seaport Sq. | Seaport I'm all about bike facilities, so it's good to see this discussion going on here. But I've noticed recently that a lot of developers are using the city of Boston's 30 year bike plan to guide their decisions. That is, if the 30-year plan...