Search results

Please explain the difference? Reducing automotive gridlock improves the lives of pedestrians, bikers and the public transit users that have to walk to/from the stops, or that take the bus. Automotive gridlock (with the ensuing noise and pollution) does not improve a city's downtown in any...

I am generally an easy-going, laid back guy with a sunny disposition. I don't know what about this board brings out my inner angry old man... but here's another thing that has me going absolutely bonkers, it's a national headline from today (7/16): JPMorgan 2Q profit jumps 36 pct, topping...

Re: Shreve, Crump & Low bldng may be replaced w/ new develop Seaport Center is an old brick warehouse building with gigantic floor plates. It's the red brick building on D Street that Menino gave $3-4million of our tax money to billionaire Robert Beal, so that JP Morgan would move there. "Hey...

iPhone 3G I'd love for somebody with some real photo equipment to capture that same double Clarendon shot - looks like a medieval castle to me from that angle!

Re: The Boston Arch (Aquarium parking garage) I love Don Chiafaro - he's a nut. A Boston nut. He looks at Menino and can barely hold his lunch down. Just like all other Boston developers. But instead of groveling at the faux-altar of this big dumb stooge, Chiafaro calls him out for what he...

Re: Russia Wharf I love how on this board we get so excited to see some "skin pics" and we're such dorks it has nothing to do with nudity! I saw the little patches of skin on Russia Wharf last night - looks good. Also, 99 High Street (the honeycomb building) suddenly is sprouting green glass...

Re: Shreve, Crump & Low bldng may be replaced w/ new develop In the past ten years the Back Bay has become equally (if not more) desirable to the Financial District for blue-chip, Class-A tenants. And there's a huge disparity in supply. So Class-A office space in the Back Bay is pure gold -...

I'm reading all these laudatory obits for BCN, and honestly - everything these reporters are saying that BCN was, FNX currently is. I saw a media study recently, and I can't remember the exact numbers - so bear with me - but on a given weekday the amount of different rock and roll songs that...

The Hancock looks like a big blue ice cube slowly withering, melting and tilting in the summer heat.

Trippy. Shitty cameraphone, but I'd bet one of the camera pros on here could take a shot like this that would be pretty kick-ass.

Haha - Statler, I love it!

Re: The Boston Arch (Aquarium parking garage) I am sure Boss Menino will send a crew of his shady henchmen from the ISD to have the sign removed within the week. I'm sure Chiafaro knows this too. Thus, the cheap (probably in the $5,000 range) "X" sign vs. a $50-$75,000 full-color...

Hey intern/journalist, the correct name is "Seaport District" - even Boss Menino uses it now. Somebody tell this kid that Jimmy Kelly died and we don't have to use 'SBW' any more!

I read through your site... sounds good, but as somebody who's worked on these things in the past, let me give you some free advice: I go to your website and I have to do work to find out about you. That's a problem. I need to know your brand upfront, within the first fifteen seconds on your...

Beware of politicians with statistics! That might sound like a lovely figure, but without even whipping out a calculator I can blow it to pieces... The land the parks sit on may be worth $100M. So the decision to have parks cost Massachusetts $100M. Perhaps the Pike's PR people created a...

Again, a little devil's advocate here... but do you think Equity would consider the West End a failure? The new building, a little glass stump on Storrow Drive broke the record for the highest PSF rent ever attained in the city of Boston. Is that a failure or an incredible success? Is the fact...

You are right - I was playing devil's advocate, as I often do. I just feel like nobody speaks up for automobiles in today's society, even though they are a completely integral part of our human life in 2009. The Seaport District is incomplete. It will be ten years until we can even get a sense...

Not at all. I'm talking about a modern city, the 21st Century city - that allows for cars, bikers, walkers, subways, etc. All together, all nicely and smartly. It seems like today's architects only know how to sacrifice one for the other. In other words, it doesn't have to be 128 office park...

Not true - I'm talking about for work. The Back Bay is not the best place to work. Business leaders will tell you this. I find it amazing - crazy even - but it's true. The best place to work is right near South Station. This isn't opinion, this is what market forces have dictated. Only within...

You wrote that May 27th... now it looks like there's a hole in your plan. Don't fret, I heard LaToya may be available, Tito too.