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"The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee, but why this is more stylish than sitting inside and drinking large glasses of whiskey I don't know." PJ...

Fun with the Lenny... more to come... lousy iphone pics.

Love that Macallen picture. It really dramatically shows why luxury buyers have said "no thanks" to living in that perplexing industrial-like building.

Re: Filene's I wonder if Boston could take by eminent domain just a small sliver of the site. They could say they want to build a walk-way and break up the super-block into two smaller, developable blocks. This sliver cutting across the site would not cost Boston $200M, but it would...

Dorchester's biggest problem is a branding problem. We are talking about a part of the city that is larger than: - South Boston - South End - Back Bay - Beacon Hill - North End - Chinatown - The Fenway ... and Charlestown Combined. The problem is the "Dorchester" brand name is tainted. On...

John - as a fellow Dorchester resident (Uphams' Corner/Savin Hill area) I agree with much of your assessment. I responded to ablarc's post about Boston being free from "grit" with a similar reaction. Dorchester is a wonderful place, I really love it. I love living in an old 7-BR Victorian...

I would lift all limits on liquor licenses. They are all controlled by seedy characters like the Lyons Group and other bar-conglomerates anyway. A little guy who wants to open a restaurant doesn't have a shot in this city. Getting rid of the liquor license caps would help make Boston a little...

^Is that the building that has Jose McIntyre's? Right by the Custom House tower and Beal's Granary Exchange building?

Re: Filene's I can tell you this - even if Voranado was swimming in hundreds of millions of dollars worth of cash, they STILL wouldn't fix the Filene's Hole. You don't build anything unless people want to pay you rent to support it for the long-term. That's just how it works, otherwise...

It's not just the trailer park on the roof, or the fact that they painted the red brick a blue/gray... you have to see this building's ground floor... they have corrugated concrete and over-polished concrete finishes.

I love that picture of 1 PO Square! It looks like the top was knocked aside in an earthquake or something. Very "earth after people" feel to that shot.

Re: Filene's Ron's got a good point on Japan - not only is ultra-capitalist Japan more successful than communist China, but in Japan if you spend all night writing angry anti-government diatribes, you are more likely to end up on the editorial pages of the newspapers than a gulag cell.

Re: Filene's I will try to tread lightly here and not offend anybody. But having been to China recently, I am assuming that the "stunning results" that you speak of include unspeakable, unimaginable pollution, and a population literally enslaved by its leaders. Imagine a world where posting...

Re: Filene's Or does the city have Hynes by the balls? His company has a long line of recent real estate failures. He is holding the Seaport Square parcels. There's no reason to believe that Hynes' company is going to survive this recession given his bone-headed marketing and tone-deaf ear...

Yes, you are absolutely right. But, the West End doesn't have almost any condos. There is West End Place, and there are a few mangy old towers towards the FleetCenter. One of which is subsidized. The overwhelming vast majority of living choices in the West End is in Equity's West End...

alright, alright... I was trying to be poetic. The El doesn't "rumble overhead" but there is a major elevated train line that is so loud it's hard to talk when you're haggling with a street vendor selling frozen steaks from the pack of a pick-up truck while a friend of his looks around for cops...

And we're talking rents - not sales prices. Sales prices are higher in Beacon Hill. That stat is readily available on MLS. Not so sure about rentals. Beacon Hill lacks luxury rentals. Just a few units checkered throughout the condo associations and some of the Suffolk slums along Joy Street and...

We're both right... sort of... I know that the rent at one unit at the West End broke the rent/SF record in the city. Whether or not average rents in Beacon Hill are higher than average rents in West End is not what I'm saying. I don't know the answer to this. I do know that only one...

You realize that as you sit here and debate the urban qualifications and design philosophy of this apartment complex, nobody in the general public really cares. West End Vesta recently shattered the rent/SF record in the City of the Boston, was fully leased prior to opening, with a back-log...

Ablarc, as much as I typically love all of your posts, I have to let you know what my very first reaction to the first post here was: "rubbish" I live in Dorchester. Come visit Field's Corner with me. Let's get my inspection sticker done at the chop shop and talk to the garage flies that...