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St. Germain near the Christian Science church? I'm thinking somewhere closer to the Fenway area...

Re: Columbus Center There is a lot more to be said. This is Boston after all. What I find most interesting is that Beal/Related had a look at the books and have also decided that it is not finance-able or build-able as planned. They would know since they are in the middle of marketing the...

The Menino Desert. Nothing grows among its wind-swept expanses but the occasional stump. Hideous. A hideous legacy of a failed Mayor. All of it.

I wish they had wrapped the entire ugly garage.

Is there a resource where I can easily find all the LEED Gold and LEED Silver buildings in the City of Boston? IS there some kind of database either with the BRA, City of Boston, or with the USGBC? I can't seem to find anything. Spanks!

Re: new hotel proposed- Albany St Did the article get it wrong? Blue Hawk and Normandy are partners on the Hotel Indigo in Newton. Could it possibly be that Blue Hawk has a different "Normandy" partner here? Doubtful. Unless the article itself was wrong.

If our universal health care plan is so great, why haven't the other 49 states jumped on board with their own plans? We were told it would drive down costs. It has not. Fail. Why multiply failure on a national level? 0 X 350,000,000 = 0

Think about this: Scott Brown will be one of the most powerful people in the United States when he is elected. The people who control power in this country are centrists like Olympia Snowe, Sue Collins, Joe Lieberman, Max Baucus, Ben Nelson and Blanche Lincoln. Add Scott Brown to that mix...

Every single Joe Fallon development is on this list. All near the top of the list. Seems he wins "Worst Developer of the Decade" award, hands down. For that, of course, da' Mayuh awarded him the coveted Fan Pier parcels. He certainly lived up to his reputation there!

Martha will win, but Scott Brown has already won. He was expected to be a gentleman's loser with 35% of the vote. 40% would be considered nice. The fact that he may well get 45% of the vote is cataclysmic for the Democrats. They are squandering resources that they will need badly in November...

Yes... and no. A buyer of a $1.5M brand new construction condo has limited options. And if they want to be in the Back Bay... they have one option. This one. The finishes inside this building are Boston's best. Probably ever. Far better than the Mandarin, which has been plagued with...

Agreed... but it's still an interesting case study how an architect can spend time designing a building to interact with the streetscape and its neighboring buildings, balance with its surroundings, etc... and then have all that architectural theory thrown into the garbage because some yahoo is...

There is a wonderful back-story on the design of the Clarendon that makes it the most perfect symbol of development in Boston... The original drawings/plans for the building show the bulky lower wing that now fronts Clarendon Street was actually always meant to be the side facing towards...

Re: Fenway Center (One Kenmore, Mass Turnpike PARCEL 7) I literally cannot fathom how somebody who is so scared of traffic exhaust can stand to live directly next to a gigantic traffic artery. If I was this unreasonably scared of car traffic exhaust, I would live far, far away from a highway...

One Marina Park Drive will probably go down in history as Boston's largest and most spectacular commercial real estate failure*, and there are 8 additional parcels to build on. They could afford to give one to a temporary store. Nothing else is going to be built here for many, many years. At...

Here is an article in the local section of Boston.com. My take is that people used to like small downtowns, but now don't. "Boo-hoo" say the small downtowns, "government should ban things that people actually like and instead force them to buy our less-popular products." I must say however...

PJ O'Rourke explains democracy thusly: "Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us."

Flashing LED lights, dizzying effects, giant wall graphics and sexy, in-your-face billboards... all for a lonely little office stump on the outskirts of downtown. It reminds me of a frumpy accountant getting tarted up for his big night on the town in Vegas. Cut through the clatter, and it's...

For those who don't know KISS is "Keep it simple stupid" I think "this bill is anti-green" is fairly simple. If you don't build near the T lines, then people drive. Therefore we need to build near the T lines. My over-riding point was "this bill is anti-business" is actually seen as an...

Oh, they can say a lot of things. Nothing will end the argument. But "this bill is anti-business" I don't believe helps. These people are vehemently anti-business, most of them are trust-funders, stay-at-home-moms, over-educated and/or under-employed. So I'd go "anti-green" on them instead of...