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Re: Atlantic Wharf (formerly Russia Wharf) To clarify - I've never even been to the Atlantic Beer Garden. I just see it packed on nice days, and all the life it brings to an otherwise dead waterfront and it makes me happy. That land was been for quasi sale - but at prices that would only...

Haha - sorry, I was also menstruating. I'm a whiny bitch in the morning when I don't have coffee. I just never understand why somebody would buy a product with a slick marketing campaign but few tangible features. That's all I'm saying.

Re: W Hotel Is it me or does this building look fantastic in stylized, evening photos from certain cherry-picked angles... and then look like a short, fat, ugly piece of garbage when you actual drive or walk near it? It's got a Jekyll/Hyde thing going on. It looks HORRIBLE from 93 and...

Re: Atlantic Wharf (formerly Russia Wharf) Has anybody else seen the GIGANTIC "Mayor Menino" campaign banner on this property? Do you think the BRA will have ANY problem with what Boston Properties is asking for? But let's not let Vivien Li off the hook - this is the same elitist snob who...

Why would you have high hopes for Deval Patrick? When he ran for governor, he had no previous history of every running any major entity successfully. I don't understand these people who think people like Barrack Obama or Deval Patrick are so wonderful when there is nothing at all in their...

Re: 93 South This was the site of the gas station at South Bay Shopping Center. It is going to be a T-Mobile store, along with some other tenants, and probably offices on the top floor. Great story about this site - the owner asked if he could put a billboard up. The site faces the highway...

Re: Congress Street Garage Development I am not necessarily accusing the BRA of anything. After 16 years under Boss Menino's rule, developers know better than to make news in the months leading up to a mayoral election. It's just bad policy. I know of two developers who are holding...

Re: Congress Street Garage Development These projects are stalled due to Mayoral election. Expect news on this project (and two other projects) some time around mid-November.

Re: Fenway Center (One Kenmore, Mass Turnpike PARCEL 7) I wish i was John Keith's campaign manager, I'd cut his fingers off so he would stop arguing with this dining room table! It's just Ned! Lovable Ned! Stop taking him so seriously. I think his tin-foil hat makes him look cute. And if he...

Re: Fenway Center (One Kenmore, Mass Turnpike PARCEL 7) Anyone else want to argue with the dining room table? Ned, John has been 100% consistent on this issue, at all times. You quote references where convenient and leave them out where convenient. It's libelous at worst, juvenile at best...

This statement: "Housing built specifically for people who rely on government subsidies to live in that housing" Could be shortened into this statement: "Government housing" In the mid 1980s, people stopped using this term because it became toxic politically. Government-sponsored housing...

Pick whatever combination of pretty words that makes you comfortable. Subsidized housing Affordable housing Mixed-income housing Social housing Housing for hope Community housing Or you can eschew the public relations spin, simplify things, and call these developments what they are...

...and my brief flirtation with Mayoral candidate Kevin McCrea comes to an end. Menino for mayor! Sure, I just threw up in my mouth, but he is the best of the four candidates. How miserably sad is that? Luxury housing should go wherever the developers will get the most money for it. This will...

What election process? Back room dealings among the Beacon Hill scum will produce our next Senator. As the media keeps mindlessly repeating, it's "the Kennedy seat" not "the people of Massachusetts' seat"

OOOOOOOOPS. I didn't read the first post. Sorry. Of the five remaining I'll always love the Fed, even though it's ridiculous!

Huh? What is this "Power Five" thing? This is the power ranking: 1) The John Hancock Tower 2) Everyone else One Boston Place? Really???? Yuck.

Re: Atlantic Wharf (formerly Russia Wharf) He did not elaborate - but from what we all know the hotel operator pulled out, the partners dissolved into a very messy and acrimonious divorce and they can't sell any condos. So... um... fail. From an architectural stand-point, Battery Wharf is...

Re: Atlantic Wharf (formerly Russia Wharf) I actually asked somebody directly involved with this project he said that they're introducing brand new product to the market, so why on earth would they give it an old name? Russia Wharf was C-class office space. Keeping that name would leave a...

Re: Atlantic Wharf (formerly Russia Wharf) I am sure that Boston Properties did not want to launch a new product with an old brand. Still, I prefer the Russia Wharf name too. Atlantic Wharf is SO generic. Nostalgia aside, I guess an "Atlantic Wharf" address on law firm letterhead is bigger...

These are some of the newest strip malls in Massachusetts: Derby Street Shoppes Patriot Place Legacy Place Wayside Commons They are all automobile-based strip malls that masquerade as pedestrian-friendly lifestyle centers. But I'm not saying that's bad.