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Actually most places do have that, or are hopelessly corrupt to the point of creating a client state via corruption. Hence why there are so many poor or 'developing' nations which never seem to cease being poor or 'developing' nations. This is something which is often exacerbated by external...

Re: Liberty Mutual plans major Boston expansion Cladding might be precast limestone panels. The only difference between that and typical concrete is the composition of the aggregate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpaT8NzkLgE Just going to leave this right here.

Paging Vanshnookenraggen!

Re: New Tower(s) Planned For Prudential Center The current crop of developers are playing the long game and not looking to sell the buildings within a 10 year time frame as part of a pancake strategy. This is quite different than the build it and flip it mentality which dominated real estate...

Re: Millennium Place III | Hayward Place I'd rather be looking at raw concrete than that poor imitation of a brick wall.

BAC is moving into that building and will have a dormitory in the Trinity Financial air rights project next to Dillons.

Re: T construction news The selfishly smug denizens of JP demand their God given right to double park their Gaia saving Prius outside their favorite hip trendy commercial establishment. The streetcars, buses, and bikers, not to mention the environment, affected by this don't matter in their...

http://www.city-journal.org/2011/21_2_vandalism.html Heather Mac Donald Radical Graffiti Chic Sponsored by L.A.’s aristocracy, the Museum of Contemporary Art’s new show celebrates vandalism. Spring 2011 Drive behind the Geffen Contemporary, an art museum...

I do not recall seeing the place "open" since the late 90s.

Gabriel Over the White House on Turner Classic Movies. Gee I'm glad our betters in the media and academia don't fantasize about that kind of thing anymore. :rolleyes:

I believe it was a front for something else. Much like overabundance of nail salons in certain neighborhoods offering massage therapy. Many long derelict buildings and businesses in the South End are results of shady activity tying up the sale or leasing of the property.

The expensive settlement with the government likely put the brakes on Capital One stifling more streetscapes with dead ATMs and bank branches.

The level of membership and use was sufficient to sustain the system prior to this year's expansion. The numbers for this year post expansion have not been made available yet. http://www.bicyclinginfo.org/promote/bikeshareintheus.pdf Federal Highway Administration's guide to bike-share.

That's a newly constructed building. The previous apartments on the site were destroyed by a combination of arson and the construction of the Southwest Corridor. The apartments on the other side of the tracks, where Martin Luther King once resided, met a similar fate. Also across the street...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYS7aQY1iZI *sigh*

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos You do not want to be held in the company of the German police for any duration of time. And yes, they will hold decades old stuff against you until it is dismissed in court.

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos Step:1 Raise fine for fare evasion to $1,000 Step:2 Install card readers and hi-res security cameras at the rear door Step:3 Instate an all doors policy and periodically have transit police bust fare evaders. The high fines would pay for the...

It is quite easy to take your children to activities in the city. One simply walks out the front door and a few blocks down the street. For someone that doesn't live or seem to understand how cities operate you thoroughly enjoy dictating how urbanites should live.

Somehow I doubt we will see market rate bicycle parking when we have yet to see market rate on street parking for motorists.