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Re: Congress St Garage is being sold. ^Let's not start crepe-hanging just yet. There are many facets involved with this proposal that could make for a very interesting and very good development.

Re: Congress St Garage is being sold. I never envisioned anything approaching this level of density or height, but I rather like the massing. The two towers appear a bit stout, but that can be refined. It is certainly a step in the right direction, and it's a million times better than what...

Fifty years ago there were gigantic animated electrical signs all over the area. The Charles River reflected a profusion of colored lights from the Cambridge side. There was an enormous animated Anheuser-Busch sign in City Square, a Handschumacher Frankfurt sign near Faneuil Hall that...

Re: Congress St Garage is being sold. ^ Really? When you consider the amount of square footage that is to be replaced, plus the cost of the property to begin with, isn't some element(s) going to have to be taller than 24 stories?

Re: Shreve, Crump & Low bldng may be replaced w/ new develop ^ Your 2 cents is worth two trillion! Thanks.

Re: Shreve, Crump & Low bldng may be replaced w/ new develop ^ Why do we have to argue as if each situation were an either/or proposition? Sometimes opposition is only slight, and not diametrical. Sometimes compromise is in order. Let's face it, at times taller is desirable, and other times...

I can't argue with a thing you've said. Look at how nicely the building on the left wraps that corner...and then what? The problem with buildings like the second on the left, is that they don't age. They don't acquire a patina. They just get old. They just get dirty!

Re: Shreve, Crump & Low bldng may be replaced w/ new develop Keep going! Don't stop now. We're definitely getting onto the right track.

I think it's a wastebasket.

Re: BRA approves Emerson College's Paramount Center Then give us the "facts". I'd much rather be corrected than to distort the truth.

Re: BRA approves Emerson College's Paramount Center That's actually not incorrect. While all three theatres bear a great deal of similarity, the Paramount in Aurora is, in fact, closer to the design of the Paramount in Boston. A brochure that came out in the early eighties hailed Boston's...

Re: BRA approves Emerson College's Paramount Center The Paramount actually has a twin in Aurora, Illinois.....Same decor, slightly different configuration. Check out America's Stunning Theatres.

Which federal building is that?

Re: New tower at Aquarium parking garage. We are fortunate enough to have a "downtown" that encompasses downtown neighborhoods, and in that context at least the whole of the Shawmut Peninsula can be considered to make this point.

The simplest solution of all is overlooked: Increase the frequency of the trains!

Re: Filene's I believe what BOSTON02124 is referring to are commercial buildings, and there are still some fine ones there, but they are now out of context...and no, I don't think they ever surpassed anything in Boston. Detroit, however was laid out on a spectacular radial grid, so it...

I have to say it is my understanding that the T doesn't operate at anywhere near it's capacity. It hasn't been so long that we've been retrofitting stations to accommodating the longer trains that provide much greater capacity. Of course, I would love to see the development of the INDIGO line...

Re: New tower at Aquarium parking garage. Let me chime in. They also help to define the parameters of a downtown, and therefore offer a sense of the downtown's totality. As a result, in Boston from Government Center and Charles River Park all the way to the new buildings at BU, there is a...

Okay, it looks like a 1950's public housing project that somehow acquired a misplaced steeple. AND, what are those barricades doing front and center?

I don't think anyone is arguing against improved infrastructure, but please remember that the old MTA had greater ridership that what exists now, and we only had four-car trains during that time. The city also contained over two hundred thousand residents more than what it has now. There was...