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Question on the cancelled Copley Place tower: Here's a tall, fully permitted luxury condo project in one of the most desirable spots in Boston, that overcame intense neighborhood opposition and is grandfathered in against the new shadow laws "protecting" Copley Square. I would think...

Laptop ban has been lifted for Turkish, Emirates, and Etihad. Sounds like Qatar's ban will be lifted soon too. https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2017/07/05/dubai-emirates-turkish-airlines-off-laptop-ban-list/9IoXQtfcnVayyIIZwwGE7L/story.html I wonder if this will entice Emirates to bring...

Re: SBWTC /South Boston Waterfront Transportation Center/Seaport/ S Boston ^ Cambridge Center garage roof is nice, but note how the first two examples are full of people and the third.. isn't. We can do better.

Re: SBWTC /South Boston Waterfront Transportation Center/Seaport/ S Boston Why is it that in the US we have such a painfully limited view of what a parking garage can be? It really doesn't take much of an effort to turn this into a net asset for urban vitality... Exhibit A (parking garage in...

I see the MIT designation as a trade-off. MIT is less likely to build tall here than a more traditional developer would be. But on the other hand they are more likely to push the envelope architecturally. If they can tap into their vast design talent and deliver on the latter, give me MIT any...

Here's a question for all you arborists out there: decades from now, can we expect the Greenway's trees to grow to a size comparable to those on the Comm Ave Mall? Or are their roots too constricted by the tunnel running underneath?

-1 Come on guys, the negative overreaction on this board lately is really getting annoying. Is this complex perfectly conceived? No. Is it more original and distinctive than 99% of what's gone up in this city recently? Absolutely. I'll take this over the generic boxes we get in Kendall Sq...

What's the point of commuter rail service to Union Square? It's not an employment center, tourist center, or transfer point. Commuter rail would do nothing to serve the needs of the neighborhood (frequent connections to inner-city destinations) while slowing down trips to/from the suburbs. I...

Leaving Boston off the map is just a visual typo. Blame the intern. They plan on building a next generation, national transportation network that somehow misses the country's sixth-largest CSA? I don't think so.

Anyone know what's going on with the 10 Farnsworth project in Fort Point? http://www.10farnsworth.com I know it was approved a long time (maybe a year?) ago. Is the parking lot still in use?

Re: The Boston Garden (TD Garden Towers) | 80 Causeway Street | West End Did you ask them why the residential tower was chopped down from the approved 600' height?

Doubt the GE move will lead to any international routes that wouldn't have come anyway. But having the HQ of a massive multinational company 10 minutes from Logan will certainly help ensure that the routes we have remain viable (more high yield business travelers).

^With all of these future routes on the wish list, I can't help but think of a potential JetBlue-Norwegian partnership that turns Boston into the most important LCC hub in the Western hemisphere. Geographically, at least, it makes perfect sense...

Where is the rule that says an Olympic Organizing Committee must forever remain an Olympic Organizing Committee? Boston 2024 is a collection of powerful and wealthy MA citizens with a very strong interest in Boston's growth and prosperity. Note that none of the infrastructure and redevelopment...

Wouldn't it be cool if Boston 2024, instead of ceasing operations, continued as a civic planning organization that rallied communities and the private sector around ideas that were hatched through the Olympic bid? Perhaps re-brand as Boston 2030 and form a public-private partnership with City...

Oh please. You really think a stadium at Beacon Yards or Suffolk Downs would have had a different fate? It doesn't matter where they pitched the bid, it would have run into the same vehement opposition.

What's most fascinating about this process is that, no matter how Boston 2024 ends up, it is fundamentally changing how US cities bid for Olympics. Think Los Angeles or NYC 2028 will be able to get away without publicly releasing all bid documents and holding a referendum? This ultra-public...

^ Good lord, Boston Magazine and the BBJ need to stop it with the excessive FOIA requests that do nothing but "expose" VERY standard procedures and processes of communication across all levels of government. Boston 2024 and City Hall have sent many emails to one another! Scandalous!! Boston...

Maybe a developer will step up if offered the biggest tax incentive in Boston history? 85% tax break phased out over the course of 40 years. http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2015/06/29/boston-envisions-tax-break-unprecedented-scope-redevelop-widett-circle/bxANs68FfocI1FK0X5PbqL/story.html

Has any bid city in the history of the Olympics produced this detailed of a plan so early in the process? We're talking more than 2 years before the IOC selects a host, and 9 years before the Olympics themselves. Say what you will about Boston 2024 and the feasibility of a Widett Circle...