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    NYC Architecture and Development

    There are only so many offshore billionaires looking to park their money in US real estate. Some of these buildings have 1 br's going for $3M, whereas you can get a really nice, new building 1 br elsewhere in Manhattan for $1.3-1.5M. So who is going to pay DOUBLE, plus wild condo fees? I...
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    Boston Tech Center Redevelopment | 176 Lincoln Street | Brighton

    I still remember the year ~2000 with the giant Globix / Global Crossing - CLEC/COLO/DATACENTER all-caps sign that was up for so long, then one day it was gone. And nobody has been able to make that site work.
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    South Station Tower | South Station Air Rights | Downtown

    Defs 1990's. The South Bay Incinerator is in the background. That was demolished by 1998. Such a cool photo. Don't even get me going on the seaport sea o' parking spots.
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    Gillette leaving Southie.

    I can't believe that they still operated a significant manufacturing operation so close to a city core, and an expensive city core at that. I bet developers have been drilling at their kneecaps to get their hands on that parcel. I am also surprised that the site has been so active this long...
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    MGH Ragon Building | 55 Fruit Street | West End

    Am I missing something? Looks like nothing has happened in 10 months. Also, is that Louis CK crossing Blossom Street?
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    1400 Boylston Street | Star Market & Gulf | Fenway

    I understand the ire here, but it beats the heck out of the crappy gas station and Shaws/Star Market and its tiny parking lot.
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    Winthrop Center | 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District

    I recently toured a bunch of ultra-high-end Miami homes on one of those gated islands with a friend that does real estate there. Think $15M, $20M+ homes. They all were either new or heavily updated and they all looked like the lobby of this building. Beige, taupe, matte metals, and some...
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    Minneapolis | Twin Cities

    Good question. It is sunny most days, dry with little/no breeze so I would say upper 20's and low 30's during the day in those similar to Boston winters. Now that you mention it, the early and late winter periods are far better than Boston, haha. We never get the gloomy, damp, grey, cloudy...
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    Minneapolis | Twin Cities

    Having lived in Boston an NYC for most of my life, here are my thoughts. Life here is really, really easy - good quality of life, great jobs, and a fairly low cost of living. The metro area is 4.5M people, so it is not as big as Boston, but it is plenty big enough that you are not going to the...
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    NYC Architecture and Development

    When I lived in HY pre-Covid and worked in Midtown, when "everyone" went to the office, I would often be on a near-empty 7 train, aside from HY construction workers. There a lot of people that walk to HY from Penn Station from the LIRR, NJ Trainsit, and the A/C/E, and the 1/2/3 on 7th Ave...
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    Minneapolis | Twin Cities

    The "historic" Duffy Paper Company factory buildings (2 connected by a walkway) in the North Loop is being redeveloped into a ~360-unit apartment complex. It has sat vacant for 15 years while every other lot around it has been loaded up with 5 over 1.
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    NYC Architecture and Development

    I lived across the street from this site. It has been a vacant lot for over a decade, mainly used for fashion events and Equinox used it as a pop-up gym during Covid. Interesting to see they are putting office space there. Allegedly, a lot of the Hudson Yards condos are not selling, while the...
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    Raffles Boston (40 Trinity Place) | 426 Stuart Street | Back Bay

    I bet it will be packed, too. Preferably, I would come around Christmas, after they have worked out the new hotel team, new hotel operations, new building, etc. kinks.
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    Eli Lilly IGM | 15 Necco Street | Fort Point

    I can't help but think the following when I see this building:
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    On The Dot | 505 Dorchester Avenue | South Boston

    Cladding color reminds me of Andes mint cocolate filling:
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    8-10 Waldo Street | Coolidge Corner | Brookline

    Those last two renders are about 1 person away from an Edward Hopper painting.
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    The St Regis Residences (former Whiskey Priest site) | 150 Seaport Blvd | Seaport

    The restaurant looks nice. My first thought was, "I bet they have a $25 hamburger". I was wrong. It is only $24, what a bargain.
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    Minneapolis | Twin Cities

    I went to an event at the W Hotel in the Foshay Tower. It is like Minneapolis' version of the Custom House Tower. It had a nice view of our handful of tall buildings. IDS Center and Wells Fargo Center. I like the WF Center. New-ish, but has a lot of great attention to detail, plus cool...
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    Residences at Rivergreen | Everett

    The background in the renders looks more like Westborough than Everett. That aside, I love what Everett is doing, they are really crushing it.
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    Minneapolis | Twin Cities

    It really is wild how much 5 over 1s are going up. I live in a residential area in the city that looks like Belmont or Arlington and within a mile of me there are 5-6 5/1 buildings going up right now. I lived in a brand new one when I first got here. Coming from Hudson Hards in NYC and all...

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