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I would guess 100 Summer--it's funny how these perspective conundrums are so Boston-centric, with our towers all skew to each other in a very bewildering/complex geometry; in Manhattan, with everything aligned perfectly rectilinearly, there would never be any such confusion... but here is more...

What's wonderful about Downtown Boston, for analyses like these, is that we have such a rich portfolio of office properties clustered within such distinct architectural/engineering eras. Think about the fact that we have so many office towers--literally dozens!!--still being used, perfectly...

I hear you--but it's interesting to note that the story JustBuildIt quoted said it's time to look at "1970s and 1980s-era offices." OK, let's look at some of the 1970s and 1980s-built office towers in Downtown (all dates built supplied by Wikipedia). 100 Federal: 1971 Federal Reserve: 1976 One...

453 Washington & 80 Summer both got the residential conversion treatment years ago, as did a fairly good number of other Ladder District properties. The low-hanging fruit got converted in the aftermath of the 2007-09 crash--8 Winter, 407 Washington, The Conrad, and others. What's left is, by...

The whole of the Southwest Corridor stretch offers such fantastic juxtapositions between the intimate, sanctuary-like feel of the old brownstones (or neo-brownstones) and forest canopy, set dramatically against the soaring regal majesty of the Back Bay spires. I could walk the length of the SW...

Route 128 must also be one, as it is an Amtrak stop (both NE Corridor and ACELA I presume?). Why would Attleboro, though, given there has never been Amtrak service there? (at least as far as I know/recall...)

Yes, and Germany was just slightly losing the war in April 1945. Boston's estimated homeless population, 2022: 1,545. NYC's estimated homeless population, 2022: 68,884. LA's estimated homeless population, 2022: 69,144. SF's estimated homeless population, 2022: 7,754 (p. 14 of PDF) The...

No arguments here--but I have to advocate for Provincetown/Truro's status as a bicyclists' (and, in the case of the former, walkers') paradise. Downtown P'Town to Truro Center is a 20-mile round-trip, perfect for good conditions (especially given the nearly perfectly flat terrain). Walking the...

Similar to 9 Hamilton Place, this one will also enjoy the relatively expedited Small-Project review process, being less than 50,000 sf. [And, of course, it is also highly similar to 9 Hamilton Pl. in its geographic siting; but I'll leave it to others to deduce any other similarities.]...

Yeah, being brutally exposed [in 2016] for using said enteprise to mask the running of a $100 million Ponzi scheme, then (in 2017) being arrested for tax fraud, and (in 2022) finally being indicted, and now facing FIVE YEARS in federal prison as a result of some truly Bernie Madoff/Sam...

For sure... but [obviously] let's see how this new upcoming museum does. This story says it will occupy 17,000 sf, which is a lot of vacancy to be absorbing there (if not all). I think if I recall correctly from walking past it the other day, the COMING SOON signage is filling every single...

Yes, Lafayette City Center--again, it hasn't been named "Lafayette Place" for at least 25 years--is obviously not blighted. It hosts giant tech firms paying up to $70 or so PSF for tens of thousands of square feet. What giant, prestigious, well-established tech firm (as opposed to a scruffy...

Curious when you were last Downtown? LCC hasn't been named "Lafayette Place" since at least the 1990s--already in 2002 it had been rebranded as LCC. It's now filled with giant tech firms--Carbonite, Sonos, VMware, etc. I cut through its lobby frequently on the way to DTX and there's good...

Googling this, you do get quick confirmation that Ozzy did in fact engage in some less-than-wholesome behavior there. Which is now why Portland can't have the nice thing which is an outdoor pool for the... [checks Portland ME long-term climate averages] ZERO days of the year that Portland, on...

I've done around 1,000 round-trips from South Station/Providence in the past half-decade. For what it's worth (nothing), I can only recall TWO infrastructure-failure delays, with all other (relatively rare) delays on the line being accounted for by: --brush fires on the tracks during fire...

For sure... in this vein though, I would contend that the 250 Dyer proposal failed miserably. To be sure, it was a pioneer, being sited more than 300 yards south from the thicket that defines PVD's traditional downtown, clustered around Kennedy Plaza/Burnside Park. But if you're going to be the...

OK, I see what you're saying; I suppose we're just talking past each other, making different arguments. I would argue that everything I've cited IS inviting to the pedestrian, but yes, it goes without saying, I was savvy to all of the great stuff that has sprung-up in this neighborhood in the...

No. Property tax revenues fund basic municipal services, plus municipal employee pensions, infrastructure projects, etc. They don't "grow" anything, other than municipal coffers and the budgetary pie charts that illustrate rising municipal revenues. What makes cities grow is the sense that they...

Seriously, it was a bad joke--really stale, 1980s-style aesthetics. Nakatomi Plaza called; it wants its styling back.