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All towers everywhere are by definition "tumescent"--they stand tall and erect. Otherwise, they'd collapse (or they'd not in fact be towers, but would be gas stations, or big-box econo retailers, or mortuaries, or whatever...). Thus, I'd love to hear the explanation of how "tumescence," instead...

The fact you pointlessly blended in discussion of the Downtown Boston residential apartment market with the Downtown Boston office market, as if there was any connection whatsoever between the two when it comes to your current hyperventilating rant, demonstrates the (as usual) substance-free...

What a wonderfully--yet depressingly--illuminating overhead view you've shared. Look at how many surface lots there are in that capture--at least eleven! So, yes, certainly agreed, the Dyer/Dorrance corridor is crying out for more density, more urbanism, anything other than the vitality-sapping...

Note, for the record, both locations are essentially equidistant--just 1,800 feet, so not much more than a 5-minute walk--from where the tall timber is clustered around Kennedy Plaza. However, whereas the density remains fairly high along the Broadway St. corridor between this spot and...

Because RIDOT is still facing intense backlash/bad optics from the (perceived) white elephant that is Wickford Junction? (I mean, it can't be as bad as Studio 38...) What kind of ROI, in the most generously holistic sense, is RI getting on that transit center, do we think? Strictly in terms of...

Research is your friend: 17 West St. parcel, registered owner: Paul Roiff (also note it shows all of the parcel's assessed values going back 40 years) 9 West St. (Brattle Book Shop) parcel, registered owner: Ken Gloss Ken Gloss [does not equal] Paul Roiff...

The hotel development proposal is "17-23 West Street," not, "17-25 West Street," so, no. (You can see from all the project renderings that 25 West is absolutely not part of the proposal.) That said, I highly doubt this proposal is even still active. If you look at that project page linked to...

Curious how much of that cost might involve implementing state-of-the-art earthquake-resiliency engineering? Any mass transit infrastructure that traverses the mighty and fearsome San Gabriels--I-5, I-15, whatever freight line hugs the I-15 corridor (the SP & Santa Fe?); ditto for any freight...

That's quite the bold assertion, coming from someone who is presumably neither a.) on the development team nor b.) James Arthur Jemison. What do you know--other than that land and labor costs are ruinously expensive, energy efficiency and affordable housing mitigation impositions are equally...

Since when has Johnnyrockets ever let stubborn facts get in the way of playing to the cheap seats? Man, is he coming in hot of late with the Rifleman-esque rants...

The battle is joined! https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/06/24/opinion/north-south-rail-link-transportation-william-straus/ https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/06/24/opinion/north-south-rail-link-benefits/ I'm intrigued to hear any fellow ABers opine on Straus' criticisms that a.) the NSRL tunnel...

Ask, and ye shall receive... https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/06/24/business/healey-offers-15m-help-boston-convert-downtown-office-buildings-into-housing/

I was doing nothing of the sort (and thus I'm genuinely sorry you misinterpreted me); I was merely pushing back against Johnnyrocket's post, which I feel was typically divisive, populist, class-baiting, Us Vs. Them rhetoric--more Howie Carr Lite.

Still Beantown Pub... and Hub Pub... and Sidebar... and Elephant & Castle... and JJ Foley's... and dozens of our very modest eateries and cafes in the immediate vicinity, to satisfy any fetishization of the working-class heroes out there...

Or, he's merely descended into Kabuki theater-style calisthenics, telegraphing his desire to run NU's Dukakis Center once he leaves Congress? (just a guess; zero insider knowledge) Landsmark turns 79 next May. Anyway, I'm just as disgusted as you, at least in terms of the flagrant puff...

Although the point of an office is of course to pool workers efficiently to maximize productivity so as to increase competitiveness/eventual ROI, a secondary benefit to it is that, IF it's a non-toxic officeplace culture that employees enjoy convening at, then it may help alleviate the...

Don't forget the grandaddy of all Boston fountain debacles! Per the photographic evidence, that City Hall Plaza fountain was massive, spectacular, grand and dramatic. And then it got bricked-over quite quickly (I certainly don't recall it being in existence as early as the late 1980s)...

Hopefully, in 20 years, if the zombie apocalypse/nuclear winter/runaway global warming hasn't set in, those trees will be 2x their current height and starting to spread a serious canopy, like back when old Burnsie ruled the Winthrop Square roost... as it is now, they're obviously not providing...

"It really ties the [urban] room together"

It is a massively convenient space that people pass through. I pass through it all the time; it's a great conduit from the western to eastern Financial District. And it is interchangeable with its neighbor, 75-101 Fed, that people pass through, in that regard. So what are you actually trying to...