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The line "plan to build on every available piece of land around the ballpark" is particularly obnoxious and irritating. Tell me you're a reactionary Boomer without telling me you're a reactionary Boomer. The insinuation is that the Red Sox are orchestrating some diabolical conspiracy to scale-up...

Comes now Dan Shaughnessy, *the dean of Boston sports columnists,* with this *certified fresh hot take*: "Nice of FSG to unveil its 5-8-year Fenway Corners plan to build on every available piece of land around the ballpark. The proposed monstrosity that would sit behind the Green Monster looks...

"Up here in Boston, I'm always defending Maryland, 'hey, the state that gave us Roger Taney, and the murder of Freddie Gray, and produced the appalling conditions and horrifying corruption that The Wire & We Own This City so searingly illuminated, it's getting better, going in the right...

Come on, this is populist ranting. Please corroborate this with links to sources that objectively and rigorously demonstrate how, exactly, they're walking away "scott free with huge bags of cash." Compared to who? Otherwise, you're just a Howie Carr-esque (or Rifleman-esque) carnival barker...

Indeed. Also, FWIW, now that the Federal St. sidewalk in front of the tower has finally reopened, you can peer into the lobby from the Federal St. entrance and gaze all the way through it, glimpsing the Devonshire St. doorways at the far side of the lobby. On sunny afternoons, it's a lovely...

I'm not at all surprised to hear... thanks for the fascinating elucidation! NOTE: recently and by sheer coincidence, I happened to discover Taiwan has an embassy in DTX just yards from Chinatown: https://www.taiwanembassy.org/usbos_en/index.html "Taipei Economic & Cultural Office in Boston"...

My understanding is that Ten Ten Day--which used to be celebrated both on the mainland and in Taiwan, but, following the capture of China by the Maoist forces in 1949, morphed into a holiday of exclusively Taiwanese identity--is a fairly big deal still in Chinatown...

I saw what you did there, sir, with your punnery--and I salute it. To get things *back on track*: remember that the abutting 9 Hamilton Pl. hotel project got approved for construction some time ago already. It will be interesting to see how these two construction projects interplay...

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What the heck are you talking about? Ultimately, it's quite trivial, but, the UHub posts make it abundantly clear that Flynn was always opposed to the proposal to push the closing hour back to 3 am. The 2nd post even included a link to the first one, underscoring that Flynn's oppositional stance...

As I noted above, the "they" in question has an absolutely abysmal track record at Faneuil Hall, and, as a result, the worst reputation/credibility gap amongst all major CRE operators in the city. (Seriously, I defy anyone to name another developer/owner in Boston that has as dismal a rep as...

Excellent suggestion, and the timing is surely fortuitous: I cannot foresee anything... really, anything... at the present moment that would inhibit the federal government from showering its subordinates at the Boston USPS Postal Annex with the necessary resources--monetary and otherwise--to...

Quite literally, they are the residue of the arsenal of democracy. There, 25-year-old (!) Norman Leventhal, who is on a very short list for greatest Bostonian of the 20th-century, oversaw, as an MIT-trained naval architect, the construction of forty-six destroyer escorts, eleven destroyers, and...

I have questions: 1.) How do you define "Boston"--the Mayor Wu regime? A potential successor regime? The BPDA as presently constituted? The BPDA as it might be evolving? 2.) How do you define "tap"? Remember, the process in which they won the development sweepstakes for the Winthrop Sq. Garage...

Speaking of... will the hideous screeching of the trolleys as they negotiate the hairpin curve there be annoyingly audible from where the beer garden will be operating? (Note that very detailed WBUR piece didn't guarantee that the MBTA's noise-dampening attempts would be successful... can...

Very thoughtful post. To which I would add, "You're not being paranoid if, in fact, a vast coalition of forces is conspiring against you." Although suburbanization began as early as the 1880s--Newton residents sure enjoyed the amenity of those HH Richardson-designed stations when they were...

Which just happens to be Ashkenazy, aka Evil Incarnate. For those unfamiliar, before Ashkenazy acquired the SS operator/leasing rights, it was chiefly famous around here for instigating a witches' brew of hostility, resent, and toxic tension at Faneuil Hall, all while gleefully extending a...

Although I couldn't find the actual cost for the Harvard Sq.-Alewife extension, happily I was able to find the projected cost for the entire envisioned project (i.e., if it had run to Arlington Heights), in August 1977 dollars, via that month's EIS for the initiative, available here. So, the...

It's no longer on the BPDA developments map. That can't be accidental.

Stunningly exquisite front door. Bleak, confusing & auto-centric back door. Hopefully the latter will change as part of the renovation.