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When was the last time you were on 128? This screams 1984 Kendall Square.

Re: Millennium Tower - Filene's Also of note, the Daimaru store in Shinsaibashi, Osaka. Designed by expatriot American architect William Merrell Vories and built in 1922, it apparently survived WWII unscathed. Like Kyoto City Hall, it's in a regionally adapted style that draws from Gothic and...

A museum piece! I was in there almost a year ago on a cold Friday evening at the bar during dinner time and there were only 4 tables in use in the dining room, all by what looked like well heeled tourists. It was like watching people eat in one of those preserved New England house rooms in the...

It stands out, looks good coming up from the expressway from the south or coming up the harbor by boat. My 8 year old was quite taken with some of the interactive sculputres in the lobby. The old Russia Wharf buildings worked as well, but location, location, location. Wait, aren't these...

Wouldn't it be great if part of the mitigation was the need to install a zip line from the Don Orione shrine to the hotel roof?

City records have Synergy owning the lot. I know Pappas was the owner of the site before the Shaw's got developed in the mid-1990's.

There is some pretty nice houses in Newton along the Pike and the Worcester line that keep getting sold despite the noise.

This site has stayed underdeveloped for two reasons; 1. The soil underneath is a tad ugly. This part of the site was a taxi garage/parking area with gas station up until the mid-1970's. Also, where the bus transfer area is there was until about 1983-1984 a smelter. On some glorious winter...

Shaw's finished up as Oste Chevrolet around 1995.

Despite the fact that Foxboro is closer to my house than Revere, I will actually get off my rear end more often to go to Revere to see Major (Well, really minor) League Soccer.

Ron - CVS is in a suburban office park about two miles south of downtown in a joint Woonsocket and Cumberland sponsored business park that has seen tremendous growth over the past few years, owing to tax incentives and the success of CVS, not because of the charms of Woonsocket. One of the...

Re: The Victor 617-357-5700 - a/k/a the Ron Druker hotline. Why lease up something and increase the building's value and they pay more broker's fees and taxes when your dad got it in a card game back in the 1950's for nothing? By no means is the card game theory a proven fact, just a story I...

In many towns the street names change while the route designations stay the same. In Marshfield Route 3A is Main Street, then briefly Ocean Street, then Morraine Street. It provides simple and clear directions. Not everyone wants some electronic voice telling them where to go. I eschew GPS...

Re: The Victor I walked between the two buildings today and thought the same thing about cruise ships. One upside is that the street running between the two has Bromfield Street potential.

1905? You may be off a bit. Might the Brewer have been moved for the construction of Park Street Station and the Subway in 1895-1897?

I'm waiting for the day these eagles finally give up the glaring and attack each other.

Re: Assembly Square Redevelopment This will be an Extra Space or Public Storage location. Based upon the occupancy figures that I have seen in the area, this is needed. People do have extra "things". These buildings are a needed part of the landscape no less than gas stations or post...

Dorchester Painter Childe Hasham took a little liberty with the placement of the sun in this painting in order to get the sun right. If the sun ever sets in that position, we are in some version of the movie 2012.

I can't wait to buy my St. Patrick's Day decorations there to freshen up the Famine statues. It will be very convenient.

I worked on the Swan Boats in the late 1980's. Lee would come by from time to time. Granted he did do a lot for the Public Garden and the Common, but he also seemed to have a swagger about him that it was his park and everyone else were just guests of his in his front yard. I really feel that...