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I agree on rebuilding. Lipstick on the pig won’t work. Heck, I remember 20 years ago (during the explosion of the personal laptop era), it wasn’t well-configured to serving the students and that has to have only gotten worse as NEU’s grown enrollment.

Not sure that makes sense, since Roger H. Brown bought Boston Conservatory’s buildings on The Fenway in 2016. They’re now just a series of department under the Berklee School brand. In public meetings, the Berklee people actually entertained the idea of sponsoring renaming Hynes when the ICA...

The Harvard Club is the owner of the site, so I doubt they’re NIMBYing their own development. It’s abutters, especially rowdy at the last two meetings. By the way, the BPDA public meetings are filmed and online, as is the project filing...

The NIMBY’s who have “garden level” condos on Comm Avenue bullied them into less height, cause “teh views and sun lite”

They’ve started to jump down the crane (hence its strange position in that pic). Expected to be complete Sunday. This site is just barreling along.

Mods, can you split the housing convo off to that thread? This is tedious and offers no new info on the development of a site zoned for retail.

Word around the neighborhood in the summer of 2020 was that there was a ton of abatement, elevators were shot, escalators were shot, electric service was shot. Price seems a tad high, but it’s essentially a gut rehab so maybe not.

Building shadows are *so much* different and twelve times more harmful than the naturally-occurring tree shade that protects pedestrians from the sun. Everyone knows this! /sarcasm

I don’t know. As much as I mourn the loss of the cornice, parapet, greenhouse, and street-clock, someone obviously took a lot of thought on proportionality of the precedent arches when the orangery was replaced with the set-back bays for the building extension on Fairfield. If one didn’t know it...

Edit to add: The Galvin flower shop circa 1910s. There are some other images out there.

I find it interesting that Tavistock is actively marketing the former C&B retail space, despite the fact that this was approved by the BPDA some time ago. Joe Lewis is worth some $4.3B, but he’s delaying this drop-in-a-bucket project that would hugely expand his retail/restaurant revenue stream...

BRA site lists it as on hold.

This has been making me nuts for days. I recall reading about the painted west facade of many cathedrals. I can’t find the actual article, but the Wiki for Amiens talks briefly about the annual festival that they host with some proprietarytech to make it appear what they it actually looked it...

“Hurt” or “impact”? I live, work, and play inside 128, and I’m okay with charging anyone who feels it’s their God Given Right to pal round my neighborhood. Tolling the suburbanites who are so mad they got a ticket for parking in a Resident Only spot (after 8:00 PM, weekdays), when they were up...

Haven’t peaked at this thread for ages, but this reminded me of a rumor from old TOTH managers that Boston Properties (BPX) hoped Eddie V’s would be the interim TOTH while BPX renovated for a new Skywalk/dining experience. Not sure how that’s worked out, given the only view from V’s is...

They crane equipment and materials onto them and then hump it into the building. Before they closed up the south facade, looked like it was HVAC units. edit to add: “… looked like it was HVAC units they were loading in.” Sorry, incomplete sentence. I was Zooming and replying, oops. Also...

That horrible ‘50s-ish pile of indignity is owned by Christian Science, think it’s addressed as 180-190 Mass Ave. FCCS had a deal to redevelop into a 30-some floor midrise but it fell through during lockdown. Then, the long-term tenant vacated the office space. There’s apparently a non-profit...

Random question I don’t know where to post. Anyone know what’s up with the Old Hancock’s beacon that flipped to green the other night?

I have to respectfully disagree. That Boston.blah article was a mugging, and it seems they’re just butt-hurt about the lack of parking. Super petty, but it’s the Boston Glob’s ignorant little sibling, so, lol. Peebles had the rug pulled out from under them, twice, (due to no fault of their...

It’s 260-262 Comm Ave, a former Bay State frat house being redeveloped by the most inept collection of morons I’ve ever observed. 1010 is pulling their hair out at the incompetent manner in which they demo’d without a permit, screwed the abutters on both sides, and don’t have even a casual...