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God damn -- imagine if Dukakis were governor right now, in this moment, when transit and urbanist movements are on the rise, as opposed to the 80s, when suburbs uber alles was still the order of the day. He would totally transform this city.

This plot is currently home to ~10 street-level retail locations, all of which are small in size, relatively affordable, and occupied by local businesses. These are the types of places that make urban neighborhoods interesting, lively, and exciting, and because they're locally owned, they keep...

What a damn shame. That would've made one hell of a little market pier with shops and restaurants, a la Nantucket Harbor.

What a beauty. This part of Dot has pretty good bones. Keep improving the Fairmont line and watch it explode.

Because under the current plan a private entity is funding the renovation of a publicly-owned facility, which will directly result in material benefits to the school district? While I don't begrudge neighbors who are nervous, this is unambiguously good for the city as a whole, I'm so confused...

No, they're not. They're called the Red Sox because the owner thought red was more marketable than blue (which was the color of socks they wore for the first seven years of their existence) and when the crosstown NL team switched from red socks to white, he decided to steal both the look and the...

Given that there's a building going up across the interesection as we speak, building on the Sunoco/CVS/parking lot (and maybe building a pedestrian street in between that building and the diagonal strip of restaurants adjacent to Star Market), would be something of a transformational project...

As long as we can also discuss why you're spectacularly rude.

Harvard just closed the Queens Head, and all of the others are, in practical sense, much more like event spaces that are used solely by members of the university community than actual bars (in fact, I'm pretty sure you need to have college IDs to enter all of them?) The Beantown Pub isn't really...

Hope I'm wrong, but I don't see a shot in hell that a university would maintain a bar in one of its dorms.

Actually, if I may make the mistake of taking this conversation seriously, these types of tanks have been well integrated into redevelopment projects, particularly in London: There's even a plan to turn this tank farm into housing. How amazing would this be in Everett?

This is such a ridiculous stretch. This stadium doesn't "threaten" the White Stadium plan in any way, nor is Wu treating the White Stadium plan as if its any kind of crown jewel priority.

This thing is going to loom over Fenway, isn't it?

It's not about population size; despite the relative sizes of the cities, AC Milan's global fanbase is larger than the LA Galazy by unimaginable orders of magnitude. Its about how the economic of sports is different in the US than in Europe. In Europe, sports teams have to win in order to make...

The "no land" part doesn't matter now that they've started to knock down historic buildings. I'm in favor of this hotel, but the North End is not landmark-protected and we absolutely are going to loose it if we're not careful. It's going to happen so gradually that no one will notice -- one...

It's quite possible that they're better off in Lowell for the time being, until the league is financially stable. They're a bigger fish in Lowell and would probably have an easier time creating ties within the community there than in Boston.

Longwood Mall is one of those wonderful hidden little spots that only real cities have. I love it every time I stumble upon it.

It has already been successfully implemented in cities all over the world, with resounding success. It demonstrably and measurably improves air quality, road safety, travel times, and, obviously in this particular case, it would have funded much needed infrastructure and public transportation...

What did those replace?

Of course not. That's obviously exactly what I meant when I said "it'll never be the South End." But different parts of Route 9 already provide drastically different feels and pedestrian experiences. Thanks to all the new, street-facing development on Route 9 in Brookline Village, that part of...