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Key word in your question is "dropping". Yes, I suspect these decks would be brought in as significantly pre-fab sections and set in place during off hours. But there are constrained surface streets in all directions, and no big ready-made assembly areas adjacent to the future deck. So they...

Re: Storm surge in Boston If you've got time on your hands, you can read through the City's "Climate Ready Boston" December 2016 report, downloadable here: https://www.boston.gov/environment-and-energy/climate-ready-boston Fair warning: the report pdf is a giant file. There is discussion...

What the hell? This is silly. I do not see one shred of evidence that the federal government is applying the same criteria to Fort Point Channel as they apply to President Roads. Yes, the Coast Guard and the Army Corps of Engineers want the FPC navigable waterway to stay open, but no, there’s...

I just won a bet with myself!! I bet myself that you'd respond with some big-ass straw man - er, straw ship?* - example of something that wouldn't fit under the Moakley. The bridges over Seaport (the Moakley), Congress, and Summer Streets are all high enough clearance to bring construction...

Re: SBWTC /South Boston Waterfront Transportation Center/Seaport/ S Boston Bingo And bingo again. We not only have epic auto traffic jams, we’re seeing a pretty good jam of epic planning fails. How many more planning fails can be crammed into one patch of Boston? Inquiring minds want to...

Great find, Tall, thanks for posting. And as for the content, what a laugh riot. First, contrary to recent news reports, it seems the chain of communication is not the US Coast Guard sending letters to the City, it's the USCG sending letters to the US Army Corps of Engineers. If I'm...

OK, fair point, though Winn had plenty of clout, too. I hope you're right. I like this proposal better than any previous air-rights proposal that I've looked at. By that, I do not mean I was against the earlier one, I'm saying this one is really excellent. I'd love for Samuels to prove my...

I remember Columbus Center dying of financing problems, in the end it got caught in the downdraft of the financial crisis, but had been struggling to close on loans due to the usual problems on the terms of the deck. Getting caught mid-stream bribing a public official did not help matters. I...

The NIMBY risk is not the critical risk here, just as it isn't the critical risk on any other turnpike air-rights parcel. The critical risk is on the terms of the deal between MassDOT and the developer and the City concerning the construction of the deck, the leasing of the deck (to pay for...

Ah, I missed that one in my scroll back through the pages. Thanks. From how that article describes the wrangling, there seemed to be no updates on Coast Guard opinions after so many months of everyone else opining away. This makes it still seem to me like maybe the Coast Guard reached a point...

Re: Landmark Center Expansion | Fenway I haven't looked at the Suffolk deeds site for a while, and forget: can you pull the whole mortgage online? If so, does it look like a construction / perm? That'd tell a lot.

Re: The Merano (Parcels 1B & 1C) | Bulfinch Triangle | West End I'm repeating a bit from what others have said, but: In regulated affordable housing units, all leases stipulate that each adult in the household is obliged, under threat of eviction in the case of non-compliance, to notify the...

I've been wondering if the media reported this correctly. I tried to find a link to the actual letter from the Coast Guard to the City saying "take it down". I'm wondering if they didn't actually say something along the lines of "remove it from over the two navigable waterways." That's what...

Re: Landmark Center Expansion | Fenway Treasury rates have risen over 100 basis points in six months. Yellen has pretty consistently been signaling that she thinks they need to climb more, and Trump (for what it's worth - not much) at least made noise on the campaign trail that he wanted them...

This. In the aftermath of this year's drought, I've seen an incredible number of trees come down in Newton Highlands and surrounding area. Some have fallen on nearly calm days, just sort of "OK, I'm dead, goodbye cruel world" and [crash]. I haven't seen any come down on main thruways to...

There was a really massive tree-cutting five or six years ago along the D branch. I'm pretty sure the number of trees removed went into the thousands. There were so many logging trucks on the road that Newton felt sort of like Oregon for a few weeks (except the tree diameters on the logging...

I don't believe any vetting was done at all. From the channel 5 article: At that level of “accounting”, it wasn’t possible for the City to have done any vetting; there was not a sufficient basis of financial information upon which to perform standard due diligence. For an endeavor of this...

Re: Wynn Everett Casino | Everett You've got to be kidding. Whighlander and Rifleman, get back on topic? Next you'll be asking for a unicorn that shits gold bullion.

Re: 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District Don't be silly. If you're going to go away mad, find something more substantive to go away mad over than just one property. I'm sure you can do so, if you really want to go away mad. Or, as stick n move suggests, you can stay and fight - but if...

The BC women's lacrosse team is a varsity ACC sport. Men's is club, you're right. The two soccer teams, just to name a few more, would also presumably be able to make good use of an indoor facility for off-season practices. They've got their own outdoor field over on the Newton campus, but...