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Re: Landmark Center Expansion | Fenway I'm disappointed that in this iteration, they're apparently doing nothing with that little parking lot by the T stop, in front of Bed Bath and Beyond. The prior iteration replaced it with a turnaround drop off loop and some landscaping, which maybe wasn't...

Responding in slightly different order than how you phrased it. “We”? These are Iowa tax dollars being spent, not US tax dollars. I’m not an Iowa taxpayer and I doubt you are, either, and I doubt there are many aBers from Iowa. Not to me. In the United States we have been practicing a...

If we're going to re-name the street with something rebranded to reflect the Red Sox, and also be historically accurate, it could be named Sold At Low Price Street. That's pretty cumbersome, I know, so they could do it as an acronym: SALP Street, with little plaques under each street sign to...

Fair guess. I'd have done that, in their place. But three weeks shaved off the Pike closure time, as a percentage of the original number of weeks predicted to be closed, suggests to me that just about every single thing that needed to go right, did go right. And I would assume not only by...

MassPike has been reopened to four lanes in each direction, this happened three weeks ahead of schedule: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/08/06/all-mass-pike-lanes-open-monday/okWUkjKZRpecHd05jbp7wL/story.html The installation of the main beams apparently went much faster than...

eh, maybe, maybe not. I've got in-laws in Germany, including Hamburg, and they're pretty vigorous in saying that the Hamburg bid was going down at the voting booth with or without the Boston example. Boston did get cited during their debate, but it's not at all clear it was even remotely...

Re: Wynn Everett Casino | Everett Converting commuter rail to higher frequency service would be accomplished by electrifying it (or large portions of it at least), and that'd be a pre-requisite to NSRL anyways, as that tunnel would have gradients too steep for diesel, and insufficient venting...

What has changed is that the IOC is once again scared shitless at the trend line of who's been bidding for what. And once again, LA hit the timing just right, as did Paris (sort of). It wasn't just Boston that dropped it, Hamburg did too, as did Rome, and numerous other viable cities are...

This is the funniest fucking thing I've read in weeks, and being that these tweets are in competition with the President's tweets, that's saying something. Further fuel for hilarity here, as mayors' offices and other various officials say they have never even received first contact from...

Re: 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District It's always hard to know how much of a beat writer's slant is her own, and how much of it is what she's being shoe-horned into by her editors, so it's tough to assign blame. I lived in NYC for three years (a few decades ago), and there are a fair...

This is a fair point, but it's not the case that all of those entities share equal responsibility for every island. The BHIP website has a breakdown of which entity has what: http://www.bostonharborislands.org/the-partnership For instance, the Coast Guard owns Little Brewster Island, and they...

Re: North-South Rail Link That's good to hear.

Re: North-South Rail Link Next step: http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2017/07/05/state-awards-1-5m-contract-to-study-north-south.html Per their web site, the UK headquarters branch of Arup previously was involved with the Chunnel and more recently the London Underground extension (no...

This quote from the Globe article.... ... seems a bit ambiguous. It's been awhile since the last time I was closely connected to the construction side of a project of this scale (i.e., with sprinklers) as it neared completion, but my memory is that the sprinklers were pressurized and...

The news report suggested that the FD thought they had, but also noted it was a fire of pretty recent origin, so it might not be the case that all subs have their head counts done yet. Anyhow, no known injuries yet.

Just looked at in on channel 7 live stream; started 3:00-ish, and is not yet under control. 7 was also relaying the FD's concerns about roof collapse. This is the building Boston 02124 posted pics of at post 692

Rifleman, this Mars concept has legs. The plaza is paved in red brick - got the color scheme correct. It's normally barren as hell - got the background amount of life correct. So they plunk down all these things that look like Mars colonization pods, then get one of those rover thingies from...

I had not previously realized that the Huntington Theater will get a portion of this new building's first floor lobby, plus a pretty large portion of the second floor for event space. Maybe it was in previous renders / posts / articles and I missed it, I don't know. But now I see that the...

Right, and it seems there were some folks speculating that since the floor plates are smaller than Millennium's, this would be able to shoot up more floors per month. But I don't think floor plate size is the critical limiting factor, I think the needed cure time for recently completely floors...

I'm in full support of this concept. I agree with fattony's points, especially the first one. The third proposal has a bit of a stepped structure: I'd take that a lot farther with several more concentric "circles" (which of course wouldn't be round at all) of zones stepping down in price more...