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Re: 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District You're hilarious.

Re: 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District Agreed, that'd fix it. Perhaps there are other fixes. But who pays to retrofit it? Not known. Not yet knowable. Fair warning, hairsplitting to come: their problem isn't exactly that their calculated risk has bit them in the ass. I'd phrase it...

Re: 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District Getting back on the Winthrop Square proposal, the biggest risk to Millennium's proposal doesn't look to me to be either NIMBY or shadows. I think they can get through those two issues (not guaranteed by any means). But can they obtain major...

Re: 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District That was their strategy after they lost their lender. Tried to ride out the recession that way plus get Menino to kick in more $ via tax breaks or whatever. Menino rightly told them to get stuffed.

Re: 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District With regards to the Filene's site, this is simply not what happened. The construction lender got vaporized in the credit crisis, and the financial sector of the entire planet was in "run and hide and curl up in fetal position" mode. Absolutely no...

You finally posted something that is 100% true. At least 95% of your posts have been a waste of everyone else's time, too. I'm trying to be generous here, giving you credit for that 5%.

Re: Seaport Parcels M1-M2 | Seaport Sq. | Seaport Grocery store placement always trails residential density in a developing area. Every chain has a strict formula (or set of formulae) that they will not violate, because the profit margins are so thin to begin with, they literally can't survive...

We're into silly land now. I can remember "news" stories like this going back to 1980 for every inauguration. And there's always shocked indignation and accusations of encouraging violence from the incoming party. These designated successor stories come up every time. It's just that we now...

Re: Offical City Hall Plaza Proposals I was formulating a response about how the enteric nervous system (the nerves in the digestive system) has more neurons than the spinal column, and is sometimes referred to as “the second brain”, which would have led to a great pun about brains and guts...

Re: SBWTC /South Boston Waterfront Transportation Center/Seaport/ S Boston I haven't been on or near this site during the process, but the last time I was on a site with steel sheets being driven, the driving was done more via vibration than by the old-fashioned wham bam driving. They inject...

Not bad, I like that subset of Art Deco, especially for apartment buildings of this general size, and this looks like a nice modern take on it. The color palette of the middle render seems utterly different than the color palette of the other two renders. Is it supposed to be a really sunny...

Re: Offical City Hall Plaza Proposals The mods could change the title to Offal City Hall Plaza Proposals and then it would be not be a typo any more and would make good sense besides.

Yep, but we're discussing it for the forum, so there's no reason to not care that no one else cares. OK, that was circular. But seriously, >90% of what gets posted here is just opining on things that most of Jon Q Public cares little about. As for the specific of the unfinished roof, I...

I agree, at this point the safest bet is that it bit the dust during VE. The only hope to be wrong on that is if there was some good reason for delay and they negotiated some sort of TCO with the City to do it later. This strikes me as highly unlikely - it would be an odd sort of TCO that was...

You skipped right past the 2018 midterm Congressional elections in your prognosticating - need to edit that in, as it is a yuuuuuuuge factor.

The way you describe it is sure as hell like no other building I've ever seen or read of. Highly atypical indeed.

Stellarfun, thanks for the reply, I had posted mine to JeffDowntown before seeing yours. And having read through it, the concept of heavy metals getting infused into the brickwork itself strikes me as a really fundamental issue of "if" it can possibly be remediated, not just a "can we afford...

I understand that conceptually, but now that you've mentioned nuclear disaster sites... I grew up near Three Mile Island and was in the area when their accident occurred. And so understandably followed the ensuing mess. Us locals of course all wanted it all hauled away, or at least that was...

Stellarfun, I had seen that said of the Charlestown plant and was wondering about the "can't." Does "can't" in this case mean the cost would be so wildly beyond entombing it that it just makes no sense? Or is it that they can't remove the contamination without releasing such a shit-ton of it...

It had a coal fired power plant on it for decades, one that pre-dated the founding of the EPA: it cannot possibly NOT have environmental issues. Shifting to a newer, more modern gas plant will in and of itself lower the off-site environmental impacts (pollution, CO2 emissions), so that's a big...