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I be the more than anything uberpool killed them. Probably slightly more expensive than an expensive bus but door to door service. Edit: I wonder if they looked into more low income, high employment routes. They seemed to go from indirect pockets of wealthy enclaves, but what about like...

I think the Hyde Park can be made, but I think there is an unacknowledged aspect to the fair design in this conversation. I look at Braintree and think the MBTA does not want people to take the commuter rail, they want people to take the red line. Otherwise you could have 300-400 people wait...

Re: Lowell 2015 update What's the rationale for no residential? Not even mixed? (I'm not familiar with Lowell but this seems to go against the grain of other small cities seeking to bring in residence and mix use)

Re: General Electric HQ | 244-284 A Street | Fort Point This is really an NBA move, not a GE move. The league made this decision to allow ads. I don't like logos on the jersey's at all, but all teams are doing this. If the league has them, I would at least want our to be massively respected...

Well we have one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country. Now all of our liberal policies are supposed to kill economic growth, but unfortunately we have growing, educated, and affluent population. Fortunately, we have new trainsets on order, but the timing is a tough reality. Ideally...

If BOS really wont work for some time, i could see them doing both RI and NH. Likely not right away, but the Boston Metro is definitely big enough to split for $300-400 round trip to Ireland/Europe.

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Overall, i think the cost benefit analysis for transit greatly underestimates the opportunity cost of not investing. Yes, we should use better bids and prudent prioritization, but general system maintenance and upkeep really needs to account for issues and realities that say, if winter...

HOV South station exit/ Logan HOV on 93 N coming into the city has a pretty nice bounce. that's concrete, probably not 7 feet of it though.

I'm glad to see this and am pleasantly surprised by the relative lack of parking for a development of this size. ~750 spaces for that whole set of hotel, office and residential seems pretty low relative to its size.

I feel like they should study this and have it ready for the next boom. i don't think it will happen in the next 5-7 years, but no reason they couldn't start building decks by 2025, upzone areas in coordination with the city and then auction and split the proceeds

bring back vagabonds. If there is any neighborhood where people would say it it would be here... and Beacon Hill

I wish they could change the CITGO letters to be "BOSTON" or "FENWAY", but i imagine that could be thought as violating it as a landmark. Not too mention, CITGO would probably put up a big fight against losing the free advertising and appropriation of its trademark.

^ so insurance

I've learned that for all the numbers, banks are people to and there are costs in due diligence. Signing off on a starbucks is much easier and faster than doing the due diligence on Joe's Coffee here and Mary's Tea there. Plus banks are putting up debt. They really want certainty that their...

Expected value. If starbucks has a 90% chance of paying its $50/sq. foot over ten years and local coffee shop has a 80% chance of paying $55/sq. foot over ten years, starbucks wins.

Re: 111 Federal St. | Formerly Trans National Place (Winthrop Square) Part 2 I'm fine with the BRA not publishing their appraisals, especially since they had a 50%/$50million variance between the two. They did have a competition with public bids and picked the one with the highest cash value...

Re: Amtrak / Regional Rail Discussion Thread So is the 33% capacity increase in the 9 car base set or if you expand that set out to 12?

It's an interesting dynamic that this building certainly signals (both visual and in terms of financial scale) of Boston's emerging place in the global real estate environment. While there are concerns around a bunch of empty units and bubbling up real estate prices for people that actually live...

Re: Wynn Everett Casino | Everett We are getting off a bit, but important to highlight that as big as Wynn/Assembly may be over time, they will not be the reason behind an CR-OL conversion. North Station, NSRL, growth of North Station business areas, and access to Back Bay will be bigger...