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Applaud your positive take! (I also still think it would have worked better, had the hardscape been brick!)

My main question about said-hardscape is: why go with such a bleak, grey palette? The previous warm, red-brown brick hardscape played much more nicely with both Trinity and with Back Bay overall.

Vermillion is open till 10 most days still. Shame there’s not enough traffic to justify later hours even on the weekend. Shame that “the connector” has such limited traffic, overall. Would love for it to become a truly vibrant all-night congregation spot, but I think it’s more likely that in a...

the area is so weird. i guarantee, the only surefire way to see something taller than JHT in boston proper is for kendall to build a tower taller than JHT and then the city will freak out and, hey presto -- suddenly shadow laws and faa restrictions are (momentarily) easily worked around.

Yeah I do. “Lol” yourself

Fair enough. My apologies.

Maybe if we had THE tallest tower in the U.S. (or world, or whatever) then maybe, but otherwise you really think it'd move the needle? We're typically in the top-10 or top-15 most visited cities in the country -- do you really think that if we had a 1,000 footer that we'd leapfrog over, say...

I get excited by new, tall projeccts, too. I was (and remain) so surprised and pleased when 1 Dalton finally moved forward and I love the result (and wish they'd managed to add on another 70 -- or more! -- feet so we could have a new tallest), but I don't get the whole dick-measuring thing and...

New Delhi, Rome, Washington, Athens, Lima, Munich, Venice, Florence, Dublin, Paris, Stockholm -- there are so many important, beautiful, desirable cities that don't have crazy tall towers. Who cares?

Big fan of large, open lots?

I work next to this lot and noticed the same thing this AM. The area could sure use more housing, so if the lab space is now a non-starter, hopefully they just build some apartments/mixed use here. Way too busy and desirable a zip code to just sit vacant.

But how does it compare?

Green-light this one right now! And then move on to making some use of the former Homan Building lot. The current "art park"/pop-up park is WAY preferable to the gravel lot that was there for too long, but Gilman Square -- the actual Square -- needs to be more than two gas stations and one...

"Shitty, dangerous Boston" was also a space much more conducive to creative, artistic evolution, much like "shitty, dangerous LES" in NYC was an incubator for now-legendary visual artists and musical icons. There were also way more non-chain, independent retailers, restaurants, galleries, etc...

At this location, and given what it replaced, this development is straight-up shit. Anyone apologizing for it or pretending to like it is high or stupid. I walk by this every weekday. This building sucks.

Fair points. I guess my own work- and leisure-travel demands are different (or have been, thusfar). Aside from instances where I *need* to be next to, say, a particular convention center, in either scenario being "fairly close" to a bunch of reasonably interesting/compelling/relevant stuff is...

Hotel Alexandra is walking distance from (or very short uber from if you’re lazy or weather is horrific): Northeastern, symphony hall, MFA, prudential center, Berklee, Fenway park, back bay, etc, and is IN the south end with all the restaurants etc that are located there. It’s not like this is...