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Re: Gov't Center Garage Redevelopment For not hearing much out of Palmeiri since taking over as head of BRA, this isn't how I wanted him to project new leadership. Deflecting allegations. Don't want to piss off your potential new boss. How gracious of Raymond to accept responsibility...its...

Re: Mandarin developers eye Pike parcels for project The Chiofaro proposal is 396'.....I'm not opposed to the height, I just want to know how it is reconciled that 396' is ok here, but ~270' was too tall for a tower on the same street frontage that was set further back from Boylston and was...

Area C is already a defacto off-leash dog run.....Every morning its like a "boys club" with the same guys playing fetch with their dogs

Re: Mandarin developers eye Pike parcels for project Thanks for those. I would have to pick The Chiofaro Co. and Trinity to complete the buildout of all parcel with a few caveats. Why does Chiofaro have the glass facade facing the river and the brick facade facing the Hilton? It should be...

Re: W Hotel Does Starwood/W have any capital in this project? Sawyer is the developer, but I'm not sure who will ultimately own the hotel component. Starwood/W might simply be the operator and brand for hire. I can't think of any reason this would stop unless contractors stopped getting...

Re: 45 Province St Oh....really? :( Its "natural" unpainted silver would have been better...or maybe multi-colored. Did I mention cladding it in glass? :)

Re: 45 Province St At this point, bring on the Alucobond. :)

Re: Columbus Center ^ That's all misleading, once again, at best. TIF and DIF financing is paid by future revenues from a project or district. The calculations are based on additional revenues created, therefore the additional interest and principal liability are covered by the project and...

Re: Russia Wharf What a puff piece quoting people who want to pick up some listings.

Some proximity is given to proximity, but it is I believe 1/2 mile, and if I remember correctly only maybe half the seats are guaranteed to people who live in that ring. Living in Back Bay there is no school that is in that radius, though I do understand the desire for people in North End and...

Re: Gov't Center Garage Redevelopment The problem with requiring a school here is there really aren't neighborhood schools. I sent my child to Boston Public School for 1st grade (2 years ago) and moved him to a private school in second grade. First, the public school wasn't convenient (it...

Re: 45 Province St It's directly across an ally from the Parker House hotel, and the new Nine Zero hotel is right on the adjacent block as well. There isn't much to redevelop here except the couple of old shops on Bromfield. I'm shocked that they didn't just clad that wall in a reflective glass.

Re: Filene's Because equity typically demands a greater return than debt, so the only way to up the equity would be to dilute the returns, and I'm not sure how other investors would feel about that. I get the sense that Hynes is already sold his personal stake for less than market value to...

Re: Gov't Center Garage Redevelopment I completely agree about Albany and I almost posted it as my initall gut reaction, but I looked at some pictures at Empire State Plaza first and decided the resemblance wasn't as strong as I thought....but YES YES YES the gut reaction screams Albany!

Re: Shreve, Crump & Low bldng may be replaced w/ new develop Other end of the block.....the SCL building to be demoed is catty-corner (across Boylston and Arlington) to the Public Garden.

Re: W Hotel I've just decided that I like it. Maybe a bit too wide along Stuart, but I like the shiny/translucent facade. The area is a bit over-(soot stained) bricked and this building really pops in part of town that for being an entertainment district is amazingly drab thanks to the...

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Michael Ross lives in Mission Hill? Never knew that.

Did the environmental study for the blue-line to Charles/MGH ever get completed? I doubt it, but if so, that would be a worthy project for these grants that will probably never be funded otherwise.

Re: Congress St Garage is being sold. I agree that the aquarium garage is a better place for something like the Cooke & Fox or even Gensler proposal. There really is no expectations for that site, and an awkward streel level presence would be par for their course in that strip. To czsz....I...