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Some people simply have too much money to spend. For those that missed this, what Payless Shoes did is priceless: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/payless-sold-discount-shoes-at-luxury-prices-and-it-worked/ Payless sold discount shoes at luxury prices — and it worked Last Updated Nov 29...

My bad. I guess that explains why the signs are still up :). There is a thread on the Mass page on city-data.com which tracks it. The forum starter, "wror", seems to be zealot who started one every time a town voted it down, which from what I can see on that site is at least Braintree, East...

Yes, the proverbial Puritan Dems. Those were my parents. As conservative as can be yet never voted R in their lives. I never could quite reconcile that.

Wayland for one. Can't drive through there without seeing the hordes of reefer madness signs. I saw a list of the hypocrite towns somewhere, I'll try to find it. And FK4, you have it completely ass-backwards. It's not the conservatives opposing, it's the liberal enclaves digging in, or at...

Not to go all O here, but in a city of tall buildings, I've never understand the difference between 700 feet vs 400 feet or what shaving a few stories any development accomplishes.

I'm not even sure it is old v. young as much as it is established vs. not. It's not only money driven, although we have tremendous old money around here. Look at who came out in force against Kraft when he wanted to put the stadium in the Seaport. Hell, Ned Flannery was the leader of bringing...

That's a chicken-egg argument. You can just as well state that our salaries are higher due to the high cost of living. Throw in basic economic supply-demand theory and there you have your housing cost paradigm. It's all relative. Of course the lower end of the spectrum gets screwed but public...

There is zero reason to lower the heights in this location. Boston is one seriously corrupt little hamlet. Meanwhile, Minneapolis of all places, figures it out and is going for upzoning across the board...

Does anyone know why they did not add a deceleration lane on the northbound side for the Dedham/Needham Route 135 Exit? I get that there is a town forest on one side, so probably a straight off ramp was out of the question, but with the prison and dpw yard on the other side, I think they could...

You have to like what Minneapolis is trying to do here. I think the pitch folk nimby's and their corrupt politician brethren would never allow such universal upzoning to even be discussed let alone brought to a vote, but at least some metro areas get it...

At a minimum an automatic and permanent loss of their CDL is appropriate. Who knows what else they ignore. There is really no excuse for it. Some of the Storrow stuff you can understand...college kids and out of towners... but given all of the signage even those should be severely punished.

Re: Suffolk Downs Redevelopment Not to mention they have royally fucked up Whole Foods. While it was expensive, it was quality. Quality is shot.

You do know that a new non-compete law went into effect Oct 1 in Mass? Any agreement signed after then will require payment for the non-compete.

I'd disagree. It isn't an unproven conspiracy of the automakers, it is a fact. They simply stopped making trolleys which were firmly established throughout the land. Predatory industry practices occur continuously in an open market. Bigger companies buy up smaller competitors with superior...

Re: Site in Hub top choice for a soccer stadium Fantastic, we now know what his number is, but did it happen? No, it didn't. You can accept the media spin all you want but until there is a shovel in the ground, I will remain viewing the situation based on economic reality, not after the fact...

Re: Site in Hub top choice for a soccer stadium Ok, well that's all well and good. But if there is anything that is obvious in this long running saga it's that Kraft is not going to build without an ROI he is comfortable with, whatever that may be. This is an economics exercise by a luke warm...

Re: Site in Hub top choice for a soccer stadium There is zero chance that the fine people of Chestnut Hill would ever allow it. As it is, for football games they bus people in from office park car lots 10 miles away. Even if everyone took the green line, the opposition from the neighborhood...

My daughter lives in a high rise similar to this concept at her school. IMO, the cost is minimally above the regular dorm cost. Almost all of the units are either 2 bedroom suites (with 2 students per room) or 4 bedroom suites (all singles). The units are rented per student, not per suite. The...

At least your shitty office building brings in natural light. Or appears to at least. Who knows what the fine folks at EF will be cooking up for the kids as they toil in that dungeon.

Does anyone know where to find that documentary? I’ve looked around but all of the links to it are broken or websites are down. The twitter account hasn’t been updated since 2016. The arson for profit of the 70’s certainly wasn’t unique to Boston. It’s very reminiscent to what was happening in...