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Re: Boston Globe Site Redevelopment | Dorchester Sounds about right. That's 2 developers who have backed out in 2 years in a white hot market.

Re: Site in Hub top choice for a soccer stadium The Breakers (Women's Pro Team) used it for a few seasons and its age certainly showed. I think it would need to be totally rebuilt for the modern day sports fan. Harvard certainly hasn't shown any interest whatsoever in modernizing it over the...

The obvious disdain for the messenger doesn't take away from the misuse of TIF funds and the ire that results. With Vertex and most other seaport tax breaks, they simply facilitated companies that weren't going anywhere. Here, they simply took from Cambridge, and let's face it, a pharma company...

Look right across the Charles: https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2015/05/20/middlesex/K5N3YJfxc3DZwjaoTj4CEL/story.html Neighbors who sued to cut Cambridge tower’s height lose in court By Casey Ross Globe Correspondent May 20, 2015 A $250 million redevelopment plan for the former...

There is no way they will build a medium sized hotel on the island, let alone in Aquinnah. There are barely any hotels there as it is. Just because they received the go ahead on a gaming license doesn't mean they have the right to build a hotel.

Re: Suffolk Downs Redevelopment Potential With all due respect to Spencer, that town is tough to get to.

I know, inoffensive as well but unfortunately for the buyer, those trends of the day rarely age well.

No worries, the oppressive-dictator owned greedy-oil-company beacon is here to stay: http://www.wcvb.com/article/citgo-sign-will-stay-in-kenmore-square-city-announces-a-deal/9137304

Yup, very tacky look for Boston. Where are they getting these interior designers from?

Re: 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District I think you might be right and I stand corrected, however I thought it reverted to city control at some point after it was built and well established.

What a clusterfuck. Rhode Island will never change. Is the Wexford thing even for real? Are they proposing to build on spec or do they have committed (or interested) tenants?

Re: 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District Fuck that, the Greenway is Boston's jewel, and they should pay for it, not the state. If the city takes state local aide or grant dollars and allocates it there, so be it. But no special funding should be given to it.

I don't get the obsession either. And ever since they moved their roaster operations down south, the coffee is barely drinkable. I will go far out of my way to find something else, although my wife and kids still like that slop so I often get stuck with it. The donuts are lacking too since they...

++++ 1 and to tysmith too. Blow the piece of shit up.

Spot on stick. I will never wrap my head around this height aversion thing. To me, going from 3 stories to 10 is significant but going from 300-400 feet to 500-600 doesn't matter except from a distant view. Christ, they are trying to fill in the Pike scar here. Exactly what is the lesser of two...

With all due respect, what exactly is Tito & company's opposition? Is it simply not enough affordable housing? Gentrification of the neighborhood? I may be incredibly naive, but it wasn't that long ago that this was an extremely dangerous area. The rank and file of the community should certainly...

I didn't mean to be condescending but rather making a point that it is a very expensive city with a small town mentality as the citizens do identify with their villages. That said, lots of towns have changed dramatically since the 1800's but the nimby mindset of protecting their area at all...

While Newtonites may want to view themselves as a peer comparable to the towns you mention, that is simply due to their relative average incomes combined with their "villages" mindset. The fact is that it is a city of 85K compared to Lexington at 31K, Needham 28K, Wellesley 27K & Weston 11K...

This one works pretty well in Bellevue, WA...

This quote pretty much sums up the beautiful people's attitude re: 40B - In Newton, Fredrick Arnstein, president of Neighbors for a Better Newtonville, said the 40B law “was probably well-intended, and has probably done some good, but it’s a bane for many communities, and quite irrational.”