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Re: Innovation Dist. / South Boston Seaport ^^Oh I forgot to include the observation that Draper Labs, which has how many millions of SF in Kendall square, while affiliated with MIT, is funded in large part by......you guessed it, the ubiquitous taxpayer to the tune of hundreds of millions of...

Re: Innovation Dist. / South Boston Seaport ^^ Rifleman, you seem stuck in attack mode over the use of taxpayer dollars on the Innovation District while extolling the virtues of the way Harvard and MIT do research in Cambridge. I love Harvard and MIT as much as the next guy, but $26 million in...

Re: Liberty Mutual plans major Boston expansion ^^hey jass (and any other mob conspiracy theorists out there), plenty of info/renderings/elevations/plans on the BRA website about the project. Not a bump-out, or an atrium, or an entrance, or a parking entrance - walk by there and you'll see an...

Re: Innovation Dist. / South Boston Seaport Ron, a few streets does not a downtown make. Not every street in a city can look like Newbury Street, and I certainly don't see how the plight of the few streets you mention (which I don't disagree with) has anything to do with the "political gaming"...

Re: Innovation Dist. / South Boston Seaport Sicilian, you're making my point perfectly. My point is simply that the "Politics" that Rifleman and others on this thread like to blame "stalled development" on actually has nothing to do with stalling development and that they should lay off the...

Re: Innovation Dist. / South Boston Seaport Lurker - how can you say that downtown is "run down, vacant, and slow to redevelop?" What part of downtown is "run down" and "vacant" with the exception of Filene's, whose demise had everything to do with the 2008 economic collapse and nothing to do...

Re: South Boston Seaport ^ What actual "shovel-ready" projects with real users (i.e. Vertex, Liberty Mutual) have been brought to the table as part of Seaport Square that would justify the application of a tax incentive? Thus not a consistancy issue on the city's side. If Seaport Square came to...

Re: South Boston Seaport ^ What tax breaks have been given to Hynes, Rifleman?

I can't believe how naive Campbell's argument is, and how foolish those of you on this board who buy into it sound - if he/you are suggesting that the architectural quality of developer buildings in Boston suffers because of the "goodies" that the "process" forces developers to pay, you're...

^ briv, you threaten me for expressing a well-informed (though perhaps unpopular) point-of-view and then allow Rifleman to periodically spew this kind of vitriolic, profane nonsense that is totally unfounded in fact or reality without censure? This board is starting to resemble the (alleged...

Briv, Sorry everyone thinks I'm becoming a nuisance. I like this board because differing opinions can - in theory - be freely expressed and discussed, and my interest is in the future of the city and especially the Greenway because it's one of the best parts IMHO. If my differeing opinions...

PS - DZH - everything lost money in 1989.

DZH, you wrote: "what reason does anyone actually have to CROSS and, thus, USE the greenway now?" Ummm...I dunno, the newly cleaned-up Harbor, the Aquarium, all the ferries/water taxis/commuter boats that pull up to Rowes and Long Wharves, Christopher Columbus Park, the Interconinental...

^ You're right - IP was built hard-fast against a highway ramp....that the developer knew was temporary because he'd been fighting with Secretary Salvucci about it and the location of his garage wall for years. And don't forget that IP was built AFTER Rowes Wharf, whose arch at the time opened...

^^ type001, what do you mean? Everyone else on here sees to think that one tower on the Harbor Garage site is the magic bullet that will magically "activate the Greenway" just like Chiofaro's propaganda claims. I seem to be the only one saying otherwise, that one more building amidst a sea of...

Mmmmkay....let me phrase my question more pointedly to Rifleman's specious assertion: How would the development of the Harbor Garage (and Congress St Garage) be transformative to the Greenway and turn it into all the things noted above? I don't understand how, when the Greenway runs alongside...

^^ Nice try type001...guess again. And Rifleman, how would those developments "help the Greenway reach its potential" exactly? Back when the CA/T was being planned, no one had any dreams of glory that the new park would be the most spectacular park in the world - we just all knew that it...

Re: The Boston Arch (Aquarium parking garage) Kent, sorry - had to jump in on your statement: "Why do you think many condo converted warehouse still reap in such a profit even when it is the least bit attracted *cough cough Greenway Place?*" Cough, cough - Greenway Place went bankrupt. Not...

Re: The Boston Arch (Aquarium parking garage) ^^^ HenryAlan, you asked the following question: "If this is what is possible to build given the existing zoning and legal framework, are you going to be happy with the result? It's a simple question, I'm not asking you to commit to changing your...

Re: The Boston Arch (Aquarium parking garage) ^^ Rifleman, you wrote: "Yes, we can agree that Chiofaro is not following proper protocal." So why is anyone on this board surprised that his project is not advancing? Why doesn't he at least try to follow the Article 80 protocol (pursuant to...