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Re: The Boston Arch (Aquarium parking garage) ^ Kent, you wrote: "the BRA does not have the power to dictate how the building is designed besides height." Look, you and everyone else here might not like what I have to say, but at least I don't wreak of naivete and utter lack of familiarity...

Re: The Boston Arch (Aquarium parking garage) Since so many of you have been interested in my post on this....I am not even going to dignify this latest PR stunt with any opinion about what it would or wouldn't look like or would or wouldn't mean for the Greenway etc etc, all for the following...

Re: The Boston Arch (Aquarium parking garage) ^ Was a failure for the buyer, but certainly not for the seller, who was the one that actually permitted the site and complied with Chapter 91.....plus the reason the project was a failure had nothing to do with regulations, it had to do with a...

Re: The Boston Arch (Aquarium parking garage) ^^tobyjug, Theran made his own decision to purchase permits that were already in place for what he purchased them for...plenty of other developers have made plenty of $$ complying with Chapter 91.

Re: The Boston Arch (Aquarium parking garage) A: The Harborpark Plan was developed in the late 1980s through a years-long community planning process and was the precursor planning/public realm vision document that became the Harborpark zoning district. B: 1990 Boston Municipal Harbor Plan...

Re: The Boston Arch (Aquarium parking garage) Hi briv, I'm not trying to influence public opinion or promote opposition to anything - I'm just sharing my perspective just as others share theirs, albeit with more focus on factual background. I'm certainly very interested in this project and this...

Re: The Boston Arch (Aquarium parking garage) Sicilian I think it is you who is being evasive....after attacking me for not knowing the facts about the Harborpark Zoning and the MHP, I clearly presented the facts about these as they apply to the Harbor Garage site and you're now saying that you...

Re: The Boston Arch (Aquarium parking garage) Sicilian: Harborpark Zoning District = Article 42A. Available on the web. And you can have a copy too, just download it. And since you seem to believe that it's comonplace to "override" Chapter 91 (btw - a PDA can't override Chapter 91 - you're...

Re: The Boston Arch (Aquarium parking garage) Arborway, I'm afraid that your lack of specific knowledge about the facts in this case is embarrassing and render your posts somewhat laughable. You ignore the fact that there is, in fact, a well-documented development review process in the city...

Re: The Boston Arch (Aquarium parking garage) ^ Hey, at least Filene's and LM will actually get built (either currently or someday in the foreseeable future...leaving CC out of that statement) and create jobs, tax revenue, etc etc....unlike the Harbor Garage site, whose developer has publicly...

Re: The Boston Arch (Aquarium parking garage) ^ Are you suggesting that this is like Chiofaro wanting to build himself and his family a house? And is there any evidence whatsoever that the BRA has ever "refused" to meet with Chiofaro? I think not.

Re: Filene's ^ I wouldn't have bought the site in the first place without a permitting contingency for some pipe-dream project knowing I'd have to comply with Chapter 91 and the Harborpark zoning, thus, no need to estimate the project's cost in the first place. Plus, you say "you don't know...

Re: Filene's ^ Kent, how can you possibly say that Chiofaro "has no estimate of the cost" when he constantly brags about his fictitious "billion-dollar project" in the media...are you saying he's making that up out of nowhere? Only trouble is, it's not a "billion-dollar" anything absent...

Re: The Boston Arch (Aquarium parking garage) ^ It's called the Harborpark Plan, ca. 1990 - I don't have a link to it unfortunately but it was, if memory serves, very much a multi-faceted master plan such as the type for which you advocate, and it ultimately formed the basis for the 1991...

Re: The Boston Arch (Aquarium parking garage) Sicilian, You're right - they should have done just that - and they did. The zoning along the Harbor side of the Greenway dates to 1991, the year the CA/T project started. And it's 155 feet. I still don't see what the big deal is. If you don't...

Re: The Boston Arch (Aquarium parking garage) Eh, huff and puff all you want, but the bottom line is that the project that dutifully followed the Article 80 process, has the money, and has the occupant already lined up is in construction right now, and the project whose developer either refuses...

Re: The Boston Arch (Aquarium parking garage) ^^ Rifleman, first of all, try to answer the question about whether Chiofaro bought the garage with "his own money" as you assert. Second, if you had any idea the way a TIF works you'd recognize that the city isn't doing anything "on the taxpayers...

Re: The Boston Arch (Aquarium parking garage) ^^ Rifleman, you wrote: "You have a private developer who buys the sight [sic] with his own money" Oh really? Does anyone know what the actual ownership/investment split is between Chiofaro and Prudential? I'd be willing to bet that he has almost...

Re: The Boston Arch (Aquarium parking garage) Briv, it's not about me - though I'd like to see the thing get redeveloped as much as the next guy or everyone on this page - but I'd advocate for something more realistic and consistent with its context, like Rowes Wharf (which, by the way, if the...

Re: The Boston Arch (Aquarium parking garage) Too bad the reporter never asked where he was going to get the money to build this thing, after having to throw IP into bankruptcy to keep even a small position and after losing a 350,000 SF tenant to the Prudential Center...I know everyone on this...