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A Planned Development Area (PDA) permitting process is an opportunity to set a desired framework in zoning (massing, public realm, mix of uses). For a 31-acre master plan, the initial PDA approval is the ONLY opportunity the City of Boston will have to consider visionary objectives because, once...

I was the guy that went up three times. Why? Because we were limited to 2 minutes and I wanted to provide 5 minutes of input. The least you could do is be honest in your disagreement with me. For the record, I only occasionally return to ArchBoston because of the intolerance and tired NIMBY vs...

Below: BPDA and Millennium's bait-and-switch of January 2018, following 1.5 years of dog and pony shows. Worth noting that in January 2018, while media headlines (and scores of comments by Tosh33/Odurandina) focused on a tower height haircut of 10%, the project increased in size to 1.6 msf...

I've answered this before and Rifleman elected to ignore my response. CLF was deeply engaged in the drafting and approval of the South Boston Waterfront Municipal Harbor Plan (ca. 2000), under which 21-acre Fan Pier secured its Chapter 91 licensing at EOEA. The Menino administration, relying on...

They did. CLF was deeply engaged in the South Boston Waterfront Municipal Harbor Plan process. You didn't read one of my posts above describing what CLF accomplished at Fan Pier by digging in there, aggravating the landowner, administration and individuals such as yourself.

Following along that narrative, CLF must not have minded Atlantic Wharf because it didn't block that billionaire's view? And all those attorneys at CLF, with impressive resumes thrown out the window to shill in exchange for their modest salaries, didn't get the message during Equity Office's MHP...

The Municipal Harbor Plan that CLF challenged is 42 acres. The Harbor Garage project occupies roughly 2 acres. To be clear, CLF didn't challenge the Harbor Garage project.

As master developer for equity stakeholder MassMutual, Fallon Co acquired Fan Pier from the Pritzker family. Development rights and open space were already permitted in the form of a master plan (PDA) and a Chapter 91 license already approved in a Municipal Harbor Plan. ICA had already broken...

I'm not going to dredge up the history of this project here. The standards for what passes muster in most of these AB posts is troubling, because it matches exactly what passes muster in my neighborhoood. But at least let's get the facts straight. No public access existed because neither BPDA...

You calling me out before I've even commented? For the record, I've been advocating for a *minimum* of 10,000 housing units on the SB Waterfront since 1997. And supported upwards of 30msf of new construction during "planning." Well documented. While I'm generally supportive of CLF's work on the...

Re: Innovation Dist. / South Boston Seaport Revisionism. There were scores of meetings held between 1997 and 2003, after Kraft was given the boot, well over 100 meetings hosted by BRA alone (PRP, MHP, etc). Over 1,000 area stakeholders, including an entire Seaport Focus Team from BSA...

Re: 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District Too much revisionism for me to remain silent. The following public investments and construction projects were wrapping up in the Seaport between 1995 and 2005: BCEC construction Central Artery tunnel ramps MBTA Silver Line infra and tunnel...

Development of at least one hotel on a site claimed in residential totals seems more than likely. As one example, the Convention Center authority's comment letter on the NPC states, "The MCCA is also encouraged that WS Development has included plans for an additional, and a substantial full...

Not exactly. While public statements by the proponent and a chart in the NPC indicate a decrease in hotel uses and and an increase in residential uses, the devil is in the details. In the text of the NPC, every remaining block identified as residential (and used to arrive at a total of 3,200...

Re: 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District Maybe $14-16M? Seaport Square lots with development rights for towers averaging 250' are selling at $29M per acre. Prior sales of vacant lots in the Seaport were averaging $26M/acre. As for location by comparison. I assume you've seen this...

Re: 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District So bring a Winthrop Square tower in at 400' under existing law; bring in $50M for land acquisition and development rights; and get BPDA to do its job, planning downtown and downtown waterfront for significant density (perhaps residential). Towers...

Re: 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District New drinking game: Every time a height fetishist on this board cites "density" to hammer a so-called NIMBY. To verify who is a height fetishist and who is a density advocate, search this board to see how eagerly said height fetishist participates...

Re: 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District "until the head gardener/groundskeeper at the public garden comes forth to say ..." That's exactly what FOPG, supported by data, not conjecture, has been saying. FOPG is also the caretaker of trees on Boston Common, which they also state (in fora...

Re: 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District Can you identify the two meetings? I'll ask BPDA for notes. In those meetings, were you viewing presentations by Winthrop Square proponents or by concerned organizations such as Friends of the Public Garden? Because FOPG has had no such forum...

Re: 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District Should I assume you are a horticulturalist or arborist studied in shadow impacts on flowers, grass and trees on Boston Common and in the Public Garden? Or should I assume the Friends of the Public Garden's horticulturalists are NIMBYs? Was there...