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Re: Innovation Dist. / South Boston Seaport The Seaport will evolve over time as things age, but right now, yeah, there's really nothing there for you unless you're upper-middle-class (at least) and probably childless. It lacks the diversity (economic, social, architectural) that makes so much...

I vote we just call it "Harry"

Re: South Station Tower "Recently, the state extended Hines’s development rights (at SST) through the end of this year, a company spokeswoman said."

Re: 61-83 Braintree st | Brighton True, Continuum is crazy expensive. But at least there you're down the street from Harvard Business School, among other things. This place is basically on top of the Turnpike and surrounded by crappy old warehouses and truck lots.

That mode share chart is a little confusing, but as I read it: 229,000 people from elsewhere in the region commute in to the city of Boston every day. Of those, 131,000 either drive alone or carpool. That's 57%. 97,600 people from the City of Boston leave the city for work. Of those, about...

No. You are not. They were (and remain today) a brilliant housing type.

Re: 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District The FOPG, etc, sure. But Galvin? What does he need money for? (Not really suggesting Galvin's motivations are pure here. Just never really clear what Galvin's motivations might be.)

Exactly. The morning bike traffic on Beacon/Hampshire and other streets that connect Somerville to east Cambridge is a sight to behold. As is the number of people who use the Red Line primarily between Kendall and Davis. These people are going to work every day. They're just not driving there.

Traffic is probably a more valid concern for most projects than shadows. If they're building ~2 million SF of office/lab space here, at least some of those people will certainly be driving to work. But. Yeah, Volpe's a half-block from a Red Line station. MIT is apparently planning to help...

Re: Seaport Parcels M1-M2 | Seaport Sq. | Seaport There's a TJ's going into 13,000 square feet in Allston, in that new apartment building over by Harvard Stadium. https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2016/09/16/trader-joe-land-hot-patch-allston/wf1M5dR0rYdQopXj3LR1WI/story.html You'd think...

Re: Seaport Parcels M1-M2 | Seaport Sq. | Seaport They are? Where?

Yeah. Looks like something might be coming soon, but this just extends the developer designation another six months. http://boston.siretechnologies.com/sirepubbra/cache/2/cxehua5xe0ysz125jbnjnng0/21236606152017010105274.PDF

It is?

Re: 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District I don't know. Feels like if we were seeking the "lowest common denominator in our race to the bottom," we'd tell the unions to get bent and go hire a bunch of undocumented immigrants and pay them half as much with no benefits. But then we wouldn't...

Re: 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District Boston is 46% white, 9% Asian, 22% black, 18% Hispanic, per most recent BRA data (which I believe is taken from Census data). http://www.bostonplans.org/getattachment/caf0d3fb-951d-4b0a-9181-9b41cdf59cf8 So the non-white, non-Asian population is...

Re: 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District Like West said, that doesn't really feel like the issue. There are lots of underemployed non-white people running around who'd love a good job in the trades. I think it's more about access to those jobs, which begins with training and apprentice...

This thing is absolutely enormous. When does it open?

Re: Hotel Tower | 560 Commonwealth Ave | Kenmore Square A digital subscription is $3.99 a week for the first year. http://subscribe.bostonglobe.com/B6455/?p1=BGHeader_SmartBar_Marketing_Sub

Re: Hotel Tower | 560 Commonwealth Ave | Kenmore Square Boston is immeasurably better off with a healthy Globe than it would be without. Gripe and snipe if you want, but the alternative is in no way preferable.

Is an ellipse that unusual? Or is it just unusual for the Seaport? It would seem, for instance, to allow natural light to hit alot deeper into the floors than your standard deep square or rectangle.