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I think the question is in regards to the three reddish towers. Those are the government housing towers by Alewife in Cambridge. They don't look so bad in this shot!

Re: Fenway HoJo Devil's advocate: In twenty years this Hilton Garden Inn will be a piece of garbage and trendy urbanists will beg for it's replacement. Somebody on a board like this will share a picture of the 1970s funky Howard Johnson's with it's old trademark angular roof, and people will...

Re: 93 South Dorchester The best worst part of this building is that the lighter vomit/diarrhea colored panels actually change color as you drive past them. When there is no light on these panels, they actually can look deep orange/brown. It's very interesting. The whole thing is one gigantic...

Boston Olympics does not make sense for 2020, but 2032 sounds about right. That's when Gillette Stadium will have run its course and need replacement. My guess is that this isn't even a considerable option until we have a need for a real, 80,000 seat stadium. Soccer ain't going to cut it. By...

This shot of the Old Hancock Tower was taken from within the New Hancock Tower - not sure what floor, appears to be around the 7th floor?

I'm embarrassed to say, the second video made me throw up in my mouth a little.

Re: Atlantic Wharf (formerly Russia Wharf) Great shot! You can see many of Boston's newest buildings in that shot: - W Hotel - Two Financial Center - Archstone Combat Zone - One Lincoln - State Street - Fan Pier - Russia Wharf

The problem is that most of us here are a minority. Having attended countless community meetings across Greater Boston on behalf of countless developers, the people who come out the loudest are the people who don't want anything, anywhere. No matter what. Menino is simply a facilitator of...

If the Greeks could handle the Olympics then I'm quite sure the Brazilians can handle it. And yes, I know that the Greeks could not handle the Olympics and were bailed out from epic worldwide embarrassment by the Germans and other EU partners. Greek solution to the pool complex roof not...

Re: Verizon Building Tower Yikes! A humongous yellow brick wall, with a stick-on, out-of-context glassy entrance? Is that new addition some kind of core/elevator building? It looks OK, but this is stylized rendering. The reality will likely be much more brutish/heavy. Can't imagine the back...

Yay - Polanski debate! Let's spice things up even more: I'm glad he's in jail. I hate when rich old white guys get away with treating women like shit. I think that it doesn't matter if the perpetrator is a wealthy/powerful man, or a regular average Joe on the street - justice should attempt...

My issue is more about the size of Dorchester than it's current bad name. Dorchester was once a city like Cambridge or Brookline that was annexed to Boston. So as Cambridge has vastly different sections, so too does the former city of Dorchester. I live in a Victorian neighborhood of triple...

If the mods think this is spam, then go ahead and delete the post, but there is a real estate agency in Dorchester that divided Dorchester into four regions - and then broke the data down based on these regions. It's amazing. Prices in the bad, western neighborhoods of Dorchester have lost all...

I love how they wait until after the ink is dry on the law firm lease before announcing the gypsy village to come! Hey who knows, could be an opportunity for something really cool. Or it could be a typical creation of Menino and his buddy Joe Fallon - the man who blessed our city with Park...

Let's try to be honest here. This is bad news for Boston and bad news for Fan Pier. A tenant leaving one building to downgrade and pay less rent in a different building is not "good news for Boston" - it is bad news for the property taxes and real estate values in the entire city. It is...

Well... you were all right, and so was Barrack Obama. The $800B stimulus bill saved us all. Just as Obama said, if we didn't pass the bill, unemployment might go up as high as 9.5% - by passing the bill, unemployment fell to 8.5% by the summer of 2009 and we are on strong footing right now...

Mayor Menino - shrug Mike Flaherty - more of the same... but worse Yoon - Rent control? Moron. McCrea - only guy running without an office in City Hall. He's made good money and been successful in the real world, so how hard can it be to be successful in government? Menino will win with...

Re: 93 South Dorchester My neighborhood group got to "vote" on the South Bay billboard. The Union Las Vegas Television within an actual residential neighborhood... well... that was taken out of our hands. That wasn't for us to decide. I don't recall the WGBH billboard ever planning gaudy...

In all serious - a well-landscaped Dunkin Donuts on each and every single parcel of the Greenway would be a huge improvement. Seriously. It could be called the Dunkin Greenway, pay for itself, and be much, much more lively and interesting than the current median strips.

Haha - "executive experience"! You missed the point 100% entirely!