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    Columbus Center: RIP | Back Bay

    Re: Columbus Center ^ Ned, can you please define "Luxury Housing Grant" for me? I had never heard of it before, so I asked Google, and apparantly neither has anyone else. Also, what is the difference between a "work tax credit" and a "wage tax credit". Finally, what specifically at C.C...
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    Columbus Center: RIP | Back Bay

    Re: Columbus Center Flooring, facades, windows, lighting, condo finishes, office finishes, etc. The term engineering in value engineering isn't necessarily limited to what saving a structural engineer can find. There are other things....post-tension as opposed to pre-tension. Driven piles...
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    Mandarin Oriental | 776 Boylston St | Back Bay

    Re: Mandarin Oriental It looks like Alucobond. http://www.alucobondusa.com/what_overview.asp
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    Avalon Exeter | 77 Exeter Street | Back Bay

    Re: New Tower(s) Planned For Prudential Center The idea of height in this location is non-sensical....as far as traffic, etc, the easy neighborhood request if for Boston Properties to pay whatever it would take to reopen the Boylston St. entrance for the Hynes T stop, and maybe put money in an...
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    Columbus Center: RIP | Back Bay

    Re: Columbus Center It's called politics....there's a million analogies....simply said, if you need a project in your district to receive government subsidies, then sometimes you are at the mercy of other (more powerful) politicians who will expect you to support them on issues they deem...
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    Seaport Square (Formerly McCourt Seaport Parcels)

    Not bad....I like that small scale and the fact that there is something contemporary as opposed to the styleless concrete boxes that are invading the area. The water shouldn't be dominated, and I think this is an interesting tranisition in scale between the Barfing Crab and what will certainly...
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    Columbus Center: RIP | Back Bay

    Re: Columbus Center Recipe for news article: Add 1 cup of complete lack of knowledge of real estate finance Add 2 tablespoons of mis-association between a Pension fund and a state government Apply liberal amount of conjecture Mix briskly with semantics Carefully season with UFP's (warning...
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    Avalon Exeter | 77 Exeter Street | Back Bay

    Re: New Tower(s) Planned For Prudential Center That's a signature plaza, huh? hmmmmm.....
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    Avalon Exeter | 77 Exeter Street | Back Bay

    Re: New Tower(s) Planned For Prudential Center And Boston Properties that I'm sure was eyeing 17 stories the entire time....win-win, sort of.
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    What color would Hitler paint his taxis?

    Re: W Hotel On the counter point....I like knowing which cab company is affiliated with the driver that I am getting into. I refuse to take Top Cab unless I'm forced (such as being unlucky in line at Logan) They seem to have a much looser set of standards for cab cleanliness and driver...
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    Fenway Center (One Kenmore) | Turnpike Parcel 7, Beacon Street | Fenway

    Re: One Kenmore (Mass Turnpike PARCEL 7) Oh no....in the CC thread, he insisted that One Kenmore was the model of turnpike development....
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    What color would Hitler paint his taxis?

    Re: W Hotel They all are white....
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    Copley Place Expansion and Tower | Back Bay

    Re: Copley Place plan calls for condo tower Hmmm....doing a search for Robert Feldman, it looks like he lives at Constitution Landing in North End. This is what the developer of CL had to say about that project. I'm looking for the evidence that Bobby's humble building reflects the "current...
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    Columbus Center: RIP | Back Bay

    Re: Columbus Center Can someone take a picture of the "mess" on Cortes St....it's hard for me to visualize how their ideallyic view of the Pike has been somehow marred to the point that it's not longer the scenic overlook it once was.
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    Copley Place Expansion and Tower | Back Bay

    Re: Copley Place plan calls for condo tower If you had zoomed in on those side elevations, you could probably see the actual height delineations.....a lot do this in feet above sea level, but they should have a ground floor height as well, and some 2nd grade math does the rest.
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    Bulfinch Crossing | Congress Street Garage | West End

    Re: Congress St Garage is being sold. ^ Interesting in concept, but wouldn't this encourage big block development, especially in delicate places like Chinatown. A developer could "claim" several adjoining properties to create a nice big square building footprint. The landlords likely can't...
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    Silver Line - Phase III / BRT in Boston

    Re: Silver Line Phase III If it ain't rail...don't build it.....even when I lived in the Leather District I'd take Red Line to Park, Green to GC, then Blue to the airport to avoid the Silver Line.....bumpy, slowly, and constantly have to answer the question of why the power all of a sudden died...
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    Downtown Crossing/Financial District | Discussion

    You could probably even negotiate in the world's longest shuffleboard court....
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    Downtown Crossing/Financial District | Discussion

    Toby......any chance of new elevators to go with the King Ramses II exhibit? Me, until recently, an 101 Archer....the wife, until recently, a F.M. 31 St. Jameser...she was one of the last to leave....literally 1 person to every 25 cubes, and she was on the only occupied floor. I do miss Park...

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