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Ah, urban in concept, ugly in execution. A new facade could fix all this.

Red brick especially. Dark red brick is oppressive when used beyond a certain height.

It looks very remeniscent of the New York skyline in the early twentieth century....no flat-topped buildings. I, for one, am very grateful you took the time to do this.

Re: $1 billion development proposed to reshape downtown Quincy BUT.......If we'll accept less, less is all we're ever going to get!

Re: Gov't Center Garage Redevelopment Why should anyone object to selling the police station for this development? One, the city gets paid for the property. Two, the property will become tax producing. Three, the city gets a new police station at no cost to the city.

There was a five-and-dime store on Washington Street near Bromfield called, "Niesner's". It was L-shaped, and there was an entrance on Bromfield as well.

Re: Congress St Garage is being sold. Then lets all work to make sure the proposed heights are maintained. These heights seem reasonable for this area, and the ovedr-all concept is a pretty good one. It's very urban.

Re: One Bromfield (28-story tower @ DTX) Then perhaps we need a new thread: Downtowns vs. malls. You'll never know what you've destroyed over time by preferring malls to downtowns. Malls are so anti-urban, and they give you far fewer options that downtowns once did. I see their controlled...

Re: One Bromfield (28-story tower @ DTX) ^^^Mostly victims of the mall mentality, and this IS shocking and appalling. I, for one, avoid them at all possible costs. Give me downtowns anyday regardless of the weather. Give me a real environment instead of a contrived and synthetic one.

Re: One Bromfield (28-story tower @ DTX) "Shocking"? It's downright appalling!

Re: One Bromfield (28-story tower @ DTX) Proposals for enclosing Washington Street and Summer Street were made in the late sixties. They also included second story sidewalks that connected the entire system to South Station. The proposal for One Bromfield is underwhelming to say the least.

^Whatever happened to that scheme for depressing Massachusetts in a tunnel?

^ It relied on much more than Boston residents. People came from far and wide to do their shopping in downtgown. They even came from other states....and specifically to shop.

That would be an excellent start.

Re: 28-story tower planned for Downtown Crossing ^ True. "Canyonization" is not always a bad thing. At least this project will infuse the area with more density. Although I would like to see the base resemble at least four different buildings, at a mere six stories, it will lend solidity to...

In all fairness, I think the biggest problem with Back Bay Station is its lighting. It is so bad, I have never entered this space without feeling instantly unclean. It taints everything it is purported to illuminate.

^Columbus Center in its proposed location does a lot of good for the city, but, yes, the parking garage IS a monstrosity, and Back Bay Station is a pathetic, cringing, dingy excuse for a transportation hub.

^Then perhaps it's not so much that we lack density close to the inner core, but more that we have extended the far reaches of the whole metropolitan area. Our CSA includes multiple counties in New Hampshire and the entire state of Rhode Island now.

Ablarc, the maladies you just described so masterfully all fall under the realm of ignorant urban notions, and they are true maladies resulting in sick cities with poor prognoses. How do we find a cure?

I think you're being unnecessarily belittling and negative here. Boston is NOT tiny. It's the core for a CSA of seven-and-a-half million people, making it the fifth largest in the USA. In addition, it is ranked ELEVENTH worldwide in the list of global cities by GDP. Much smaller markets...