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    Downtown/Financial district infill and small developments

    They want to get rid of the building because NOAA has offices there and because science is fake and gay and communist. That’s the entire logic behind it.
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    Data Centers (from Downtown/Financial district infill)

    No, the largest colocation centers are in the boonies, often near airports where the power isn't a worry. Fiber runs cheap these days.
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    South Station Tower | South Station Air Rights | Downtown

    Prion disease architecture.
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    Data Centers (from Downtown/Financial district infill)

    Because a real estate guy made a savvy move 30 years ago, and that’s why.
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    Data Centers (from Downtown/Financial district infill)

    This is, again, why a land value tax would make low value uses like “data center” move to low cost places.
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    Data Centers (from Downtown/Financial district infill)

    lol in the very example she gave the colocation is underneath 20 stories of offices
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    Data Centers (from Downtown/Financial district infill)

    And what’s above the data center in the Verizon Building? [an office building]
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    Data Centers (from Downtown/Financial district infill)

    No. This is just a building constructed without dedicated mechanical floors. The fan coil units, chillers, condensers went on the roof as a matter of convenience, but nothing requires them to be there. If a data center is so critical, it could be built on a much smaller footprint in a building...
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    Data Centers (from Downtown/Financial district infill)

    You can easily split the site in two. It’s huge.
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    Data Centers (from Downtown/Financial district infill)

    The data center is a curse, not a blessing. There could be homes for 1000 people at this site, plus the Macy’s, plus the data center.
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    Northeastern University - Institutional Master Plan

    Universities need places like that!
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    Northeastern University - Institutional Master Plan

    Demolishing that huge building on Greenleaf would be a legitimate loss. It would make the area feel a lot less urban and a lot more like anycampus USA.
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    Simmons University Living and Learning Center | 300 Fenway | Longwood

    This one is going to be super visible and it’s a shame it’s another offset window Elkus Manfredi heap.
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    South Station Tower | South Station Air Rights | Downtown

    I mean capitalizing on the lab boom by building homes and actually allowing those workers to live in the city, thereby strengthening our civic institutions and tax base.
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    South Station Tower | South Station Air Rights | Downtown

    When the story is written about how Boston failed to capitalize on the once-in-lifetime biotech boom, there will be chapter about how there is a hard, artificial cap on density exactly at the nexus of the region’s transit system.
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    Idea for fixing the housing shortage

    Oh boy a study.
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    Idea for fixing the housing shortage

    FDNY argued that congestion pricing would make firefighting in Manhattan impossible and that response times would increase and of course the opposite has happened.
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    Idea for fixing the housing shortage

    Firefighters are almost universally right wing cranks at this point and their opinions on architecture and urban planning must be discarded.
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    BPDA Austin Street Parking Lot Development | Charlestown

    The fields will be unusable due to air quality and nobody will cross Rutherford even with the “road diet” that doesn’t actually fix the road.
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    Bulfinch Crossing | Congress Street Garage | West End

    Whoever is responsible for approving that lab should be executed in public.

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