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North Hall and South Hall at Simmons are very stately masonry buildings. It's a shame they're just getting demolished.

Move the airport out into the Harbor as a man-made island as part of a flood barrier system, restore Logan as parkland.

The most accurate thing one could do for his Wikipedia page is to delete it for lack of relevance.

He won the RFP in 2015, ten years ago.

He's currently doing this exact same thing in Charlotte, NC: https://www.axios.com/local/charlotte/2024/06/25/brooklyn-village-construction-redevelopment-delay

Don Peebles's fawning wikipedia article was written by user "Kpryles550." I wonder if there any people at the Peebles Corporation with such an interesting name...

It’s not going to be anything! There is no proposal here and no developer.

Might be worth noting that Don Peebles’s lengthy Wikipedia page was written by one account that signed up 15 years ago, promptly wrote 1000 words about Don Peebles, and then never edited a different page again.

Don Peebles’s entire career has been winning RFPs for sites like this, dicking around for ten years, and never building anything. The state needs to try again, maybe with an actual developer.

look at this dummy

Downtown Boston took a massive course of antibiotics and it killed off the disease and healthy gut biome along with it. It’s a major American urban center full of closed shops and a couple of strip clubs. To go to an independent movie theater you have to go Cambridge or Brookline.

We should hope for more remnants of the combat zone. At least there were people out on the streets.

Gotta get the misaligned windows gloop onto even the smallest project.

Fixing the interior of South Station is actually an easy task. Expensive, but not particularly difficult. The mechanical equipment currently sitting on the flat roof over the waiting area needs to be moved to the headhouse portion (or replaced there). Then the existing flat roof and its trusses...

Architecture intended to induce mental illness.

Boston is unfortunately in love with its only black developer who can’t build anything and won’t build anything and never will build anything.

FRP theoretically falling off bridges is the least concerning environmental hazard facing the Charles River.

As long as they keep the historic courtyard building next year. That thing is so lovely.

You don't want to try to match the existing brick because it will 100% certainly not work and will look awful.