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Height isn't everything. We'd have a much better city (Seaport, in particular) if we developed in a lower-rise fashion with all our attention focused on maximizing the street-level experience. I'd rather we follow the London model of urban planning and design than the NYC model. The presence...

Even if 50% of all traffic using the 93 tunnels terminates in Boston, that would still relegate 50% of all cars using 93 onto local city streets. It would have been worse than the traffic on the elevated expressway since that had neither cross streets nor traffic lights. It would be gridlock...

Unless we discover some miracle fuel, when gas hits $10 per gallon -- and it will -- towns like Hopkinton and Franklin will be doomed. People in the far suburbs will be looking to move closer to the central urban area simply because the cost of commuting (or driving everywhere to accomplish...

True, but Logan's proximity has always made it a more valuable asset for Boston than Dulles has been to downtown DC (as compared to National). But your point is taken: millions spent on expanding transit infrastructure in other cities, while our system remains less than satisfactory to our liking.

BLS?

Re: South Boston Seaport The last time I flew out of Logan (within the past month or so), we made a bee-line for the Southie and banked hard to the right once we were directly over the Seaport. I had never experienced a takeoff that brought me so close to where buildings could be. I always...

100% agree

I like it.

Re: Liberty Mutual plans major Boston expansion Looks like the JFK federal building cut on the bias

They're near the Newton border, but they're in Needham.

That's kind of like moving next to Logan and complaining about the noisy planes. I love when people move next door to a known "menace" (in this case, a stadium with bright lights, a blaring public address system, filled with over 35000 screaming fans), something which existed long before they...

hospital in NYC?

I don't want to be like the proverbial skunk at the picnic, but ideas like this cancer garden are just wrong. I say this as someone who lost a spouse to cancer, a father to cancer, and having had a tumor removed last year. The Congress Street side of City Hall is oppressive and hostile to...

we have a park over a highway, the RKG. why anyone would want to replicate that is beyond me.

Seriously, does any other major American city have as weak and feeble a development community and construction environment as Boston?

Unfortunately for Miami, a lot of those tall buildings are vacant.

Re: Columbus Center 13 years and all we have is a chain link fence surrounding an open pit over a highway. What the heck is wrong with the building process in this town? (rheotrical question, we all know the answers)

Re: Filene's So it seems like no lender will touch a project unless the developer has permits in hand. Fine. Why can't the city issue a contingent permit? One that says, essentially, "you are permitted to build [x] on site [y] and are also permitted to clear site [y] of all buildings...

Re: Filene's I'm not familiar with the development business, so pardon my ignorance. I assume Vornado must have had to apply for permits before demolishing Filene's. Shouldn't part of the overall permitting process entail assurances from the developer that he has financing locked down before...

I give it a thumbs up