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June 1994 - The T made the Harcourt Condominium pay $6,300 for an air rights easement which extended very slightly (Bay Windows) over the SW Corridor park. Book 19185 Page 125 of the Suffolk County of Deeds. I know the appraisal done by the company I then worked for had to be at least in the...

They could claim adverse possession, but how many tens of thousands of dollars is a condo board or building owner going to spend proving possession when they can pay a few thousand off to the T or BRA to make them go away?

For the sake of the homeowner, do not post these. The BRA has been known to spend thousands, many thousands, to extract air rights payments or subsurface payments from owners of buildings that have been in place for decades because they hang over or go under a sidewalk. They used to spend $10...

Re: Somerville Soccer Stadium Hey, I've got this friend I would like to set you up with. She is not as good looking, fun, or smart as I am, but she's got some good qualities. I know she can be a little dirty and unkempt, she is kind of corrupt, but she can be nice at times. She may ask for...

You could have written "recent college grads, young professionals, and empty nesters" about my neighborhood in 1978.

Those bastard foreigners; my parents buying a three decker and living in it.

Ashmont (already happening). I hate this comment. As someone who lived on Ashmont Street from 1974 until 1991 (and my mother still lives there), it was always a nice area, with fraying around the station. Just because someone from Oberlin is now living in the area doesn't mean it is...

I'm middle aged. I've seen these proposals for Revere Beach since I was a teenager. Hate to be a pessimist, but it is Revere. Call me when 1/8th of this gets built.

Have you ever tried walking through the Franklin Park Zoo with a 5 year old while pushing a squirming 2 year old in a stroller for 2 hours and then have to work your way out onto Blue Hill Avenue and then try to cross the starting line of the Roxbury 500? Snack bar inside the zoo will...

The old story is that Fred Lynn left the Red Sox for the Angels because his wife hated trying to negotiate the Alewife / Fresh Pond Rotaries. All this development in Alewife without proper traffic controls and realignment of the streets north of Concord Avenue might have killed her today. I...

Let's just building a nice single family house so as not to overwhelm peaceful Cleveland Circle. Nimbyism from three towns. This developer has the patience of saint...

If you saw what this building has to look at across the street, it makes this place look like The Chevron. That being said, we are entering another phase of build'em fast and cheap (or we may be knee deep in it) in Boston. This building is Huskie storage and nothing else.

My only rebuttal on the lack of ground floor uses is that Chelsea has a great neighborhood corridor along Broadway and on some peripheral streets. These new developments are in secondary areas of the town and perhaps long term, these first floor parking uses will get transformed into retail...

Dagger stares? If I get a spare hour this summer I am going to take my 250lb, 45 year old, out of shape rear end of to C-town and sunbathe on the public amenity I paid for which enabled this development to be built.

Re: Globe Site I'm not arguing against density, just who wants any more 150/200 foot towers at Alewife? Those towers are Cabrini Green in a sea of low to mid-rise. As far as Morrissey goes, you cannot bring Morrissey Boulevard down to less than 6 lanes. It is a major traffic artery for the...

Re: Globe Site Home Depot, Christmas Tree Shop, Too much parking, a massive self storage building for a start. Dot already has that at South Bay. No need for South Bay II. That is a massive site next to the X-Way and now commuter rail. Like the Globe site, South Bay and Assembly were...

Re: Globe Site Since you live in North Cambridge, would you be agreeable to 3 more of those housing project towers across from Alewife in your neighborhood? Go ahead and start striving for that and see what happens. Everyone of these posts, please remember that the area to the west of the...

Re: Globe Site How about a something over four stories on Mass. Ave. in Lexington? Why would the people of Columbia / Savin Hill and the established urban streetscape have to suddenly deal with a 1,000 foot building lording over them? Are you the ghost of Ed Logue?

Re: Globe Site ? There are sidewalks on both sides of the street. There is plenty of room for sidewalks on both sides of the road, inbound and outbound going back towards the existing buildings. Why does the commute of thousands of people in Dorchester, Quincy, Mattapan, Milton, Hingham...

Herb paid well under the going rate for this parcel based upon what multi-family land is selling for in the inner Boston market. Once the Globe goes away and Shaw's finally spins down the drain, Savin Hill Cove to the JFK bus turnaround will be the wonderful X-Way Vu estates built by...