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Good grief. What a boring beige, stepped-back, green-glazed punishment of mediocre MEH. Give me a spoon to cut my face off, won't, ya?

I'm with you here. I rented a Back Bay condo in 2017, and my landlord did not raise my rent until 2023 (to try and somewhat align with p/sf rents in the BB), and slightly increased again in 2024, due to their Boston residential taxes, post-Covid. All in, over six years, it was a minuscule 5%...

I hear this frustration quite a bit, but the City of Boston has no control over this site (Parcel 15). It's managed by the Commonwealth, with easements by the MBCR, the Turnpike Commission, the Auditorium Garage Trust, a few energy companies (Veolias, Eversource), and a staked interest by the...

Yas, cosmetic paint and fancy carpet weren't why the obvious subjects for acquiring it didn't seriously bid under the Baker "sell, baby, sell," scheme (Boston Properties, the Berklee School of Music, Samuels & Co, Fish/Weiner—lol, even the Darden Group). It was that buying this albatross would...

Fucking piece of shit, serial-abusing bully, Sam Hassan, will no doubt make money on deliberately letting the site deteriorate for 20+ years. Disgusting.

Aside from Samuels Associates (who, I believe have made no public statement), every other abutter/neighbor pretty much hates the Harvard Club proposal to transform the Newbury Extension west of Mass Ave. Trying to imagine Kairos signing off on a project proposal put forth by Harvard...

There is a door when you enter Hynes from Mass Ave, at the bottom of the first stair (on the right) that is the tunnel under Mass Ave. It has lately had a "no access/construction" sign and padlocked chain on it during the build of parcel 12. There's a whole separate set of stairs and a passage...

Stay tuned. I hear the public process might start as early as October for a facadectomy and 30 some floors of height on this corner.

I don't really know birds at all, so, I appreciate the identification. It was just such an amazing few minutes watching wildlife do wildlifing.

For about three weeks, I've been unable to connect on my phone (across three different network providers or my generic ATT service). But, suddenly, all is well tonight! I'm back. Not sure if that helps mods diagnose other user access issues, but wanted to put it out there.

A few weeks back, I took a pic of what I thought was a bald eagle (but, maybe one of the peregrine falcons that nest on top of Church Park—with an oddly white head? Cause, bald eagles in Boston, whaaaat??). This was in the alley behind Dunks on Mass Ave at the Berklee School. The critter had...

Rumor has it they wildly messed up their financial projections and can't finance planting a daffodil, much less this. Apparently they're offering hundreds of SF of space to other schools of the Fenway to coverage a massive $$ gap.

Agree. Before I realized it was Sam, I thought, "Great!" Then this surfaced. From personal experience, I find him disagreeable to deal with in person. Rude and entitled are the phrases that come to mind.

Just to add, it is clear when touring the current building, the differences between the original northern mid-rise versus the later addition over Boylston are stark. Both, in terms of construction materials as well as means/methods and efficiency in the use of plenum space.

My best recollection is the original building (in your pic) opened in 1941 (replacing a previous building), and was amended/expanded with a stylistically similar addition in 1967 to create the brute force, full-block, kinda Art Deco-ish massing it is today. I have some photos of the transition...

I don't remember that, exactly, but it sounds real. There was a similar shoulder dance going on east of Mass Ave when National was proposing the Midtown redevelopment at the same time FCCS was going to redevelop the plaza to restore a path to the Mother Church through the reflecting pool, add...

8 or 9 years ago, I recall they were quietly talking with some neighbors about redeveloping the low-slung Huntington Ave annex buildings in hopes of securing some partner financing and participation. Best recollection is, it was better/more practice space for BSO artists using the basements and...

Um, I have a checkered history here of sometimes being an inflammatory, drunk, arse, but could we all take a beat? Mods, maybe would you might consider locking this for a few days. I avoid the front page of national newspapers, and don't watch TV news or talk shows any more. This is one of...

It's been at least 15 years since I last read the church's PDA.80 as approved by the then-BRA, but since FCCS owns the land under the Midtown, might there be some height/massing/shadow restrictions in what could be built to replace the Midtown (with respect to the plaza and reflecting pool)? You...

The church's vendor spent the last two weeks landscaping/pruning trees, installing new twinkly lights, and re-lamping the plaza's accent lights. Looks good with the Lyra as a background element.