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No, it can't. Tax revenue is the lifeblood of a city. Waiting another decade or more based on your personal whims means kissing off tens of millions of dollars that could be going to schools, affordable housing, police, etc - you know, the things that make a city livable. Given the...

I'm still trying to think of a large building that the school needs or intends to build. Now that the computer/data science center is a go, what's next? Law school got renovated so no new building there. They need another dorm but that's going in the student village on west campus. They...

Not sure if its your intention, but yours is boilerplate NIMBYspeak for "lets delay this thing until the end of time so nothing gets built".

Good. That parcel could use some sprucing up. Not sure what the CVS building was originally built for (a car showroom?) but that ugly parking garage and the converted gas station can go. Not sure what other academic buildings the school is looking to build at this point but a great opportunity...

Far more striking than I was expecting. Can't say the dude is cutting corners with this proposal. (okay, now on cue lets have stellar tell us how Don is one step from being broke and homeless in 5....4....3....2...) ;)

Question: Where does the green line end in the Seaport under these proposals? I'm reading as far as the old Manulife building stop under D street but what happens after that? Also, are we building an....F line...route that goes from Dudley through Boylston via a street car on Washington and...

Why does he need a $25M tax break from a cash strapped state to build a luxury tower? I'm a little confused on that point. Its not like he's building affordable housing.

I don't know how you can enforce that a neighborhood stay pure to one ethnicity. I sympathize with the people being pushed out, and also think that you could build low income housing and have people who already live in the neighborhood go to the top of the line but if market rate housing is...

Its like a list of every ugly building that's ever been built!

Why would it be? Problem #1 was the zoning, which just got cleared up. Now it goes to court where HT residents and CLF extortion outfit will either win or lose. If they lose they're screwed. As has been explained often, stalling tactics don't work here because the garage is a profitable...

Pure speculation on my part, but 1) the tribe seems to be horribly inept at managing their own finances, much less a casino, that they wouldn't even be in consideration if they weren't in fact the only federally recognized tribe in region 3. The state all things being equal would open the...

IMHO I think this is a convenient excuse not to issue a 3rd license in an oversaturated market. The Mashpee tribe has a better chance of seeing God than winning this court case as the SCOTUS ruling is very clear - no reservation shopping is allowed in their situation. The law would have to...

If a politician's relative rides a horse, they get money from this fund. Duh. ;)

I "get it" I'm just saying I understand why people don't consider the Hurley and Govt Center to be related at first glance, despite the shared ugliness of both buildings.

Right but city hall = Boston and Hurley = state offices which is why they seem distinct to me as well. Aside from the butt ugly architecture I wouldn't have figured they go together.

I think he's answered the naysayers though who kept asking him to do something. Until the area was rezoned it was kind of difficult to go down that road. Now that the rezoning is done he's kicking off the first step so good for him. Harbor Towers people should be laughed out of court or forced...

If I can help it. ;)

I feel 1700 units was a negotiating ploy given the Massport issue. They probably could and should have squeezed in a couple hundred more units but I can deal with what we got. Its also proof of just how easy it is to buy the opposition off. Forget about tens of millions of dollars of linkage...

Kinda makes me wonder how 1) nobody missed the guy when he was off drinking during work hours, and 2) nobody noticed the whiskey on his breath after he put away 4 drinks in two hours then went back to work. Unless that sort of thing is par for the course at MBTA headquarters....

did some digging and this is what I came up with: http://www.westcoastbk.com/blog/2011/07/can-a-state-county-or-city-government-file-for-bankruptcy/ "Chapter 9 provides that municipalities may reorganize their debts. The Bankruptcy Code defines a municipality as a “political subdivision or...