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Yes, quite, I see now the error of my ways. You’re right. I’ll tell them how wrong they were the next time I’m in their office.

That’s a pretty cloudy take, especially since it wasn’t your money. BP wanted to invest in a core, very public, highly visible property: why do you call it a “colossal waste”? You want they should just let it crumble apart, instead of investing their own money into a signature tower in Boston...

Just looked at this thread for the first time in ages, and it makes me grumpy. I had some $25 pre-Covid on a first-gen card that expired during pandemic. I walked out to Packard’s Corner in May of 2022 for an early meeting. After, it was sunny and hot, so I tried to get on the B Line but the...

Given the disastrous public meeting about constructing an amphitheater/ramp proposal last year, especially on removing trees (shade!) by Blue Bottle, I wondered if this was BP’s path through. IIRC, the garden/lawn required public comment (it was mitigation/community benefits under the amended...

I’ve always felt that Disney has excelled at being unapologetic about creating a fantasy experience geared to making memories—one that includes exceptional attention to detail in its design (however over the top it may be for “realists”). They found their niche and continue to refine/improve it...

No matter how much love I have for “Fringe” on Fox a while back, everything about the exterior establishing shows and most exterior locations made me giggle, especially when they moved production from NYC to Canada in Season II. Shots of driving from Cambridge/Harvard to Marlborough Street in...

I agree on rebuilding. Lipstick on the pig won’t work. Heck, I remember 20 years ago (during the explosion of the personal laptop era), it wasn’t well-configured to serving the students and that has to have only gotten worse as NEU’s grown enrollment.

Not sure that makes sense, since Roger H. Brown bought Boston Conservatory’s buildings on The Fenway in 2016. They’re now just a series of department under the Berklee School brand. In public meetings, the Berklee people actually entertained the idea of sponsoring renaming Hynes when the ICA...

The Harvard Club is the owner of the site, so I doubt they’re NIMBYing their own development. It’s abutters, especially rowdy at the last two meetings. By the way, the BPDA public meetings are filmed and online, as is the project filing...

The NIMBY’s who have “garden level” condos on Comm Avenue bullied them into less height, cause “teh views and sun lite”

They’ve started to jump down the crane (hence its strange position in that pic). Expected to be complete Sunday. This site is just barreling along.

Mods, can you split the housing convo off to that thread? This is tedious and offers no new info on the development of a site zoned for retail.

Word around the neighborhood in the summer of 2020 was that there was a ton of abatement, elevators were shot, escalators were shot, electric service was shot. Price seems a tad high, but it’s essentially a gut rehab so maybe not.

Building shadows are *so much* different and twelve times more harmful than the naturally-occurring tree shade that protects pedestrians from the sun. Everyone knows this! /sarcasm

I don’t know. As much as I mourn the loss of the cornice, parapet, greenhouse, and street-clock, someone obviously took a lot of thought on proportionality of the precedent arches when the orangery was replaced with the set-back bays for the building extension on Fairfield. If one didn’t know it...

Edit to add: The Galvin flower shop circa 1910s. There are some other images out there.

I find it interesting that Tavistock is actively marketing the former C&B retail space, despite the fact that this was approved by the BPDA some time ago. Joe Lewis is worth some $4.3B, but he’s delaying this drop-in-a-bucket project that would hugely expand his retail/restaurant revenue stream...

BRA site lists it as on hold.

This has been making me nuts for days. I recall reading about the painted west facade of many cathedrals. I can’t find the actual article, but the Wiki for Amiens talks briefly about the annual festival that they host with some proprietarytech to make it appear what they it actually looked it...

“Hurt” or “impact”? I live, work, and play inside 128, and I’m okay with charging anyone who feels it’s their God Given Right to pal round my neighborhood. Tolling the suburbanites who are so mad they got a ticket for parking in a Resident Only spot (after 8:00 PM, weekdays), when they were up...