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If nothing else, the steps will always serve as an exquisite vantage-point to admire 387 Washington St (aka DSW building), which was just designated as a Boston landmark and, in my opinion (warning: hot take incoming!!!) was as deserving of landmarking status as 350 Boylston was not. In...

Behold: a mere . . . 2,725 . . . days* after the state decreed there would be a Downtown planning initiative, the robust (if not exactly rapid) community process lumbers on, with a public meeting on January 15...

If you want to make lazy, vague, over-the-top assertions and gross generalizations about the neighborhood, there's plenty of space on the Globe comments forum. Otherwise, make some practical, thoughtful suggestions that demonstrate you've been studying and researching the "situation", however...

Although I find your fixation on "respectfulness" to be bizarre--an urban landscape that only regurgitates "respectful" iterations of prior architectural styles strikes me as deathly dreary and dull (and also a bit fascist/totalitarian)--I will grant that the facade preservation being done for...

As promised [threatened] on this thread some time ago, the family and I did the Polar Express holiday train trip up the Blackstone River Valley this afternoon, on the Providence & Worcester's (yes, Genesee & Wyoming's, if one insists on being particular) charmingly restored vintage passenger...

My father and uncle spent their infancy (1944-1949) on T Wharf before my grandparents moved them to the 'burbs. At the time, it was a real proto-Fort Point (before Fort Point got effaced by the post-2010 Seaport gentrification, of course)--a truly bohemian artists' colony. Perhaps Boston's...

15 Court Square now proposed for a residential conversion. Bizarrely asymmetrical window pattern on the north facade--I'm guessing that was done during Boston's Great Stagnation era ca. 1929-1965 when owners could get away with all kinds of bizarre cheapo alterations. Presumably it will be...

Understandably, since no one under 60 lived through the 1990-1995 office market crash as an active participant ("survivor"?), there's little discussion/awareness of it. But, since the City's Assessing page displays all office tower assessed values back to FY85, it's very easy to chart/graph this...

What do people think about the overall feasibility of the large surface lot immediately adjacent to the Citizens tower? It certainly checks the box for proximity. (Also, we already know there's a "motivated seller"--note the very large "6 Land Parcels" For Sale billboard.)

I myself have occasionally mused on what kind of profitable niche bldup could possibly occupy--who is in need of its, uh, "services"?

I have been there many many times. In terms of its "character"--pick your poison. You know what Newport's "character" was for many years after Nixon relocated the North Atlantic Fleet from there in 1973? Stagnation. Decay. Despair. Desolation. Emptiness. As the NYT reported: Rhode Island will...

Judge's ruling issued. TL;DR: "I'm not going to grant the Orpheum's request, though their claim of a traditional easement is very strong. Go home and settle this out of court as you should've done to begin with, thanks!" "Both parties in this case have a lot at stake. However, the evidence...

Great catch--of course the Globe would be sloppy and careless on such an otherwise key detail... obviously, ignore my prior statement! (Well, not the unemployment bit...)

Did you declare Opposite Day, and not notify the rest of us? ;) https://www.npr.org/2024/01/05/1222714145/jobs-report-december-labor-wages Also, it's worth reiterating what the Hasbro CEO said--that their HQ is in very degraded condition: Within the last year, Hasbro has consolidated its...

As garish and tacky as that use/tenant may be, given the context, without Chipotle and its lucrative lease, HBI is severely if not fatally crippled. Like their work on the Uphams Corner comfort station? Thank Chipotle. How about what they did restoring the Alvah Kittredge home? Again, courtesy...

Every single peer city to Boston in this country is experiencing identical/interchangeable issues and has been for some time. Why don't you go ask all of those big city mayors--NYC, Philly, Baltimore, DC, Miami, Atlanta, SF, Portland, LA, etc. ad nauseum--why they "accept" the kind of...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/09/20/lifestyle/what-its-like-stay-new-citizenm-hotel-over-mass-pike/ To quote The Lizard King, "The cars hiss by my window/Like the waves down on the beach..." (Also, as sublime as that perspective of the Pike is, that shot also vividly captures just how...

Make that typically incoherent rant into an practical insight... take your time, we'll wait!

Ditto that; I just went to the site and there's been no changes and everything's still available as it was prior; all that's been done is they appended that modest disclaimer banner to the very top stating, "as of July 1, we are no longer the BPDA" (words to that effect)

Some North End entities she won't be appointing to the IAG once this thing gets formally proposed: 1.) him 2.) him 3.) him 4.) her