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I’m all for parking structures to be hidden, but I’m probably the only person in here who actually wants a place to park my car downtown, because it’s just way more convenient.

Oh please. We’d all love to live there.

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People said the same thing about my generation, and the one before me. So I think we’ll be okay.

I’m pretty sure the building this replaced was itself cheap and mediocre quality, right? Not everything old is high quality, they had budgets back then too.

Probably true.

I’m usually anti NIMBY, but I get the concern of smelly diapers piling up in a dumpster behind a daycare near me.

With Mariel right there, there’s plenty of activity. The Vermillion Club is getting popular, and Chemist was packed. The new bar at the intercontinental was doing alright too.

I get the sentiment though. There’s more than just a disinterest in nice places, there’s an active hostility to them.

I think it looks good and fits in nicely with the other styles of buildings. I don’t buy into the idea that Boston has to be dinky just because.

I like the building. I think it looks good and subtly gothic-deco. It’s not going to turn the world upside down, but it’s a net positive I think.

How come the reaction to Seaport is so much more negative vs. Assembly?

It helps that they’re mixed in with other types of architecture and style I think. It brings a modernism to the skyline that was needed.

I think there’s a lot of truth to that. For the record, I’m exclusively a Seiko collector (low to high end). I see the money in Boston not going to things that make life more pleasant and livable. This whole thing started from discussion about the Winthrop square fountain. Many people here...

That’s exactly what I mean. Nice things are snobbish to people here, so we don’t have them.

This forum is an outlier where we celebrate new improvements to our city. The majority of people in the city prefer things as they are. New things threaten them. Nice things are “pretentious” and “elitist”. Upkeep and maintenance are “wasted money”. A new modern cocktail bar or nightclub is a...

People in Boston have a low desire for nice things. Crap is “character” to them.

Since they’re the mother culture of that part of the world I give them credit. But the upwards turned ends came from a desire to let in more natural light, given the types of construction and engineering they had. If you look at reconstructions of older buildings from the Shang Dynasty and even...

The Chinese had the answer all along!

Lord and Taylor was nice, but not THAT nice. Better than JCPenney, but not as nice as Nordstrom’s, let alone Saks or Neiman’s. The trend is a sad one I think. I’m not opposed to athletic wear or accessories, but it’s spilling over into everything, and it’s pushing out elegant nice things across...