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    Fenway Corners (Red Sox) | 1 Jersey Street | Fenway

    You are missing my point. To say that any upwardly mobile politician in this town is not heavily influenced by outside influences is disingenuous. What I am saying is that political outsiders, no matter where they are, or where they come from, will frequently enact policy or drive development in...
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    Fenway Corners (Red Sox) | 1 Jersey Street | Fenway

    What I mean by that is that natives are more likely to work with neighborhoods and have a better understanding of local culture to promote and preserve locally owned businesses. They usually know the families, at least tacitly. When political outsiders enter a community as a stepping stone up...
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    Fenway Corners (Red Sox) | 1 Jersey Street | Fenway

    Unfortunately, our antiquated liquor license laws combined with non-native-driven political shenanigans create an extremely bleak outlook for any local owner-run establishments, leaving only chains and units of larger entertainment groups. At the end of the day though, we only have ourselves to...
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    Unbuilt Highways in Massachusetts

    What a find indeed. I too grew up in that area and my family had quite a bit of real estate interests along route 2 in Athol / Orange at the time so it was a frequent topic of discussion. I recall this battle from the 80's, and there was a strong environmental push back with the state forests in...
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    Harbor Garage Redevelopment Pontificating | Waterfront

    I know it was originally, but I know three separate couples who live there, and although they are all very different from one another and do not know each other (or at least I don't think they do) they are the biggest 1%er A-holes you will ever encounter.
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    Framingham Developments

    If you are not an investor in national development, I'm not sure what your beef is, or what you would have preferred there. 55+ was the benchmark from the 80s and 90s. Many younger boomers and certainly Gen Xer's had children in their early 40s and therefore aren't ready to downsize until...
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    Framingham Developments

    What's wrong with 62+ for housing? There is a tremendous amount of demand for retirement housing in metrowest. There is also a lack of hotel rooms in the immediate area.
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    MIT East Campus - Kendall Square Gateway | Cambridge

    I honestly cannot look at photos of this building and not feel like I have vertigo or something similar. It's the first time I have ever experienced it, but it happens every time I see these posts. It will be interesting to see it in person to see if the effect is the same.
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    State Street HQ | One Congress | Bulfinch Crossing | West End

    I don't like speaking for the big O, but a couple of points from my perspective - 1. Let's be clear, Connecticut screwed themselves. 2. Yes, the city does have a new style NIMBY's which differ from those of the past. In the past it was driven much more by self interests and simple resistance...
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    Oxford Office Bldg. | 125 Lincoln St | Leather District

    According to the LOI, it has to go to before the Zoning Board of Appeals. Not sure for what.
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    Oxford Office Bldg. | 125 Lincoln St | Leather District

    They might as well refresh an existing one they worked on, as they know there is no way this thing will be approved, as currently proportioned. Why waste money? They will redesign once they figure out how much over 100' the neighborhood will give them. Curbed article today...
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    New England Revolution Stadium | 173 Alford Street | Boston-Everett

    Re: Site in Hub top choice for a soccer stadium This thread is 13 years old next week. Where's your sense of nostalgia? Some things are meant to be unchanged.
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    Dock Square Parking Garage | 20 Clinton Street | Downtown

    Re: Dock Square Parking Garage | 20 Clinton Street | The ROI on burying a garage is simply not there unless you can go substantially vertical. And you know full well how that plays in this town.
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    Four Seasons Tower @ CSC | 1 Dalton Street | Back Bay

    You have answered your own question. The simple fact that is the last air right parcel in copley makes it more valuable, value that will rise over time. As one of the largest REITs in the country, they can, and should for their investors, wait until they need the capital, so long as that air...
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    The Ipswich | 2 Charlesgate West | Fenway

    Who knows what condition the building is in, but it may well just be a rehab / addition with no additional height.
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    West Cambridge / Alewife Area Infill & Small Developments

    Yeah, but better than the ugly ass stock brown that developers seem to adore.
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    Congestion toll in Boston?

    That view is economic fallacy. It fails to take into account local taxes, federal funding allocated directly to local or county governments, excise taxes and all the other hidden shit through "fees" extorted out of the populous.
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    Congestion toll in Boston?

    We have the 12th largest budget in the US. There is no revenue problem, there is a spending problem.
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    Allston Yards (Stop and Shop) | 60 Everett St | Allston

    Re: Bose, if so, it's Framingham's own damn fault. Dr Bose went to his grave hurt and pissed off at Framingham for not allowing him to build his amphitheatre on the mountain. I think it happened around 2000, maybe a bit later, but they then scrapped another building that had been permitted and...
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    State Street HQ | One Congress | Bulfinch Crossing | West End

    Is this correct? "The $600 million cooling towers were built starting 10 years ago in response to environmental concerns at the Brayton Point power plant." No wonder electricity costs so much.

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