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    MBTA Commuter Rail (Operations, Keolis, & Short Term)

    Floody McFloodface Station (spoken by someone with much affection for Lynn via my youthful apprenticeship at the Lynn Daily Item but who is increasingly apprehensive of our guaranteed-to-be-inundated future)
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    MBTA Commuter Rail (Operations, Keolis, & Short Term)

    https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/03/24/metro/battery-powered-improved-service-could-be-coming-to-ts-commuter-rail-in-2027/ TL;DR: --exasperatingly, the MBTA has been foot-dragging for years in terms of living up to its previously announced timelines of when it would electrify its CR fleet...
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    MBTA Buses & Infrastructure

    Until the day comes that an algorithm can be embedded in the AB software that allows this staggeringly informative documentary on the Silver Line's sociopolitical origins to be posted at periodic, sensible junctures, I will continue to happily post it manually. Watch it and be educated...
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    Councilor Wu's Proposal To Abolish The BPDA (65-pp. report)

    FWIW, if the 2025 mayoral race kicks-off in earnest around Memorial Day weekend, 2025, then... she has just 14 months to gain any kind of momentum/watershed victories with this interminable slog that is reforming the BPDA. So far, she has... [checks notes] zero victories in this domain. For any...
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    Landmarking Brutalism

    Perhaps... except, out of curiosity, I just checked the assessing page for the property--its value plunged 19% this year. Again, I repeat: 19%. Insofar as assessed value is a reasonable proxy for a property's economic health, this property is experiencing considerable (if not catastrophic)...
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    Evolving use of Office and other Space

    What are you talking about? For starters, commercial landlords pay their property taxes to the City of Boston, not the state. I cannot see how the state is involved with Boston's residential conversion program whatsoever, other than providing the zoning classification that allows for it to...
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    Hotel | 7-9 Hamilton Place | Downtown

    They just happen to be side-by-side and simultaneous but you can see from looking at their respective BPDA pages that they're totally unrelated. That said, consider in two years what Hamilton Place should be like: 1.) northern gateway: Suffolk U. Law School--all of the positive activity and...
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    Evolving use of Office and other Space

    If you had bothered to read the 85 Devonshire residential conversion application, you'd see it's on the very first page: "The estimated cost of the conversion is $36 million." Obviously the developer is picking up 100% of that tab. Next time, please review all of the relevant documentation...
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    The New Retail Thread

    You only have to look just a few posts upthread here for a *lively* debate on this very topic!
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    The New Retail Thread

    I'd promised myself that I was done with this debate, but, this is such an unbelievable claim that here I am perpetuating the argument (my apologies to others who may be annoyed). I've never heard of anything like this, so, I have to express my extreme skepticism. Here's a story from 2019...
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    The New Retail Thread

    (bigpicture7: do you want to be the one to inform Nibbles that several other large retailers--DSW, HomeGoods, Marshalls, Old Navy, Primark, just off the top of my head--have had the audacity to remain open for years in DTX, despite Nibbles' feelings about things being "unwell"? If he takes such...
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    The New Retail Thread

    Oh, go on, do tell about these many so-called "problems." And when I say "tell," I mean--please supply links to incidents that were so heinous, they actually warranted local media coverage. Just remember: if, on the extremely unlikely chance, you can supply links to just FIVE* local media...
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    The New Retail Thread

    Lol, that Macy's is surely one of the most wildly profitable Macy's stores within the entire chain; it's always packed whenever I'm cutting through it. The chain is closing more than 100 stores underperforming stores, and of course the DTX one is not on the list. The only way I can foresee the...
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    Downtown/Financial district infill and small developments

    I was only trying to contrast the immense quantities of hype/blather/argumentation spewed in comment sections of media stories about this conversion program, vs. the cold reality which is that, if, when the window closes on this program on May 31--very soon!--and only 5% of all Downtown office...
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    Downtown/Financial district infill and small developments

    "In total, the BPDA has received four applications since October that would create 170 housing units by converting eight high vacancy Class B and C office buildings, according to officials. Candidates range from small local property owners to larger real estate brokers and developers, they...
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    Winthrop Center | 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District

    As "baffling" as you may find it, in terms of realized product, for the Boston market, said trend is very very modest. Three legit food halls have opened in nine years, that I'm aware of: the Fenway one, High Street Place, Boston Public Market. EDIT: thanks to those below who pointed-out...
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    MA Liquor Laws

    Whump! The sound of ... (wait for it) ... 3,400 words devoted to the topic by the Globe, just today. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/01/30/magazine/boston-restaurants-need-liquor-licenses-the-problem-is-getting-one/
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    Quincy Market Update/Renovation | Faneuil Hall Marketplace | Downtown

    Nice clarifications. The only thing I'd add to this is the City's ownership page for Faneuil Hall parcel--check out how the ownership entities are stacked. https://www.cityofboston.gov/assessing/search/?pid=0303670000 With the BPDA being on the bottom line, I interpret that as meaning they...
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    Quincy Market Update/Renovation | Faneuil Hall Marketplace | Downtown

    Given the absolutely brutal headlines of late regarding Ashkenazy's alleged gross mismanagement of Faneuil Hall, I can only assume this is a plus. If the coverage is to be taken at face value, then the only way this incoming operator could be worse is if they napalmed the joint and then left...
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    MBTA Commuter Rail (Operations, Keolis, & Short Term)

    Of course this story, with its various bizarre/surreal/farcical contours, is catnip for a scandal sheet like the Herald. Nevertheless, I'll point out that the raggedy tabloid has performed a vital public service here in pointing out the apparent astonishing lethality of the commuter rail, in...

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