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TheRifleman said:
2014 Boston Development predictions

1. The Building Boom will continue (Under Mayor Walsh)
2. the Innovation District rebrands itself back to the Seaport District
3. More complaints about the Traffic congestion concerning the build-out of the Seaport District
4.Cost of parking in Boston Triples ($$$)
5. Record year for Boston Police giving parking tickets
6. Copley Tower gets ready to start construction for 2015
7. Greenway hosts 2014 New Years Eve event. (Mayor Walsh jumps off Harbor Garage into the Harbor) Instead of the ball dropping.
8. Casino finally gets approved only to get sued by all the surrounding towns which will take another 5-10 years to go through litigation on the taxpayers dime.

9. Finally Menino gets fired from BU after 1 month gets security job for Suffolk Construction.
10. Rifleman changes name to Bazookaman
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1. If by building boom continues, you mean new approvals, I'm not so sure. I feel pretty confident the mayor is going to tell the BRA to drag their feet until he gets comfortable. I hope you are right though.

2. Yes please!

3. Agreed the complaints will continue, although I think expectations will also adjust and car traffic will stagnate at a burdensome, but bearable level.

4. We can only hope.

5. Don't know much about parking tickets. On the extremely rare occasion I drive into the city I just go to a garage or park, you know, legally...

6. I have lost all hope in this. I fully expect a major delay. At least this way I'll be pleasantly surprised if you are right.

7. Don't they do First Night in Copley? Why would you expect that ever to change? Is New York going to move Ryan Seacrest and the ball to the High Line too?

8. Agreed.
 
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First Night is a scattered event. Copley Square is just one of its venues.
 
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fattony said:
6. I have lost all hope in this. I fully expect a major delay. At least this way I'll be pleasantly surprised if you are right.

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Last time I swung by the old place, I at least saw drawings on desks and they were in the DD phase. I'd expect CD's by summer anyways at this point. If they are at least paying for the design to move forward, they are feeling more confident that they'll start building finally. Podium expansion first however I think.
 
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Paul McMorrow's opinion piece on height NIMBYs and Mayor Walsh asking "How tall can you go?": http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/...development/mdcFD67kTofKTRJyW0PdlI/story.html

If written strictly, these new regulations could make the redevelopment of places like Chiofaro’s Harbor Garage impossible. Or, they could end the years-long impasse between Chiofaro and City Hall.

Shen said Walsh wants to see development consistent with a modern downtown — a downtown that attracts new residents and visitors, a downtown that doesn’t shut down at 9 p.m., a downtown that doesn’t reflexively howl at tall new buildings. None of that means Chiofaro is a lock to build Boston’s Burj Dubai. But it means that Walsh’s BRA is looking at height as a development tool, instead of a four-letter word. There’s a world of difference right there. Even if the agency doesn’t have a boss yet.
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Shen said Walsh wants to see development consistent with a modern downtown — a downtown that attracts new residents and visitors, a downtown that doesn’t shut down at 9 p.m.,
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IMHO this is the more important tidbit here than the height thing. Height is cool, but active cities are great.

Right now Walsh stock is rising in my eyes.
 
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meddlepal said:
IMHO this is the more important tidbit here than the height thing. Height is cool, but active cities are great.

Right now Walsh stock is rising in my eyes.
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Agreed, having a more active city is definitely a priority. In my mind, greater height and therefor greater density is a vehicle to get us there.
 
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"We need to protect the Greenway from the Shadows."

Could be one of the most uneducated comments in planning & development history.
 
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^ Right up there with Patriots on the Seaport! [Sorry, Riff, I just wanted a DRINK that's all.]
 
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According to Thomas Grillo at the BBJ, Walsh administration/John Barros is reconsidering the Chiofaro Tower:

"In his first public comments on Donald Chiofaro’s proposed waterfront tower that was sunk by former Mayor Thomas M. Menino, the Walsh administration’s economic development chief said it’s time to reconsider the proposal."
 
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http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/real_estate/2014/04/walsh-to-consider-chiofaro-waterfront-towers.html

JeffDowntown said:
According to Thomas Grillo at the BBJ, Walsh administration/John Barros is reconsidering the Chiofaro Tower:

"In his first public comments on Donald Chiofaro’s proposed waterfront tower that was sunk by former Mayor Thomas M. Menino, the Walsh administration’s economic development chief said it’s time to reconsider the proposal."
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Love it. The city should have the height limit lifted very soon, and there won't be any significant noise against this. The mayor is really the one pushing this too.

I see Don in the IP atrium each morning casually hanging out and being very warm and inviting to anyone who wants to talk to him.
 
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Downtown Waterfront Municipal Harbor Planning
Advisory Committee

June 25, 2014


Atlantic Wharf, Fort Point Room, 290 Congress Street
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Agenda


I. Planning Updates

II. Review of Harbor Garage Site

III. Presentation by the Chiofaro Company – Harbor Garage Site

IV. MHPAC Questions and Comments

V. Public Questions and Comments


The next MHP Advisory Committee Meetings are scheduled for the following Wednesdays from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Atlantic Wharf, 290 Congress Street:
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I'm going to this. Can't wait to see the vision on this STRIP.
 
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The way the cost of parking is in the city. I'm not sure why the developer would even want to build.

But for a better Greenway---Give Chiofaro the Height. The height will make the ground floor connect the Greenway to the Harbor.

Harbor Tower residents are just a bunch of entitled cry-babies. Oh my your going to sacrifice my view. Welcome to the city.
The city of Boston is not the Suburbs. We need to build higher to lower the cost of housing. Bottom line.

Its time to knock that WALL OF CEMENT down that faces the water. This will make a better Greenway for everybody
 
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WELLLLLL????
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Check in this time tomorrow?

I'd like to see Chiofaro just repitch the original tower as a slap in the face to Menino.
 
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To think that at EOD today, we'll be hearing the same regurgitated irrelevant nonsense from the Harbor Tower residents who all claim they don't live there. Can't wait.

But what drives me more insane is the argument to building nothing near nothing.
 
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