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dshoost88 said:
I'm a huge proponent of putting an IMAX theater wherever possible in this city; the Garden might be a good place to start
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AMC Loews Boston Common 19 is fine, Why would we need another one? The NE Aquarium also has one (but shows specialized themes).

I agree with most of the comments like avoiding a roller coaster or Cheesecake Factory, but I think an ESPN Zone would be great at the Garden, especially in the base of whatever building fills in the parking lot. Boston, the Garden Area, and sports go hand-in-hand.
 
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the city needs more small and or indepedent theatres with generous lease terms (keep dreaming!?)...megaplex/3d/imax is going to already be done to death in the next few years with reissues of old films...and new movie box office takes are declining for a reason

last thing we need is another place to watch the inevitable Driving Ms. Daisy 3-D

for the love of god someone save us from this movie morass
 
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If I could cut and paste one building from NYC into Boston it would be the Time Warner building into North Station (maybe I'd scale it down too).

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There's one building...I cant remember the street but its on like 6th or 7th avenue, a mile up from MSG...it's residential and it looks like a slender knifeblade...really small footprint but you can see it a mile away on the avenue because of it's unique shape
 
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datadyne007 said:
AMC Loews Boston Common 19 is fine, Why would we need another one? The NE Aquarium also has one (but shows specialized themes).
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The AMC Boston Common 19 does not have a real IMAX. It features an IMAX projector and plays films shot in the IMAX format, but the screen and experience are what people in the movie industry refer to as "Lie-MAX". They converted their largest auditorium into an "IMAX" auditorium so they could charge a higher ticket premium, but AMC is duping filmgoers out of a true IMAX experience. Anyone who has been to the Jordan's Furniture IMAX in Reading can back me up on this.

As for the New England Aquarium--yes, they do have a real IMAX screen, but like you pointed out they only play museum of science type films (Under the Sea 3D, SEA-REX 3D, Space Station 3D... except for the very rare times they screen a major motion picture like The Dark Knight or Avatar some evenings 3 months after they'd been playing in other IMAX theaters.

Sorry to rant, I'm just an extremely passionate cinephile. (You should know, datadyne007, you've seen my facebook)
 
Re: Nashua Street Residences (North Station)

Shepard said:
Did you walk down Portland, Friend and Canal streets off of Causeway? Those are solid streets with a good mix of residences, boutique hotels, and entertainment options. These streets of the Bullfinch Triangle were spared the West End wrecking ball and make it very obvious what the entire West End could have been today.
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Amen.

Shepard said:
Causeway itself is a disgrace. The Tip O'Neil building [...] hulks menacingly like a faceless bureaucratic overlord.
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That too.

Shepard said:
The other half of that side is the faceless Garden itself, a hulking wall with what's currently a no-man's-land setback.
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And that.
 
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Causeway St alone is atrocious, not so much the buildings and lack thereof, but just the actual street. At some points it is 5 lanes wide! The same goes for Lomansey, Staniford, and Merrimac. These are are trashy urban renewal streets, and do NOT belong in a Boston. All of them appear to be in rather crappy shape, perhaps due for an overhaul, and all of them should be scaled down.
 
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PS: Those bollards at Tip O'Neil? HORRENDOUS! Maybe if they scaled down the street and made the sidewalks wider it wouldn't be nearly as bad, but as it stands, it's atrocious.
 
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Bubbybu said:
There's one building...I cant remember the street but its on like 6th or 7th avenue, a mile up from MSG...it's residential and it looks like a slender knifeblade...really small footprint but you can see it a mile away on the avenue because of it's unique shape
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785 8th Ave

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Is the Government Center garage still slated for eventual demolition? I remember reading something in the Globe about it. Sounded a long way off and there weren't any renderings of the mixed use development they alluded to take its place.
 
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BostonUrbEx said:
Causeway St alone is atrocious, not so much the buildings and lack thereof, but just the actual street. At some points it is 5 lanes wide! The same goes for Lomansey, Staniford, and Merrimac. These are are trashy urban renewal streets, and do NOT belong in a Boston. All of them appear to be in rather crappy shape, perhaps due for an overhaul, and all of them should be scaled down.
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Urb -- Causeway St. is as it is -- not because of urban renewal -- but because it is a major urban street carrying large amounts of truck traffic and because it once hosted the elevated Green Line and the entrance to the Boston Garden -- no one has widened it in many many decades [except for the immediate block of the Greenway and the corner where the Tip is located]

In the era of the Garden and the Green Line -- Causeway was the quintessential "'Gritty Urbania" with crowds of Bruuuun Fans spilling out of da Gahhhhhdn to quaff a few in the fabulous Penalty Box Lounge
 
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Tbh, I don't even like that building from the front. The only view I like of it is looking up in that rendering.

The front is as if the architects looked down at their Olfa blade and said "let's make this a building!" complete with the circle where the blade sits in the knife at the top!

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