Ginjitsuman
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You obviously haven't been to Aqua World fish shop.....pick up the latest stag flick with your neon tetra. Chinatown is a funny place filled with funny people.
You obviously haven't been to Aqua World fish shop.....pick up the latest stag flick with your neon tetra. Chinatown is a funny place filled with funny people.
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No, no, no briv. Didn't you read the piece on Kairos Shen in the Globe? This is bow-your-head-politely "contextual" architecture that communists are so fond of. A large monument, surrounded by blocks of stubby concrete gray. Context. We don't need architecture, just backdrop. We don't need a painting on the wall, we need wallpaper.
No, no, no briv. Didn't you read the piece on Kairos Shen in the Globe? This is bow-your-head-politely "contextual" architecture that communists are so fond of. A large monument, surrounded by blocks of stubby concrete gray. Context. We don't need architecture, just backdrop. We don't need a painting on the wall, we need wallpaper.
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If this tower is built, it will be blocking potential views of the still-missing apartment tower on lower Wash. St. (now an empty lot).
I've often found that beautiful architectural renderings end up as mediocre buildings and sketchy renderings end up with the most interesting facades....wonder if this will be true in this case?
If this tower is built, it will be blocking potential views of the still-missing apartment tower on lower Wash. St. (now an empty lot).
I've often found that beautiful architectural renderings end up as mediocre buildings and sketchy renderings end up with the most interesting facades....wonder if this will be true in this case?
kz1000ps
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Is there? Maybe for class B and C space, but the class A stuff ends at Summer Street. Like was said earlier, the only groups I can see moving here are institutions. And for what it's worth, the building certainly looks institutional; it'd be a perfect fit buried deep somewhere in Longwood.
Is there? Maybe for class B and C space, but the class A stuff ends at Summer Street. Like was said earlier, the only groups I can see moving here are institutions. And for what it's worth, the building certainly looks institutional; it'd be a perfect fit buried deep somewhere in Longwood.
Re: Jacob Wirth's
Hold your hand over the top 18 floors....hey,look, is that the Apple Store on Boylston, what a groundbreaking facade...remove hand, oh wait, its not...lets bitch about the part that doesn't interact with the pedestrian.
Hold your hand over the top 18 floors....hey,look, is that the Apple Store on Boylston, what a groundbreaking facade...remove hand, oh wait, its not...lets bitch about the part that doesn't interact with the pedestrian.
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So...we should bitch about the part that does interact with the pedestrian?
Ok.
hey,look, is that the Apple Store on Boylston, what a rip-off! Wish they could come up with something new.
Oh, well, I guess Apple is used to that.
So...we should bitch about the part that does interact with the pedestrian?
Ok.
hey,look, is that the Apple Store on Boylston, what a rip-off! Wish they could come up with something new.
Oh, well, I guess Apple is used to that.
Re: Jacob Wirth's
The city is getting overrun by winter gardens.
The lower Stuart Street side could definitely see improvement; it doesn't look to work well either with pedestrians or the adjacent buildings, particularly the Wirth.
The city is getting overrun by winter gardens.
The lower Stuart Street side could definitely see improvement; it doesn't look to work well either with pedestrians or the adjacent buildings, particularly the Wirth.
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^^
How many people actually go to winter gardens? Are there so many people visiting these gardens that they're in demand or something? I really don't get it.
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How many people actually go to winter gardens? Are there so many people visiting these gardens that they're in demand or something? I really don't get it.
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A year ago no one knew what the hell a winter garden was. Today you can't read an article on a development that doesn't mention one. A winter garden is just a rebranding of the atrium which itself was just a rebranding of the lobby. Gotta love marketers.
A year ago no one knew what the hell a winter garden was. Today you can't read an article on a development that doesn't mention one. A winter garden is just a rebranding of the atrium which itself was just a rebranding of the lobby. Gotta love marketers.
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I am assuming that most of you who don't like winter gardens do not live in Boston in the winter.
The winter garden at the Pru (which was developed 10 years ago) is a nice urban oasis in the wintertime. It provides a sunny place to sit among greenery in a generally bleak urban time of the year. Those of us who actually live with winter IN Boston like the winter garden concept.
I am assuming that most of you who don't like winter gardens do not live in Boston in the winter.
The winter garden at the Pru (which was developed 10 years ago) is a nice urban oasis in the wintertime. It provides a sunny place to sit among greenery in a generally bleak urban time of the year. Those of us who actually live with winter IN Boston like the winter garden concept.
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I live in Boston year round, and I for one hate going to the mall any month of the year. I'd rather have the unpredictability of a Boston street in January than the hermetic nowhere-ness of an Anysuburb, USA mall, but that's just me. If I wanted to sit under a ficus during the winter I'd be living in Tampa.
I live in Boston year round, and I for one hate going to the mall any month of the year. I'd rather have the unpredictability of a Boston street in January than the hermetic nowhere-ness of an Anysuburb, USA mall, but that's just me. If I wanted to sit under a ficus during the winter I'd be living in Tampa.
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I am not too optimistic that this development will ever get built with this developer. The developer, Eamon O'Marah, tried to build a 40 story building in Providence in 2005. Construction was never started and the institutional investor supposedly lost several million dollars. I can't see institutional money backing this developer in this "strip joint" location. Notice from the article that financing has not been obtained. Hate to be so negative but a questionable developer trying to build a skyscraper in a questionable location does not add up...
I am not too optimistic that this development will ever get built with this developer. The developer, Eamon O'Marah, tried to build a 40 story building in Providence in 2005. Construction was never started and the institutional investor supposedly lost several million dollars. I can't see institutional money backing this developer in this "strip joint" location. Notice from the article that financing has not been obtained. Hate to be so negative but a questionable developer trying to build a skyscraper in a questionable location does not add up...
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Keeping an eye on him
Real Estate Roundup
By Michelle Hillman
Friday, August 8, 2008
The one thing you didn?t read about Eamon O?Marah of Eastat Realty Capital LLC last week was where he?s been for the past year or two.
O?Marah made headlines after he filed a notice with the Boston Redevelopment Authority to redevelop the parking lot next to the Theater District mainstay Jacob Wirth Co. restaurant into a 24-story office tower. Before returning to Boston, O?Marah was a partner in a residential and hotel project in downtown Providence, R.I. The project, which originally included plans for a W Hotel and as many as 75 condos, has since been taken over by O?Connor Capital Partners of New York and is being redesigned from the original configuration. O?Marah previously led a development company called BlueChip Properties LLC.
O?Marah declined to discuss his previous real estate deals but said he ?gave back shares? in the Rhode Island project known as One Ten Westminster. O?Marah is also a partner in the redevelopment of the Ames Building in Boston with Normandy Real Estate Partners.
O?Marah is the second developer in recent years to put forward a proposal for the Theater District site. The previous developer, Weston Associates, planned to buy the property and build a 108-room hotel, 181 residential units and 219 parking spaces, but never closed on the purchase.
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Keeping an eye on him
Real Estate Roundup
By Michelle Hillman
Friday, August 8, 2008
The one thing you didn?t read about Eamon O?Marah of Eastat Realty Capital LLC last week was where he?s been for the past year or two.
O?Marah made headlines after he filed a notice with the Boston Redevelopment Authority to redevelop the parking lot next to the Theater District mainstay Jacob Wirth Co. restaurant into a 24-story office tower. Before returning to Boston, O?Marah was a partner in a residential and hotel project in downtown Providence, R.I. The project, which originally included plans for a W Hotel and as many as 75 condos, has since been taken over by O?Connor Capital Partners of New York and is being redesigned from the original configuration. O?Marah previously led a development company called BlueChip Properties LLC.
O?Marah declined to discuss his previous real estate deals but said he ?gave back shares? in the Rhode Island project known as One Ten Westminster. O?Marah is also a partner in the redevelopment of the Ames Building in Boston with Normandy Real Estate Partners.
O?Marah is the second developer in recent years to put forward a proposal for the Theater District site. The previous developer, Weston Associates, planned to buy the property and build a 108-room hotel, 181 residential units and 219 parking spaces, but never closed on the purchase.
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