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Well.
If I ever have the urge to have any of the anthills in my yard upgraded to mountains....

I'll know where to look.

Is archboston a union shop btw?
 
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SeamusMcFly said:
Well.
If I ever have the urge to have any of the anthills in my yard upgraded to mountains....

I'll know where to look.

Is archboston a union shop btw?
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I'll just copy/paste this the next time a thread spends 3 pages ranting about how "boring" a 5-story structure on some back road is in a rendering, only to spend 3 more pages praising its materials choices later.

I'm a transportation planner. I care about this like others on this site care about every new building in Greater Boston being another Bilbao Guggenheim Museum. You may think its silly, but then, I think complaining about how an unfinished Greenway or Causeway Street streetscape look is silly, and its gotten me nowhere.
 
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Back on track here: anyone care to share any info on when this project will get going. They did the demo work pretty quick several months ago but I haven't seen any activity at the site since then. I am really looking forward to this project.
 
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Tiny bit of activity:
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Adding a floor, looks like:
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Nice....all the asphalt is gone. And I've seen that crane from all over Brighton; had no idea they were adding a floor(?)
 
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I think it's in the PNF somewhere, I recall, part of the deal was adding another floor of parking. It's so dumb, but what can you do?
 
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I guess if it prevents us from getting a whole 'nother garage elsewhere then so be it.
 
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Yeah, New Balance said to mitigate for the lost surface spaces it is the most cost-efficient and aesthetically preferred to just add a floor or two to their existing garage. If the whole site plan gets realized, then this will definitely have been a good call.
 
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This is adjacent to WGBH.
 
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Can someone explain to me the draw of building a boutique hotel? I understand the city still lacks hotel rooms, but why go boutique when you could issue an RFP and very likely get a Hilton or Marriott-flagged property.
 
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Bergeron37 said:
Can someone explain to me the draw of building a boutique hotel? I understand the city still lacks hotel rooms, but why go boutique when you could issue an RFP and very likely get a Hilton or Marriott-flagged property.
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Locally-owned businesses ALWAYS invest more money in the community over time than a corporately-owned business does. And the impact of most tourism jobs is invested less and less locally because bigger companies generally control those services.

Example: If you spend $1 at Starbucks, only $0.15 is reinvested locally. But if you spend $1 at a local coffee joint (say J.P. Licks), $0.45 will be reinvested locally.

A boutique hotel resolves that issue.
 
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Oh god, that whole Birmingham Parkway strip needs to die a painful death.
 
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I've always thought that those businesses would likely fail one day, and you could remove both them and the North Beacon Road, leaving only Soldiers Field Road. That exchange at the North Beacon Street Bridge must be horrible, so it would definitly not be missed.
 
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Would miss IHOP
 
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dshoost88 said:
Locally-owned businesses ALWAYS invest more money in the community over time than a corporately-owned business does. And the impact of most tourism jobs is invested less and less locally because bigger companies generally control those services.

Example: If you spend $1 at Starbucks, only $0.15 is reinvested locally. But if you spend $1 at a local coffee joint (say J.P. Licks), $0.45 will be reinvested locally.

A boutique hotel resolves that issue.
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Not necessarily. "Boutique hotel" does not mean "locally-owned bed-and-breakfast" unless you have some specific info on what's going in there. I bet in this case you're looking at an Aloft or some other corporate "boutique" concept.
 
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kz1000ps said:
Oh god, that whole Birmingham Parkway strip needs to die a painful death.
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I've always had a grandiose idea of the city doing a land swap for those businesses and moving them to Western Ave on Smith field and the adjacent DCR lot. Then bulldoze the whole thing and make a park. Yeah they are all corporate, but its the only Starbucks in the area, a really good liquor store, a 24/7 ihop and the iparty gets pretty good business too. The only real shame would be losing the first Staples ever, but its such a dumpy building its not too much of a loss. Instant tenants might get a developer interested.

The Birmingham Parkway is the most useless road in the city. It's been redundant since they extended SF Road past Market Street, and even more useless after they built the pike. I don't understand why it wasnt torn out 50 years ago. It does NOTHING but make every intersection it touches harder to navigate.
 
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