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BostonUrbEx said:
lol "New dick"

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Lita's point seems almost parody; if it weren't for the line of 'ignoring each other,' I'd believe 100% that it was.
 
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There's lots of empty space in northern Maine she could bike around. Or how about Kansas?
 
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I find her comment about tourist to be elitist and pretty much rather hateful. She wants a city with only people she approves of.
 
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gooseberry said:
There's lots of empty space in northern Maine she could bike around. Or how about Kansas?
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Or that scenic route down the coast of California, Paseo del Mar. Oh wait....
 
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Lita Newdick sounds like the name of a washed up 'end of the line' porn star
 
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KentXie said:
I left her a comment. Hopefully she sees the dangers of her proposal.
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Are we sure she wasn't joking? I'm pretty sure terms like "exquisite emptiness" are meant to lampoon the open space folks, especially when comparing that emptiness to glittering shops.
 
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I really have no idea. NIMBYs do have the tendency to complain about anything but I find sarcasm harder to detect and less effective if the subject she is parodying happens to go her way. It would have been better if she had wrote this while the project was still up for debate if that was her intent.
 
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Thank you. My Advanced Writing Class in the Discipline has done wonders for me in keeping my writing from being too emotionally charged and professional.
 
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Minor nugget of information that I think is interesting.

Assembly Row project, when all is completed, will raise an estimated $17 million in annual property taxes, from the entire project.

Copley Tower will raise an estimated $7.2 million in annual property taxes.
 
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What's the total square footage differential, though?

Also, although beside the point, Somerville is probably putting in alot more than $17mil in order to set up the infrastructure and such, whereas what does Boston have to do to let a tower go up?
 
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I dont understand the infrastructure thing.

The Assembly Square people should pay Sommerville $100m for the right to develop in their fair city.

Likewise, the copley people should have to turn Copley T stop into freaking grand central in return for the rights to develop there. Ill settle for an underpass, marble benches and more paint though.
 
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@KentXie - I'm 100% for this project (natch), but I'm sorry... whether or not this particular luxury condo tower gets built or not has no serious bearing on Boston's future. At the very least, invoking Detroit is just as hyperbolic as Newdick's own NIMBY rhetoric. If this thing gets built, it will look pretty in the skyline and house a few hundred rich people. If it doesn't, what effect will that have on Boston's actual engines of growth? Yes, luxury condos may be symptomatic of progress and success, but they don't create it.

I'd be much more sympathetic with your line of reasoning if, say, lab facilities in Kendall Sq were getting shot down by the community out of a similar anti "commerce" ideology.

Also, in case any of you still think LD is trolling us...read this.
 
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Assembly Row is getting an estimated $110 million in government money.
 
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blade_bltz said:
@KentXie - I'm 100% for this project (natch), but I'm sorry... whether or not this particular luxury condo tower gets built or not has no serious bearing on Boston's future. At the very least, invoking Detroit is just as hyperbolic as Newdick's own NIMBY rhetoric. If this thing gets built, it will look pretty in the skyline and house a few hundred rich people. If it doesn't, what effect will that have on Boston's actual engines of growth? Yes, luxury condos may be symptomatic of progress and success, but they don't create it.

I'd be much more sympathetic with your line of reasoning if, say, lab facilities in Kendall Sq were getting shot down by the community out of a similar anti "commerce" ideology.

Also, in case any of you still think LD is trolling us...read this.
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Re-read my post. I was not responding specifically Copley Place. I was responding to her "Occupy the Expansion" and her hope that commerce would one day be satisfied.

However, if I wanted to respond more directly to Copley Place tower, I would have added that by stopping one project in order to curb expansion (and one can say that Lita's message is subtle. She is invoking the fear of corporations taking over the city), a precedent is set for other projects that new development could be stopped if it serves to profit the developers. I didn't write that however because I didn't believe Copley Place is a good example to use nor do I think there enough people that support a stagnant Boston.
 
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^ Ah, I interpreted LD's "Expansion" as the expansion of Neiman Marcus in particular...leading me to read your post in a different light.
 
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KentXie said:
Re-read my post. I was not responding specifically Copley Place. I was responding to her "Occupy the Expansion" and her hope that commerce would one day be satisfied.

However, if I wanted to respond more directly to Copley Place tower, I would have added that by stopping one project in order to curb expansion (and one can say that Lita's message is subtle. She is invoking the fear of corporations taking over the city), a precedent is set for other projects that new development could be stopped if it serves to profit the developers. I didn't write that however because I didn't believe Copley Place is a good example to use nor do I think there enough people that support a stagnant Boston.
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Kent,

Lita is just NMwatch in drag

There is no relevant substance in her comment -- Corporations are the city -- well ok some are Sole Proprietorships or LLC's -- she just as NMwatch should be down at the Dewey Occupation sitting in the sign tent drawing signs
 
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