Is Rents, Taxes, Food, Gas the name of an up-and-coming Boston hardcore band? Double bass over a 6/8 did make a lot of Middle East peasants angry back in the day, so I'm not surprised.
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Is Rents, Taxes, Food, Gas the name of an up-and-coming Boston hardcore band? Double bass over a 6/8 did make a lot of Middle East peasants angry back in the day, so I'm not surprised.
All but the most adventurous hardcore -- actual "hardcore" and not math or post-hardcore or art punk etc etc etc. -- is pretty exclusively 4/4. There's plenty of cut-time in the breakdowns, but that's not a time signature change.
Agree it wouldn't be a terrible name for a first band, though. Clever post!
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I dunno though, I could also see Rent, Taxes, Food, and Gas being something like an Animals as Leaders song rather than a band of its own
To be fair, I was more of a Pioneer Valley / Worcester Palladium metalcore guy. Killswitch and all. The Middle East was a real trip from Umass just to get shit on by aggro BU kids from New Jersey.
For that crowd, the proposed name is WAY too literate (I kid!).
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The Chiofaro Company Begins Phase II of $100 Million Investment in Boston’s Downtown Boston Waterfront
“The Chiofaro Company is pleased to announce the commencement of Phase II of the $100 million reinvestment and reimagination of International Place – a 1.8M SF iconic office destination in Boston….”
https://www.bldup.com/posts/the-chi...stment-in-boston-s-downtown-boston-waterfront
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Phase II is a reinvestment? All these large office properties built prior to 2000, and especially sports stadiums and arenas (TD Garden, $100 million additional two years ago), all need to be reimagined for relevance for public socializing and food and drink offerings. It's not just about work or the game anymore.
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Does this mean the Palms is going away…? Seems like such a dated restaurant on such a visible intersection
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The corner shown in that render is not where The Palm is located. That view, I believe, is at High St. and Oliver St. The Palm is at Oliver St. and Purchase St. Not saying your wrong re: whether The Palm location is/isn't being redeveloped, but it didn't seem like there was any info in the press release one way or the other.
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Ahhh I see. Yeah you’re right this is in back on High St where the donut shop is.
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Developer proposes turning Portland Street office building into 25 apartments
“A developer has filed plans with the Boston Planning Department to convert what is now a vacant six-story office building at 129 Portland St. into 25 apartments and ground-floor retail space, under the city's office-to-residential tax-abatement pilot.
Charlestown developer Greg McCarthy has an agreement to buy the building and then convert it into residential units under the city pilot, which offers a 29-year break on property tax for the building, through an abatement of up to 75% of the building's assessed value. Boston currently assesses at $8.6 million…..”
https://www.universalhub.com/2024/developer-proposes-turning-portland-street-office
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This is great, the Bulfinch triangle should be full of converted brick apartments like the Leather District or Fort Point, in addition to some of the newer builds that went up over the last ~10 years. The Forecaster building next door feels like it's on an island right at the edge of the Triangle (its huge party wall doesn't help matters either). Adding a few hundred more residential units around here would be really great, especially with Congress St reopening soon (maybe).
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The whole west end is far underbuilt and should be ripe for some pretty serious development and redevelopment
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Frankly, it's quite annoying how the recent narrative has somehow framed the concept of exceptionally well-located, good-bones, under-utilized spaces as a huge problem for Boston. Is working with such things hard, yes it is, but it is also a hell of an opportunity if we can get our ass in gear. The framing deserves that sort of balance, as opposed to all doom or all roses.
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18 Residential Units Planned for Downtown Commercial Building
“Plans are in the works for the redevelopment of 295-297 Franklin Street in Downtown Boston, the former home of Umbria Prime. The 5-story brick building could be converted to 18 rental units with help from the city's tax incentives for residential conversion. Plans include 13 studios and five one-bedroom apartments.”
https://www.bldup.com/posts/18-residential-units-planned-for-downtown-commercial-building
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Hey @stick n move , please post wherever you feel best, but FYI, I created a "New Residential Conversion" thread to aggregate this type of activity since not all of it may fall in Downtown/FiDi...and I think there's a lot of interest among forumers to tally this type of activity:
The New Residential Conversion Thread
We have a "New Retail Thread" and a "New Office/Lab Thread." Now I think it's time to launch a "New Residential Conversion Thread." The reason: we've initially been discussing these in threads specific to geographic-specific parts of the city/surroundings, or the topic-specific threads about...
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15 Court Square now proposed for a residential conversion.
Bizarrely asymmetrical window pattern on the north facade--I'm guessing that was done during Boston's Great Stagnation era ca. 1929-1965 when owners could get away with all kinds of bizarre cheapo alterations. Presumably it will be remedied during the conversion. Otherwise, it's a handsome building, if extremely obscured by the huge mass of One Boston Place.
(Also, of course, it is quite buried within labyrinth-like Court Square, though there is something gloriously DTX about that. "How do you get there?" "Well, you can cut through Pi Alley for about 100 yards, or you can navigate through the horseshoe-shaped Court Square, or you can cut through Old City Hall Ave. for about 100 yards. Really, there's no normal way to get there--welcome to DTX!"
Bizarrely asymmetrical window pattern on the north facade--I'm guessing that was done during Boston's Great Stagnation era ca. 1929-1965 when owners could get away with all kinds of bizarre cheapo alterations. Presumably it will be remedied during the conversion. Otherwise, it's a handsome building, if extremely obscured by the huge mass of One Boston Place.
(Also, of course, it is quite buried within labyrinth-like Court Square, though there is something gloriously DTX about that. "How do you get there?" "Well, you can cut through Pi Alley for about 100 yards, or you can navigate through the horseshoe-shaped Court Square, or you can cut through Old City Hall Ave. for about 100 yards. Really, there's no normal way to get there--welcome to DTX!"
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