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Putting this link here to a Globe article on the cost and complexity of building over highway and transit infrastructure in Boston. A half-dozen or so projects covered.

David Simon had had enough.

It was fall 2016, and the CEO of Simon Property Group — the largest owner of shopping malls in the US — had spent nearly a decade trying to build a skyscraper at Copley Place. Developing a 52-story tower in Boston’s Back Bay is complex under the best of circumstances, and this one was made far more complicated by its proposed location: On a deck above the Massachusetts Turnpike, with tens of thousands of cars a day whizzing underneath. The safety and engineering review was endless. Eventually, Simon pulled the plug.

“We are excellent project managers and had obtained 14 out of the 15 required approvals needed to proceed with the tower and expected to get the last one,” Simon told analysts on a conference call a few weeks later. “Unfortunately, the goalpost kept moving.”
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Towering risks: As development rises above the Mass. Pike and MBTA stations, the complexity of such mega-projects is in focus - The Boston Globe

Several of the largest projects in Boston are underway atop highways and transportation hubs, highlighting the cost and complexity of such huge developments.
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Bos77 said:
I'd vote for a lousy Delta billboard over any of the ambulance-chaser law firms posted all over town.
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It's not so much what's on the billboard, it's that it's even there at all. I'm not against billboards per se, but that particular location is pretty intrusive.
 
In my junkbox of random ideas to make a small dent on issues we care about:

A regulation that gives a variance to any building that legally has a billboard. Owner can build 2-3 additional stories on the site in exchange for a covenant not to put a billboard up again. The view is already blocked and an extra few stories looks more attractive than a hulking sign so I could see potential for neighbor support among the aesthetes. Then maybe we can secretly loosen billboard regulations on the back end and create a self feeding loop of new 2-3 story additions.
 
Sadly, one of the recent apartment building on Braintree St was built around the billboard on its site. Those suckers are lucrative.
 
From late last month.. As you can see, I obviously jerry-rigged the car to self drive on the pike while I climbed to the back seat to snap this single picture #NailedIt #WorthIt :cool::ROFLMAO: /s

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