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It goes with the old mantra "It's easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission": "Can we take down the old facades?" "No." "Oops the facades fell down. My bad."
 
It goes with the old mantra "It's easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission": "Can we take down the old facades?" "No." "Oops the facades fell down. My bad."
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That'd be great if a 1000 ft tower could be pulled off that way.
 
Did any historic preservationists actually ask for these facades to be preserved? I don't think the buildings were protected landmarks -- they've been altered too many times over the decades.
 
Ron Newman said:
Did any historic preservationists actually ask for these facades to be preserved? I don't think the buildings were protected landmarks -- they've been altered too many times over the decades.
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A ham-handed gesture, most likely, and disingenuous to boot.

I'll miss Avalon, for all the great acts I saw there "in my youth." The real abomination, however, is the loss of the Rat.
 
I found out recently that a neighbor of mine built an illegal third-story (this was before I was his neighbor). He only had a permit for internal demo. Of course, the city didn't make him take the addition down. He just had to pay a fine and make some other concessions.

That would be quite amusing if a 1000 ft tower went up... "Oops sorry, I thought I had the right permits!"
 
BarbaricManchurian said:
Good, the old facades looked awful on the new modern facade in the renderings. Hopefully now it will look like a true modern club street, not some half-assed attempt looking back in history instead of forwards. For clubs, I'm sure everyone prefers more modern (at least for the facades), for other things, not so much but finally this half assed appeasement "failed" (yeah like that's what really happened ^.^).
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Who cares about what the OUTSIDE of a club looks like? Why does it have to be "modern"? Tons of clubs are old factories, warehouses or old homes. You go in and then its all crazy and modern with the glass bar lit up red and whatnot. "Everyone" knows you dont always judge the place by the outside. Clubs are highly overrated anyway. But I'm glad they didnt save the facade it looked like shit.
 
^^Well, some people like jazz clubs, some people like classical, some people like more modern music and partying, so i'm pretty sure not everyone likes modern clubs. Anyway, of course when people say "everyone" its a figure of speech, I meant given a choice, the vast majority of people would support a more modern vs a more ancient facade, and definately not a shitty looking mish-mash of the two. On that, we agree, at least they didn't go with the shitty original design and made the facade at least look consistant.
 
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the House of Blues complex, which will include a 2500-capacity theater, will now likely open in February, say sources at Live Nation, the exclusive booker. When Patrick Lyons?s Lansdowne Street clubs were shuttered, and the lease bought by HoB, the company was hoping to open the theater/dining complex by the end of 2008.
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http://thephoenix.com/Boston/News/66406-Club-to-theater-update/
 
I'm AMAZED!

No, not that completion has been delayed, but that someone still reads the Phoenix.
 
JimboJones said:
I'm AMAZED!

No, not that completion has been delayed, but that someone still reads the Phoenix.
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I only read it online(free) and seldom make it past the first screen. I did pick up a few copies this spring to use as weed guard under the mulch. Gonna be kind of weird when some future archeologist excavates and finds all those adult ads.
 
Ha ha, you know I was joking. Next up we should try to find someone who still reads Harper's ... or the Atlantic.
 
I read all of these publications from time to time, as well as the New Yorker (which I subscribe to)
 
I just dont get the floor plan. How is this a concert venue?

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jass said:
I just dont get the floor plan. How is this a concert venue?
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having been to many of the House of Blues venues (including Las Vegas and New Orleans) it looks like this venue, like the Las Vegas venue in the Mandalay Bay hotel, will have a large general admission floor area (with perhaps the ability to add seats for the rare sit down concert that may be held here) and then a large and rather steep balcony area with reserved seating.
 
I hope the developer has given some thought about how to deal with the impact of home runs on the facade.
 
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