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Hot tip: this is going to be quite a sight to see rise from the Independence Wharf observation deck:

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Wouldn’t be surprised if Fidelity decides at one point as they watch this go up from next door, “you know, we could use a nice sexy new HQ…”
 
awood91 said:
Wouldn’t be surprised if Fidelity decides at one point as they watch this go up from next door, “you know, we could use a nice sexy new HQ…”
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They are already in progress with that. Commonwealth Pier.
 
DAVE said:
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South Station is giving homeless people the cold shoulder - The Boston Globe

Homeless people seeking shelter used to be allowed to stay inside South Station past midnight, but these days, the downtown train hub is locking its doors overnight.
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This is really upsetting, and I hope someone at the city can put pressure on this to change.
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Already fixed
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âItâs a matter of basic humanityâ: Healey says homeless people can stay in South Station on cold nights. - The Boston Globe

Governor Maura Healey reversed a policy at South Station and will open the state-owned transit hub during periods of extreme weather.
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Patrick Winn said:
This is the tower “going vertical,” no?! 🎉🥳
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Yes, it is. I wondered the same thing. I rode Acela on Tuesday and asked a foreman if the core is going to keep rising. Although an absolutely moronic question, he knew what I meant. He said, 'that's the plan...clear sailing 🤞'
 
Blackbird said:
So, I actually don’t know what this is referring to.
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JP Morgan took control of of the New York New Haven railroad sometime around 1903 and thus acquired ownership of the brand-new South Station. A key tactic in his overall railroad war strategy vs. the Boston & Maine (then controlling North Station) was to never allow for a conduit track to be built connecting the two stations. Thus, the most notorious Gilded Age tycoon (other than perhaps Vanderbilt or Carnegie) is directly responsible for the lack of a North-South Rail Link.
 
In NYC, they just opened the GCT-Jamaica LIRR station connection. Now you can get from the LIRR to MetroNorth RR without going into Penn, then taking the A and then S trains (about 20 minutes) to GCT. People are going nuts over it. It takes 4.5 minutes to get from the street level to the platform 17 stories underground.

However, it also took 20 years and billions of dollars to complete. So I guess pick your poison. Sorry for the further "derailment".
 
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