Equilibria
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Yea sure tall buildings are cool. MT was a win, Winthrop is a complete fail-They reneged on the affordable housing building in chinatown and the "great hall".... and the building is clearly bad architecture. The "neighborhood" here isnt really a neighborhood at all with many people never seeing the garage wedged deep in the financial district. They used COVID as an excuse to cheap out on everything in a housing market that could barely be any hotter if it tried and theyre walking away scott free with huge bags of cash
It's got nothing to do with tall buildings. I won't argue that MP bait-and-switched the City on affordable housing, but they didn't renege on the payments to buy the garage and they offered more than everyone else. That's why they got to buy the garage in the first place: they offered the highest bid for it.
The "Great Hall" was (as others have noted) a fantasy render that was physically impossible to build. Any of the other proposals would have been the same way. (To be clear: this was not my favorite bid at the time).
"Clearly bad architecture" is not clear at all. It's just your taste and your opinion. I like this building fine.