Monthly Archives: March 2010

Busted Condo Project Now Has a Busted Sign

Posted on March 25, 2010 by admin

Was walking around Lechmere this morning and noticed that at NorthPoint, the would-be Cambridge multi-billion-dollar mini-city plagued by lawsuits and nasty infighting and sluggish sales (just five market-rate condos have closed since the start of last July), even the signs … Continue reading →

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And the Random Piece of Garbage Floating Down Fort Point Channel Today Is…

Posted on March 24, 2010 by admin

… part of what used to be some guy’s dock. Ahoy!

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New in the Globe: The Cost of Revenge

Posted on March 23, 2010 by admin

My latest column for the Globe went online yesterday. It argues that Vornado and Steve Roth won’t be wicked heartbroken if the city does follow through on its eminent domain threats at the stalled Filene’s redevelopment site. Any taking means that … Continue reading →

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Target Goes RoboCop

Posted on March 23, 2010 by admin

I don’t know what type of advanced weaponry this death-wagon comes equipped with. Nor do I want to find out.

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Girl’s Parents Don’t Want Her to Eat Unless She Can Get Into Harvard

Posted on March 23, 2010 by admin

Overheard on the T yesterday: A gaggle of teenagers grousing about college. One girl is asked about how awesome it must be to have gotten into MIT. She responds, not very, because nothing but Harvard will do for her parents. … Continue reading →

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New in Today’s Globe: Criminals Ruin Everything

Posted on March 15, 2010 by admin

Alleged criminals, that is. I have an Op-Ed column in today’s Globe tracing a commercial real estate foreclosure in Roxbury back to the Dianne Wilkerson scandal. Not the bra-stuffing part, but the (alleged!) $15,000 crooked land deal pay-for-play part. Read … Continue reading →

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This Week in B&T: This Fan, it is Absolutely Covered in it

Posted on March 15, 2010 by admin

Hey everybody here’s some red hot commercial real estate hotness to dry yourself to/peruse while waiting for the MBTA to get un-flooded. So remember when the Waltham office trophy Bay Colony Corporate Center got foreclosed on because it was worth … Continue reading →

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Stairway to Nowhere

Posted on March 4, 2010 by admin

Alternate title: Fort Point Channel full of trash, unsurprisingly. Saw this rando staircase floating between Summer and Congress a couple days ago. That is all.

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Five Other Dignified Career Moves Chad Ochocinco Considered, and Rejected, Before Joining Buzz Aldrin on Dancing With the Stars

Posted on March 2, 2010 by admin

1. Travel the country’s finest gas stations and car washes, singing the hit romantical ballad On the Wings of Love. 2. Hold Fonzworth Bentley‘s umbrella. 3. Assistant manager at Topeka TGI Friday’s. 4. Sensitivity trainer for John Mayer’s racist crotch. … Continue reading →

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Pitchork Spies on the xx

Posted on March 1, 2010 by admin
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