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Archive for October, 2005


Keep it fresh … ?

Most unexpected comment I’ve received in the past twenty four hours:
"You update your blog too often."



Boston real estate market slows down - I blame Canada

From Curbed.com The Boston Real Estate Blog by way of The Boston Globe:
Curbed Boston: Playoff Hangover?

And now to Boston, where a chill wind blows. Sales of Beantown condos fell 12.3% during the first nine months of 2005, compared with last year’s record-breaking figures. Boston brokers say the whole market’s shivering.

”We’re seeing a slowdown across [...]



Four hundred posts, four hundred visitors

Total visitors to my website, March 18: 9Total visitors to my website today (so far): 452
If I get to 1000 visitors a day to my site, I’m giving up doing anything else but sit at Starbucks, all day.



Hanover Street, North End commercial space for sale, $5 million

Cool listing of the day.
13,000 square feet of commercial/retail space, including office space and a 4500 square foot restaurant on two floors, 100% occupied.
Hanover Street, North End$5,000,000
Contact me for more information!



My life is complete: Boston Real Estate Blog is quoted in Curbed

My life’s goal has been achieved.  My blog (or, at least, a link to it) appeared in an entry on New York City’s pre-eminent, sometimes catty, sometimes bitchy, sometimes just plain mean real estate blog, curbed.
You’d think the story’s author would’ve been considerate enough to mention me, by name, or perhaps have chosen to include [...]



Effective urban design requires good planning

Jay Fitzgerald of the Herald posted a blog entry recently about Boston’s urban renewal plans of the 1960s.  He makes mention of an MIT paper on design and planning (warning, PDF file).
The study was on the renewal plans for the Faneuil Hall / Waterfront area, and whether these plans were created effectively, i.e., did they [...]




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