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Originally Posted by aquablue
I honestly don't care about your Dad's anecdotal story. It's probably highly biased anyway given this is a skyscraper site populated by people who primarily want development first, heritage later. In my opinion, the younger generation don't give a rats ass about preservation and historic areas of cities, they wouldn't show up anyway no matter the time of day. If it weren't for these groups of folks who have seen the wanton destruction of the past first hand, there would be no voice against the developers profit-driven plans that usually disregard heritage and history. I'm not badmouthing people who actually give a crap about a city to give their time and energy to the preservation of historic areas. So good on these people for having the balls to stand up for the seaport.
I personally see no reason to build high rises next to the historic district. It's a total greed job. You don't see London building high rises in the middle of Chelsea or Westminster, do you? You build skyscrapers in the skyscraper zone and build nice modern low rises that won't overpower the historic district. USA has few enough historic areas that it's not worth messing with any more of them.
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WTF are you rambling about? This site is a freaking parking lot and these folks that you think are preservation minded are not even close to caring about preservation. They live in the ugly towers-in-the-park South Bridge towers. They are against height and density and losing their views.
They also fought against Gehry’s Beekmans tower and that site was also a parking lot so there was nothing to preserve.
They don’t care about preservation or architecture or anything else. If they could choose between an ugly squat Fedders brick box or a tall architectural marvel, they will choose the ugly squat building every time. Furthermore, they wouldn’t care about any nice building getting torn down unless a tall tower replaces it, then they’ll be all up-in-arms. These people are the worst type of NIMBYs.
I guess JMKeynes is right about you after all. Just a troll that’s not even from this area and just talking out of your a*ss.