WEST END—Places, everyone! Another fight over a tower's height in Boston: "Mayor Thomas M. Menino urged Boston Properties to lower the height of its proposed 45-story residential tower in North Station on Thursday, insisting the developer consider neighborhood concerns about setting a precedent with a skyscraper at the TD Garden." [Biz Journal]
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SOMEWHERE IN BOSTON—At least "Midtown" isn't "SoBo," eh? "Midtown Manhattan is so-named because it is in the middle of the island. It is neither uptown, nor downtown. It is the Goldilocks of New York cross sections. Meanwhile, Boston's outline is much too amorphous to label a mid-point, and even if we tried, it sure as heck wouldn't be in Downtown Crossing, which, after all, has the word Downtown in it." [Daily]
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ROXBURY—Suggestions welcome: "The city is eying two large Washington Street parcels for private development just a stone's throw from a number of major projects under way in the Dudley Square area." [Boston.com]
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