Boston Needs No Benchmark

Boston has once again been ear-marked as the runner up, second on the scene, younger sibling, and wannabe, to New York City. This past week's Boston Sunday Globe published the article "The Manhattanization of Boston", where the city's recent construction boom of high-end and high-priced condo developments was referred to as a reaction to what is already available and already been done in New York. If there's one thing Bostonians don't respond well to, it's beling pinned beneath the Big Apple, and being told they're unoriginal. However, later in the article, it was noted that many developers said it's less of Boston catching up with New York, rather Boston playing its part in an era of International modernism within urban condominium developments.

All of the developments mentioned in the article are featured on BostonCondoGroup.com. For more information on any of them, please click on their links below:

Residences at Battery Wharf

Residences at The Intercontinental

45 Province Street

Ritz Carlton Towers

One Charles

Trinity Place

The Belvedere

Mandarin Oriental Boston

Taj Boston

The Heritage on the Garden

Sources: "The Manhattanization Of Boston" Thomas C. Palmer Jr., The Boston Globe, March 25, 2007