1.   A more dramatic location, the Ellis Island-like Immigration Station in East Boston, is more or less inaccessible to downtown tourists and faces significant neighborhood opposition.

2.   But in most communities, such attempts have bogged down because of politics, neighborhood opposition, lack of money and difficulty finding appropriate buildings.

3.   Despite bright hopes, however, Boston developers often find neighborhood opposition that is difficult to overcome.

4.   Even though the city has been zoned for high-rise housing in some areas for decades, neighborhood opposition stalls projects for years.

5.   Given that neighborhood opposition to most projects is minimal,

6.   Neighborhood opposition also has been successful in keeping apartment complexes out of some single family residential areas, Heimsath said.

7.   Neighborhood opposition to new public housing is often intense.

8.   Neighborhood opposition will veto a proposed wall, he said.

9.   Regardless of neighborhood opposition, customers are patronizing the chain stores.

10.   Proposed multiple-family dwellings, even luxury ones, sometimes face neighborhood opposition and political oblivion.