Was this not the project that was going to do work to repair things like this condition of the bridge support columns on the viaduct or this condition at Route 16 or finally make the repair at Roosevelt Circle?
I haven't seen many newly financed projects go into development since rates got jacked starting in Jan 2022. Most of the projects that have gone in seemed to have some sort of financing locked in before then. The 60 Kilmarnock seemed to have money flowing in late 2020 and early 2021. The tower...
It's wild that I'm typing this - since I generally do not like gray on buildings, but, I kind of like how it contrasts with its surrounding buildings - both the traditional brick and contemporary midrise buildings.
Non-food bike couriers are still around. But, Mess folks are much less common today tho than 15-20 years back.
Like a lot of gig/service work, there's a huge spatial mismatch between where folks who can afford to work for that cheap live and where folks who want those kinds of services live...
I suspect a lot of the early movers are actually doing this. Making small changes that allow compliance. But I also suspect they were already trying to deal with affordability through zoning already.
40B gives a good amount of control to localities/devolves power.
MBTA Communities removes some key local controls - zone size, lowest unit density standard, age restrictions.
The freak-out is proportional to the perceived "loss" of "local control". To be honest, the amount of local control (to exclude) is one of the cardinal sins of the original colonist's forms of government.
The person in the halls of power who understands this best just tried to make that point, but, got shut down hard by our fearless leader in the corner office. So...
I don't think there's enough state money to do a mini arbor way project on the north end of town for a while yet.
I generally agree with the concept but I think this might be a progressive MassDOT highway department thinking of doing highway "harm reduction".
And the public utility agencies have got to be better at controlling these kind of changes if the states are certifying this for public transportation.
The current lack of new housing development is really all about the lack of affordable capital for larger scale of development. Now would be the time for the feds or state to come in a pump up the 100% affordable housing market with low interest loans, but, we are stuck with inaction.