Recent content by Justbuildit

Approved as of tonight

The arched portions are also getting the treatment now as viewed from Summer St this morning.

I agree that this building appears to have been completed in 2021, and it looks like it popped up recently because of a Notice of Project Alteration that was just filed with the BPDA (below). Apparently the owner is trying to pivot from condos to rentals, including the affordable units. Not sure...

Might be that there are just too many cars. My ruthless capitalist mindset would tell me we therefore need to tax drivers and use that revenue to improve traffic infrastructure and fund public transit so people have more and better options to commute into and around the metro area. Making...

Here you go, new as of a few years ago. Additional coverage below: https://www.bostonplans.org/news-calendar/news-updates/2021/12/22/mayor-wu-eliminates-parking-minimums-for-affordabl "The amendment will remove parking minimums for residential developments where at least 60 percent of the...

Note that the lack of parking does not require zoning relief since this is 100% affordable. Relief is still needed for FAR, setbacks, and open space, but this is a great example of the new parking regs in practice. Replacing a vacant laundromat with 24 deed-restricted affordable housing units...

A conservative think-tank's white paper relying on 2021 numbers and bemoaning the punitive SALT provision in (the conservative-drafted) TCJA? Shocker. Again, opportunistic overinterpretations of spurious data from the midst of the pandemic flux is unreliable at best. Tax receipts don't lie...

Thank you for your helpful contribution. Just for the sake of extra pedantry, "virtually one station" does, indeed, equal two stations. Great content!

Thanks for the update and for finding an agreeable path to compliance. Winchester is so fortunate to have two commuter rail stations providing fast, frequent service into and out of Boston. It's great that the zoning overlay makes it possible for more people to have access to such convenience...

Aha! I had been trying to figure out what that was since going by it a few weeks ago. Thanks for the update and confirmation. Any idea if this is to support new/upcoming projects in the area, or just grid resilience/redundancy? As for location, it's on the east side of Charles St, which puts it...

According to the filing (and, well, counting) this is going to have 9 occupied floors (plus mechanical penthouse). By my eye the top of the steel is the roof of floor 9, so it's near topping out already. Pretty quick steel work. While I don't love this one, just get it done and open...

The commonwealth is saved!!

No, I absolutely see that and appreciate the historic industrial or pure play commercial uses of both neighborhoods. So much of the "Kendall" area housing is East Cambridge on the grid a bit further out by my eye, with the area closest to the station being office or MIT-associated buildings...

Super cool map! We really need to pump up those financial district and "almost Seaport but kind of industrial area" numbers. Kendall is also begging for some real housing. Thanks for making this!

I don't think the current law contemplates bypassing train stations...? The sticks are related to direct funding from the Commonwealth for infrastructure and related programs. Details below, just so we're clear...