This is probably a @datadyne question: what is the proper understanding of "5 over 1" ?
Or maybe the answer is "it has morphed" or "its understanding changed as it came to be widely used"
Is it:
Architecture: N stories over a podium of P Stories (where N = 5 and P = 1)
Fire code Type 5 (wood...
1996 after B-school in Evanston IL and earlier in DC and a downtown job commuted from Arlington VA
Upon arrival in Boston overpaid to rent a basement apt near L’burg Sq Beacon Hill (shoulda bought a 2flat in Arlington or the biggest house in Medford for the same monthly $). Rented at St Mary’s...
After again seeing the wood-over-2-floors of fireproofed, I wanted to ask again:
Are the two concrete or fireproofed steel floors
A structural thing (wood can only hold 6 or N floors without making the bottom different)
The first two floors are more likely to burn? More important to "not burn"...
It’s going to look like a stadium, which, since Roman times is always a building that looms over its neighbors.
Whether glassy or power plant, the real question is not what the aerial drone sees, but what folks see at street level.
By excluding parking, Kraft has already done 80% of what’s...
FWIW, this thread title now describes Alford St site as being in "Boston-Everett" I think we'll all be better off keeping in mind that Boston controls the streetfrontage.
I created this thread for the proposed Somernova blocks in Spring Hill, Somerville. DIdn't quite know how to name it / locate it. Wanted to say it was a GLX2Porter or Fitchburg Line project because 80% of it "fronts" the railroad.
To me, this is the kind where the developer should be worked...
Mod note: the 40B Mixed use project to redevelop the closed Winter Hill Star Market (and current drug store and parking) is now at:
Mixed Use (40B Fmr Star Market) | 299 Broadway | Winter Hill | Somerville
Mod note: I created a new thread but then discovered we had an older "Winter Hill Start Market Redevelopment" thread. Please direct all comments about this 40B mixed use project on the slope of Winter Hill to this consolidated thread.
Google-Fu Challenge:
(and I know this exists, I just can't find the right kewords)
I want to find at least one story along the lines of:
"_______ Town Chief of Police testifies that bike paths reduce crime at hearing in __________ Town as the latter considers a bike path"
I seem to remember...
^ Actually Teddy Roosevelt did have the Eire Canal rebuilt (widened and rerouted) to steamship size/standards when he was Governor so it never went away (but like HSR and the interstates it now mostly bypasses the old downtowns)
Obviously ideal during the age of coal, usage now has to contend...
It still seems to me that "the beaches" and central Portland will be long-term winners in the work-from-home / super commuter "long game"
At the risk of being totally anectdotal and only hearing what I want to hear:
- I was surprised to hear a New Yorker, who already lives on the Connecticut...