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Re: Alexandra Hotel Spits coffee at screen It sold! https://thebostonsun.com/2017/07/28/hotel-alexandra-sells-to-cambridge-company-to-close-in-12-months/ There is the small matter of a 12 month closing time, but it's encouraging news.

Boston apparently already has $6 mil on hand to redo Summer Street. The city council expects work to start in September, which seems really fast considering that there haven't been any meetings or public plans yet.

Photobucket is shutting down their free hosting services: https://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/photobucket-just-killed-a-chunk-of-internet-history?utm_term=.jaLrj3mJo#.xbAkjEPMb Lots of old posts on this forum (and elsewhere) will become unreadable.

The BBC's Bunkers, Brutalism, and Bloodymindedness documentary makes this connection explicit - some of the junior draftsmen, architects, and engineers building things like this during the war returned to their education and careers afterwards and continued to work with the concrete that enables...

Summary judgement will allow the city to resume installing the ADA curb ramps: http://beaconhilltimes.com/2017/05/24/suffolk-superior-court-rules-in-citys-favor-on-ada-ramps/

Boston has been working on a new parking-protected bike lane on Westland Street: It isn't finished yet, they tweeted that they are going to finish work once the rain and the long weekend are over.

The town has already approved $850k for engineering and land acquisition to get it ready for construction, but opponents to a rail trail proposal in Swampscott have forced it onto the ballot in a special election: http://www.itemlive.com/news/swampscott-voters-to-decide-rail-trail-fate/

Lots of meetings and a little infrastructure going in this week. So far: Monday: Meetings on two short separated bike lanes (Brattle Street leaving Harvard and Mass Ave approaching Harvard) in Cambridge Tuesday: Meeting on the South Bay Trail, and on the Dorchester Greenway. Wednesday: Boston...

The trail connecting Rozzie Square to the Arboretum and then onto Forest Hills is at the 10% design stage: http://www.bulletinnewspapers.com/23511/285448/a/arboretum-plan-coming-together They are moving ahead with a paved design for all-weather utility. There's a smattering of the usual...

Google's new Maps edit process is terrible, I have a <50% success rate trying to get them to add new infrastructure and fix errors.

Re: Alexandra Hotel No deal from either of the two interested buyers: http://thebostonsun.com/2017/05/05/blighted-hotel-alexandra-deal-falls-through-this-week-after-promising-talks-with-two-buyers/ The next hope the article describes is to use the review process for the new Scientology HQ in...

Boston appears to have abandoned its plans to replace the bridge: https://commonwealthmagazine.org/politics/boston-abandons-long-island-bridge/

It sounds like there was a relatively positive meeting for Cambridge's quick-build demonstration separated bike lanes on Cambridge Street: http://www.cambridgeday.com/2017/04/27/separated-bike-path-for-cambridge-street-welcomed-for-installation-as-soon-as-june/ Slides are here...

Wow, that's crazy how close the Lynnfield vote came. In cases where a town declines a lease offer does the rail corridor stay with the state until trail advocates can try again in a few years, or does the state start looking for other uses like selling it to abutters?

We have a couple chances to hear some actual odes to Brutalism over the next few weeks: