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'Skyline-LOW District" seems like a bit of a misnomer.

I love that this project did not mess with the stretch of neighborhood businesses in the cool one-story building fronting Peterborough—

I think you have to look at Lowell firmly through the lens of a Gateway City. It has a significant low income and socially vulnerable population and always will. It is outside the inner Boston metro area. It will never be Cambridge or Portland, ME, for example. But in the context of Gateway...

4/7/2024 —

All things considered, a nice addition to the hood (from yesterday) —

Happened to drive by this the other day on Bedford Road in Lexington. Though it’s not far from 128, it is definitely the largest-scale building around. Slated to open in the fall, this “purpose-built life science building” will be 310k square-feet over six stories with 750 (!) parking spaces...

Some updates on a few Lowell projects — A small but well executed revitalization of a block of historic buildings along the Upper Pawtucket Canal The Lowell High School project ( after considerable debate, Lowell decided to renovate the high school in the downtown area) Acre Crossing...

More photos of The Beck (from yesterday) 290 units directly across from the Bradford commuter rail station and on the Merrimack River —

I think anyone who’s used the original ‘Silver Lines’ has a right to be heavily suspect of yet another Silver Line extension. I lived off Washington in the South End for a while. It had a bus line the MBTA markets as a rapid transit line — it is no such thing. The bus lanes mostly function as...

I realize the barriers, but it would definitely be a shame to lose all of these buildings. There’s the foundations for an awesome adaptive reuse project. Cool renovation of a power plant down in Savannah that opened a couple years back below. The hotel is stunning. You can’t recreate this stuff...

A few shots of the site from the riverfront in front of Encore —

The Artemas will join a fair amount of redevelopment that is right on the bike trail or within very close proximity —

The Artemes (396 residential units) under construction on Norman Street & Air Force Road near Night Shift Brewing and just a stone’s throw from the Northern Strand Trail. The scale of this is impressive. Daylight shots are right from the bike trail —

Looks like existing building is about to come down —

Google Store looks like it’s almost ready to open, going into the new building on Newbury at Dartmouth St. —

This map is highly suspect. White Mountain National Forrest makes up like 1/8 of the land area in New Hampshire. It is not the same thing as Faneuil Hall. And Faneuil Hall is not the same as a single building like the B&J's Factory or the LLBean Flagship Store

Streets linking Washington to Tremont/Common seem like low hanging fruit for infrastructure improvement -- West Street Winter Street is a little better but room for improvement The rest show some of the challenges from Quincy Market area --

I snapped a few photos of the street-level environment of Downtown Crossing and Faneuil Hall over the weekend and have attached photos here along with some general observations. All in all, I think we are holding our own. I was surprised that the vacancies were maybe even more perceptible than...

3-3-2024 - The glass has a noticeably more greenish/brownish hue than the surrounding new builds, although this effect may have been slightly amplified by the overcast conditions

3-3-2024 —