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I find it surprising and sad that a development project this large could not attract more proposals

The proposal screams big box blandness and the other proposal looked much better. And as I commented a couple months ago, an even better proposal would have been to change the street pattern such that the blocks weren’t so enormous. Hopefully I’m wrong, hopefully it turns out well. Sure, it’s...

Fucking depressing.

I dont get why the headways are still so bad for OL? This doesnt seem like a huge deficit at this point.

These are very nice shots. Well done

And if the city can (they won't, but they could) encourage aggressive development all around West Station, something similar could happen here, too. Yes, most of this area is Harvard and BU, but 1) the city could push them to go taller and denser near the station and 2) there is still plenty of...

Great improvements. Doublesided is huge, and I like that each bus stop will be numbered. Good for placemaking, and good for wayfinding. I think the spectrum-y part of me has always wanted to take the 86 all the way from Sullivan to Cleveland Circle but never did. My friend's sister did once...

Couple of good top offs of the local one story buildings. The first is in Arlington Ctr; the second isn’t new but was added sometime between 2007 and 2011, according to google street view. But it looked newly renovated and its progress so I’m adding it anyway.

Check it out from halfway up the hill on Conway. Since youre standing above it, this, plus the new one built a couple years ago across the street, really give an impression. Im guessing same is true for up on Penfield/Pinehurst. I tried taking a pic but the camera doesnt do it justice.

Not sure if you read what I posted but the lindemann has several dozen people who live there. They are getting care. The rotunda is the front yard for residents. I would be careful with saying “encouraging them to congregate there”—many of the residences have programs in the day and there’s a...

I’m really only lamenting the loss of the entire ROW, not the later loss of the small segment off Spring St didn’t become a linear path—I do think it would’ve been nice, and unique, for something like that, but we are a nation of private property rights no matter the cost, and so no, it would...

Cant really capture the effect with a cell phone camera, but from Conway and also from the train station, this building is already creating a nice effect, rising up in the distance but filling in some of the empty space and creating a more urban feel. More of this, please.

I was thinking this would be a good spot for a Verizon store, a Legal Seafoods, and a Capitol One.

@F-Line to Dudley can speak to the titanically disgusting moronity of Dedham's decision to sink the chance of turning this line into an OL extension back in the day. Probably the most egregious and unforgivable example of a transit failure and loss of a very direct ROW straight to downtown...

If it were between the two, this version is somewhat better--it looks the worst from the "drone view", but the while height fetishists might be upset that the towers are shorter, the visual impression from within the courtyard (and presumably from the street as well) is less bulky and...

Haymarket will “feel” even closer, too, once all the construction is done—the apparent distance tends to diverge from reality the more urbanism encloses a path to a given destination. Good luck getting the DMH police to do anything…

When I say "white people" in this way, I say it as many people in my and younger generations do, as a cultural label, which is to say, "annoying, entitled yuppy culture". Which, while perhaps bound to elicit some triggered responses on a forum like this and therefore ill-advised, is also pretty...

Pragmatic and realistic, but… dare to dream, van, dare to dream.

What should, and could be happening here is to grant air rights to a company and let them renovate the entire site, activate the Hurley, and build something on top of it that isn’t total garbage. IF this is not in the cards, and demolition of part of the complex is going to happen, there should...

We don’t have to get into a larger debate, but maybe you’d like to educate yourself before posting nonsense like this: Lindemann has two DMH longterm residential shelters and three DMH group homes. A large number of people live here already, and that rotunda is their only outdoor space. It is...