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  1. JumboBuc

    Alexandra Hotel Renovation | 1769 Washington St | Roxbury

    If BU wanted to build out more medical campus student housing (as they should) they could do so on the land they own behind their existing med student residence at 815 Albany.
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    Tufts Development Projects

    ^ That “original” facade of Eaton won’t be affected by this project. Eaton is a bit strange in that the historic front facade with the columns and the marble and the stairs doesn’t face the Academic Quad and is barely ever used (if used at all) in the building’s current configuration. It’s kind...
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    Winthrop Center | 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District

    The crazy thing about the "Great Hall" grade change is that we always knew it was coming. This post is from 6+ years ago:
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    Blue Line extension to Lynn

    Budget and Labor Analyst Salary: $61,580 - $85,000 annually https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/mbta/jobs/3984521/budget-and-labor-analyst Senior Budget & Labor Analyst Salary: $69,440 - $90,000 https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/mbta/jobs/4017496/senior-budget-labor-analyst Pay for...
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    401 Park Drive (née Landmark Center) | Fenway

    It looks like Toast is paying about $15.7 million to buy out of a commitment to 111,294 SF on the 8th floor for 6.5 years plus 22,495 SF on the 5th floor for 5 years. That works out to a $/sf buyout rate of $18.73 per year. There are also provisions in the agreement that if the landlord lands a...
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    🔹 What's Happening With Project X?

    That's the State Police Barracks Modernization: https://www.mass.gov/service-details/massachusetts-state-police-lower-basin-barracks-modernization https://www.boston.gov/sites/default/files/imce-uploads/2018-06/esplanade_presentation.pdf The DCR Park project is further south.
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    Better MBTA Station Names

    Well I’m too young to have been conscious when that happened, but generally, yeah I would have preferred if the changes of Columbia to JFK/UMass and Auditorium to Hynes […] and Atlantic to Aquarium and et cetera had not happened. But they did, so now we have had those names for decades. And btw...
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    Better MBTA Station Names

    Anybody else on here find this entire thread -- I dunno -- kind of offensive? I understand that this is all more of a thought exercise than an actual policy pitch, but the thought of wholesale scrambling around T station names sorta makes my skin crawl. I'm much too small-c conservative to...
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    Better MBTA Station Names

    Just as the ballpark itself was named for the neighborhood and parkway, Fenway station is also named for the neighborhood and parkway; it isn’t named for Fenway Park. The station was originally opened as Fenway Park in the ‘50s, but was renamed in the ‘70s to drop the “Park” for all the reasons...
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    401 Park Drive (née Landmark Center) | Fenway

    I assume Samuels will be happy to switch that space over to a non-theater use. Unlike the new theaters at North Station and in the Seaport, this space wasn’t recently purpose-built to be a movie theater. It’s probably therefore less appealing for another theater chain to take over and relatively...
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    State to take closer look at tolls on I-93

    You can’t just put up new tolls on existing Interstates. FHWA won’t allow it. Plenty of states have tried and failed. There are some limited circumstances where it is allowed (e.g., new tolls on new additional lanes, dedicated tolls for a finite period to fund major rehabilitation of the road...
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    Roslindale Infill and Small Developments

    I was driving east down Belgrade into the square the day before the crash and I remarked to my partner that it was only a matter of time before someone plows straight into the Square Root. That intersection is tricky--the east and westbound lanes of Belgrade merge into one in a tight Y before...
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    Tufts Development Projects

    https://now.tufts.edu/2022/11/14/tufts-plans-new-residence-hall-boston-avenue From the render it looks like it’s going on the parking lots fronting Boston Ave behind Hill / Hillside / Hallowell, which is a no-brainer site for more housing. A win all around. A few more thoughts: 398 beds is...
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    MBTA Buses & Infrastructure

    4 stops (St Botolph/Huntington, Clearway/Christian Science, Newbury/Boylston, Beacon/Marlborough) between Mass Ave and the River (0.8 miles, or about 4,200 feet) seems very reasonable to me. That’s one stop about every 1,000 feet, not every 100. Each stop serves an important area...
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    General MBTA Topics (Multi Modal, Budget, MassDOT)

    Pretty much all employers have policies stating that what employees do on their own in their own time (online or not) is their own business, but employees should at no time represent themselves as representative of their employer in any way without express consent of the employer. Also pretty...
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    Fenway Infill and Small Developments

    It always seemed like such a no-brainer to me for the church to redevelop some of their property. They’re sitting on a lot of unused land in back—which is basically an overgrown vacant lot—and the church building itself clearly needs some (likely expensive) TLC. Ideally development back there...
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    1400 Boylston Street | Star Market & Gulf | Fenway

    Double-height windows + hodge-podge facade materials + bargain basement mechanical screens = another Elkus Manfredi Special. They even threw in the balconies overflowing with lush vegetation that will surely last until Round 1 of the BCDC "What we heard" cuts. I also wish they'd stick to "the...
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    Everett Waterfront Redevelopment | 52 Beacham Street | Everett

    https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/06/02/business/big-deal-everett-developer-set-buy-95-acre-tank-farm-site-with-plans-build-new-there/
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    Green Line Extension to Medford & Union Sq

    Neither of these are GLX related
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    Kenmore Square North (WHOOP) | 533-541 Commonwealth Ave | Fenway

    Such a simple massing to do right, and they still did it so so wrong. How hard is it to just put up some effing bricks?

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