Recent content by as02155

This is the problematic part of your position - most people just don't care: if it's more than 6 stories, it might as well be 40 and most people won't bat an eye. They care that there's retail, culture, accommodations, even maybe hotels! Meanwhile, the busybodies that are not "most people", in...

Looks to have a pretty typical level of churn - currently 13 units listed. https://www.prospectunionsquare.com/floor-plans/. And 4 units available in the inclusionary program. https://www.somervillema.gov/departments/programs/inclusionary-housing-program

Honestly, Markey is a nice guy, a actual people-lover. A fairly unusual one in that he's got the maverick/outsider thing going as well as a lot of personal positive buzz just from simpler one-to-one interactions. I suspect that anyone with a similar policy profile is going to have a hard time...

I've also had this experience - they tell me "the senior building" and that's not that tall even - nor is it on Mass Ave. I had someone "correct" me saying that I was thinking of Back Bay. Common people just don't care - like you - they just want to have a fairly easy day-to-day life where they...

Site of some recent residential tower developments: Union Sq, Central Sq., Kendall Sq., Lechmere Sq., Assembly Sq. - the last three having quite a few. The eastern parts of Camber-ville have really born the brunt of residential tower development - it's like there's a societal line that prevents...

I still think it's bonkers that the MassGOP is currently putting forward two millionaire (billionaire?) candidates with mansions on the water as their gubernatorial candidates...

Why does East have to bear the burden of all the development? Why can't West at least take just one god damn measly tower?

We've already had like 1,000 or so. I think housing is probably the wrong economic choice for this location. Housing could go here but I think it has to be much taller for it to work for the economic life of the square.

I think it was clear that the local Nincompoops were going to community-benefits/1,000,000 paper cuts this to death. I see why they were going for the state override and I think this adds evidence that the state housing override needs to be much stronger.

Got a stack of forwarded mail from my old Somerville address, earlier this week. In it was a high gloss mailer for "a community meeting" on "One Union Square" Anyone seen something more about this project?

I thought the Type 9s came with APCs.

Deathly slow/timing out tonight for me.

I wonder if CAF is having trouble with the Trump import restrictions too? As a Spanish-headquartered company, it could seemingly be targeted by the administration for their government's general anti-US stances.

This sounds like a version of the National Lampoon's European Vacation scene going round the gyratory at Lambeth Bridge in London.