Recent content by Bruins11363

I don't disagree that this land could be best served in another capacity. But there are SO many hurdles to move it at this point. I could be wrong, but in addition to all of the points made above, I heard there is fiber that terminates here connected to Europe. I think a more extreme example...

I think you don't have a full grasp on how real estate and development works. See if you can figure out how to move the pre-2000 data center to a better location in a way that pencils for any investor...

$515/month for parking can get you some pretty nice grass

The appropriate response would have been to say: "wow, thanks for the explanation. I guess I was wrong". But it's pretty hard to do that these days I get it

Union labor saved the big dig?!?

Spot on. It really boils down to simple supply and demand in my opinion. Investors to developers are only interested in making their financial returns and will look to wherever they can achieve this - in or out of Boston. Since you can't really control macroeconomic impacts like interest rates...

Is that a slurry station in the old parking lot area? Is there another building going up next to this one?

I didn't get a picture but it looked like some sort of reflective window film was being applied to all of the floors. Looks pretty sleek honestly and matches the black paneling at the arches

I don't think those are prefab brick panels...

Does anybody know why this one isn't getting clad yet?

Also the hub on casueway was designed to be able to sit with just the podium built and office tower afterwards. There was actually a lag that wasn't super noticeable but the anchor lease got executed with Verizon so BXP resumed and kept going vertical.

I wish they had found a way to bring spandrel glass down to the very bottom instead of metal panel. I feel like that transition will be way more noticeable than the renderings showed.

This might be my favorite apartment complexes built in the last 5-10 years, especially because of its location/context in existing neighborhood.

Nobody loves the CVS at the Brookliner as much as this guy

I think that was very well put and extremely accurate