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    Somerville Infill and Small Developments

    494 Medford St. This sat idle for a while but it looks like there's been more movement since last time I walked by. The adjacent former K-2 liquor store appears to becoming... wait for it... a dispensary. At least it's getting a nicer paint job. 35 Richardson St., new build, 4 units on an...
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    Grounding the McGrath

    Oh, this actually makes sense. It took me a while to understand what you were describing, but I think I understand after looking at old mapjunction images. Thanks!
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    Grounding the McGrath

    This is tangential to the thread, but I couldn't find a better place to ask something I've long wondered: why does the elevated northbound side briefly return to grade for a signalized intersection at Somerville Av/Poplar St, while the southbound side remains elevated entirely? Was is always...
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    Mixed Use (40B Fmr Star Market) | 299 Broadway | Winter Hill | Somerville

    Yikes. Chill out man, that's why I said it was a genuine question, I was merely curious for clarification on what you meant in your original assertion (and by "nefarious," I meant not about the product being sold, but rather on maybe bad blood with neighbors or something like that, I'm not...
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    Mixed Use (40B Fmr Star Market) | 299 Broadway | Winter Hill | Somerville

    Are you saying that because it's a liquor store? Or is there something more nefarious with their business vis-a-vis the new development? Genuine question, I'm not sure about the history here. I had just assumed they owned their property, which is why the project was to be built around them...
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    Biking in Boston

    Memorial Drive has been reduced to one lane westbound from just before Amesbury St. to the BU bridge. Is this related to changes in cycling infrastructure and/or the recent death? Cause I didn't see any changes on the EB side, where the incident occurred. Maybe it's unrelated and/or...
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    Fenway Center (One Kenmore) | Turnpike Parcel 7, Beacon Street | Fenway

    Random question (re: pic #10): why does Lansdowne, a two-track station, have them labelled Track 5 and Track 7?
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    Lyrik Back Bay | 1001 Boylston Street (Parcel 12) | Back Bay

    Fair enough. From what I remember from my visit here last week, I saw those other tenants as well, but just assumed based on their locations that they wouldn't get to share that view. I could be totally wrong though, and most definitely spoke out of my ass. That being said, now I really do...
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    Lyrik Back Bay | 1001 Boylston Street (Parcel 12) | Back Bay

    Man, seeing this view, I would love pretty much anything else to occupy this space other than a frickin car dealership. A coffee shop, a restaurant, a cocktail lounge. Hell, a dentist office visit would be bearable while watching traffic drone on below.
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    Lyrik Back Bay | 1001 Boylston Street (Parcel 12) | Back Bay

    Had the pleasure of swinging by here yesterday. It gave me kind of a Bow Market vibe, although perhaps a bit more corporate, and less compartmentalized. It was hard to envision how much of the public space/seating areas will be reserved for patrons of the various tenants (restaurants/etc.).
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    Lyrik Back Bay | 1001 Boylston Street (Parcel 12) | Back Bay

    I seem to remember they had lighting similar to this lining the Vassar St bike lanes in Cambridge, like almost 20 years ago. I don't think they lasted long. But i remember them looking cool and futuristic. I am a little nervous about that bike lane though, I know there's a lot of fencing...
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    Idyl Fenway | 60 Kilmarnock St | Fenway

    Wow. I haven't been following this one in a while, it's massive! It's amazing how easy it is to overlook the size of some of these parcels when they're one-story buildings. I used to walk by this garage on Queensbury all the time, but never really appreciated the scale of the lot, and seeing...
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    View Boston (Observatory) | Prudential Tower | Back Bay

    I remember seeing a video of the elevator in (I think) the new WTC tower in NY, which played a similar 3-d movie, but which started in like 1600 and moved forward in time as the elevator rose, so you could see new buildings pop up as the city evolved (and admittedly got a little eerie when the...
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    River Street Redesign | Cambridge

    Looks great. Although that looks like a really rough right turn for buses from Green onto River street.
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    Seaport Neighborhood - Infill and Discussion

    Why not Government Center? I feel like there was something similar to snowport (albeit much smaller) about 6/7 years ago. Admittedly, I haven't been down to GC plaza in a while, so maybe it's changed, but that always seemed like a good location.

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