Recent content by curcuas

There was an easy way to resubmit the waterfront plan, but she refrained from doing so, with some nice nimby language.

It's not the BPDA, it's the mayor that destroyed it with a huge assist by nimby lawsuits from the CLF.

The problem is the whole thing requires several different subsidies to work. It was a mess the second they made it affordable only.

It fits the slow extension of the high spine along Huntington...

Do they need another lease for the resi buildings? Is this the DOT approval for everything?

The whole thing is a massive own goal by the city, which is kneecapping a developer who wants to add to downtown. Just like the half assed plan downtown zoning, the inaction here is only contributing to the mess. This is one part of the City where high density should be very much by right.

Vertex is absolutely crushing it. They may need more space given the number of bfd drugs they'll soon have.

The city owned parcels where they have X units of heavily subsidized housing cross-subsidized by life science labs which are also paying for a parking garage and many other amenities...

It's going to be darkly funny when the market rate infill all gets built way before the high concept, baroque subsidized buildings along the square proper (on city owned land) get developed. Will be very similar to the SWC in that way.

Good catch. Didn't realize there was a suit beyond "working the refs" aka the city dev authorities with their nonsense.

Salim Furth (Housing scholar @ Mercatus) has pointed out that 44% of Milton voting for more housing in a plan not particularly close to transit is actually a remarkable sign of popularity of upzoning elsewhere. Milton, arguably is one of the least likely places to vote for density, vs say a...

Remember, this building was approved then had approvals yanked because the city tree warden complained. Totally bizarre story. The developer, MPDC, has built great urban spaces when they get the opportunity (see the new Madison Park n'hood and Whittier Choice nearby).

The three year gap was due to the city jerking them around over some neighborhood land title issues conflating with hyperlocal NIMBYism.

If this is like Lightview, the broken up massing might actually work well and give the real appearance of multiple towers clustered together.

YEEHAW