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    Mission Hill Parcel 25 | Tremont St @ Roxbury Crossing

    The only smart way to do 60-100% affordable imho is to put in lots of 100-120% AMI which is the sort of thing that should pencil in normal conditions for non-trendy n'hoods (like this area).
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    The Dorsey (Née The Smith) | 575 Albany | South End

    The real question is when can the other Harrison-Albany blocks get such treatment. Lots of vacant lots across Deadham...
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    South End Infill and Small Developments

    the city refused to consider doing this in the name of starting faster. meanwhile, it was already supposed to be finished and it has yet to start and the city has a budget crunch.
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    Mission Hill Parcel 25 | Tremont St @ Roxbury Crossing

    Perfect example of the perils of "affordable only" --- it's taken ~15 years to build this not very large project, it's not even 6 stories next to the T most places, there's barely any retail, and it looks cheap. Market rate + density bonus for affordable could have given us far more homes far...
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    South End Infill and Small Developments

    There were workers in 10 Springfield St earlier this week
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    Dorchester Infill and Small Developments

    Wow the new version looks so much cheaper and worse
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    Reserved Channel Development | 300 West First Street | South Boston

    It's honestly pretty crazy, rents were high enough for a massive overbuild of both pre-2022 or so. It's an honestly terrible location for jobs (no transit), but somehow the local nimbys are assuaged by promises of jobs that bring traffic not residents who would walk to work, so you have a cycle...
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    Reserved Channel Development | 300 West First Street | South Boston

    So with the lab market crash, have they realized this needs to be ~all resi + the grocery?
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    Nubian Sq. Parcel P-3 (nee Tremont Crossing) | Roxbury

    The City totally whiffed here and made the scheme too baroque to succeed. By the time it was put out to bid again last cycle, it would easily have pencilled as market rate alone --- just run an auction for the site then and see who offers the best benefits! But instead, it had to be lab to...
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    The New Retail Thread

    Copley Place will be a mess until they turn it into a modern arcade like the Pru. The only stores that survive are super luxe because it's inimical to foot traffic. It requires major renovations and a focus on pedestrian flows to make it nice and walkable.
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    Boston Water and Sewer Commission development | 923-925 Harrison ave| Roxbury

    Idiotic proposals, held together by Rube Goldberg machine levels of subsidy combination are bound to fail. This is a no brainer at market rate that could help fix the city budget. But they're too ideological and hidebound to accept that.
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    Drexel Village | 175 Ruggles Street | Roxbury

    The failure of the city to allow market rate in lower roxbury continues to leave us with far too many vacant lots.
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    Hood Business Park | 480-570 Rutherford Avenue | Charlestown

    110 more + a hotel going right behind it. It looks like for financing reasons they're doing their IDP units on the grocery first.
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    Cambridge Crossing (NorthPoint) | East Cambridge/Charlestown | Cambridge/Boston

    Unfortunately the triangle where the station was will be an uninteresting park surrounded by traffic fumes + noise. It will not invite people into Cambridge Crossing. Another CRA special: not letting people develop interesting lots and instead putting in parkland that will not get used.
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    South End Infill and Small Developments

    I live around the corner and that's what our neighborhood association was told. It hasn't been that long either.
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