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The developer of the supertall 9 Dekalb, aka the Dime Savings Bank Tower in downtown Brooklyn, has defaulted on a loan and the tower has been scheduled for a foreclosure auction on June 10th. https://therealdeal.com/new-york/2024/03/27/michael-stern-defaults-on-brooklyns-9-dekalb-ave/

PennDOT just released a study for several new passenger rail lines in the Lehigh Valley. https://lvpc.org/passenger-rail

Yet another Cool New Thing ™️ that is really just a casino development proposal.

They finally released renderings for this one and Holy hell it is even more hideous than I thought it would be. https://newyorkyimby.com/2024/03/renderings-revealed-for-the-torch-at-740-eighth-avenue-in-midtown-manhattan.html

They keep presenting Cool New Things ™️ all over the city, but once you read far enough down you realize it's just another casino development proposal. https://www.dezeen.com/2024/02/12/big-freedom-plaza-development-east-river-manhattan/

New Port Authority renderings just dropped. 8 years of construction in two 4 year chunks. Completed by 2032. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/01/nyregion/port-authority-bus-terminal-replacement.html

just heard news that the Bank of New Hampshire is has started construction on a new building in Laconia. They will build this, move their workers over, then tear down the current building. I was curious so looked up the planning board documents from earlier in the year. While the plot of land is...

They just upped the height with a spire to 1907'. This is all just a marketing ploy right? How can a city with a total of two streetcar lines support a building this size? They will have to raize several acres around it for parking because the transist system is not built for this kind of...

I went to a coffee shop in Kelley Square and, say what you will about the economics of the stadium in and of itself, but this area has completely transformed from when I would stumble around the dive bars over here. This building has created a whole new scale for the neighborhood and when it...

Switch out that ground floor amenity space to retail and plop this on every parking lot on Shrewsbury street.

You don't need to read the article, just the headline. The newest pencil tower will only have 26 apartments in it. The 6 story walk up across the street from my place has more apartments than this...

Since they announced this I thought the timber, while cool, is an odd choice for materiality. Everything is steel and concrete on the rest of the high line, why change it for this singular pathway. Even the new approach is steel.

The last thing Boston needs is one of the pencil towers from NYC. They are just places for rich people to park their money and do absolutly nothing for the city.

One of the first concrete steps towards the Second Ave. Subway phase 2 just commenced. https://www.crainsnewyork.com/commercial-real-estate/mta-seize-nine-east-harlem-sites-second-avenue-subway-extension

The feds say phase 2 of the second avenue subway will now cost 7.7 billion dollars. Just keeps going up. https://gothamist.com/news/cost-of-second-ave-subway-extension-to-east-harlem-balloons-to-77b