Recent content by Justbuildit

Cluster of local neighborhood groups are hosting a meeting to discuss the Gillette redevelopment (good!), using the public space in the CRISPR headquarters on A street (good!). Some of the choice language makes me think this is going to be another challenging slog in Fort Point/Southie where...

Hingham in 15-20 minutes would be insane. Increased frequencies and shorter rides on existing routes is a perfect place to start. Maaaybe you could imagine something wacky like Plymouth or Salem at some point, but taking the existing routes from a very good to exceptional would open up a lot...

Fair criticisms, and similar to many I've seen before both in the formal critic space and online. For me this is meant to be a shock to knock left-orthodoxy thinkers off their stance of "well we just need to vote blue and things will be better". The very clear message to me is that those who...

Nice, this is the "$10 office building" (plus the outstanding ~$77M debt) that Synergy bought last year. At the time the sale price meant the market value of the building was flat between 2012 and 2024 despite changing hands at a massively inflated value before being sold at a loss...

Not sure why they changed the name but it appears to be primarily in service of creating an improved urban freight corridor, supporting movement of trucks to and from the port...

Feels kind of like a clickbait headline. What did the Healey administration do to put wind on the back burner? From my reading they've failed to agree to distribution contracts with the utilities precisely because of the uncertainty out of DC. If IRA incentives disappear and there are new fees...

And hey, as grim as it might sound, the nature of these developments is that they'll easily outlast their first residents and remain a resource for even the younger of us when we get to that stage.

We demand progress! (works to makes prison life better, downsizes the total prison due to decreasing inmate population, invests public money to accomplish these goals) No, not like that! Healey should use this opportunity to left-punch these people. Over-policing is bad and has had some awful...

Yet another example how a reasonably-sized building like this should be by-right, and yet: The site is located within a Two-Family Residential (2F-5000) Zoning Subdistrict in the Allston-Brighton Neighborhood District, Article 51 of the Boston Zoning Code (the “Code”). See Tables 2-1 for...

Is this evidence of a Boston vs Everett difference? Everett is throwing up apartment blocks like crazy, but these plots in a, perhaps, comparably priced area of Boston are crawling. Agree there should be a sea of housing within 10 minutes walk west Beachmont.

And now it's passed into the official budget. Barring something insane, this will become law in the next few weeks. Absolute massive win for 99% of the population of the Commonwealth. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/30/metro/mass-house-senate-lawmakers-budget-healey/ Healey already said...

I just can't believe these people keep putting their god-given names to these quotes. Just totally clueless and it makes them look like complete clowns. I hope this gets approved immediately.

Every biotech IPO could make a few new millionaires. Every year some big law partners cross the threshold as well. Your model seems to focus on the existing pool of rich people and not account for the HBS grad who’s 6 years away from making 7 figures. Attracting talent, being friendly to...

I'm definitely not the first in line to defend Seaport, but the universal bashing the neighborhood gets about being just made of "identical glass boxes" (which isn't even true), to what I believe are the first criticisms of its architecture being too bold is funny. I'd love for the remaining...

But what about the people who really want to make over ~$1.1M per year but never will and hate the idea that somehow they're still losing something because someone might get a free bus pass and that's a sign of weakness and therefore they might leave the state (but really housing is just too...