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This former roundhouse for the railroad - currently salmon falls stoneware - is set to be redeveloped.

14 Green St, Brookline, new-looking building, apparently falling apart per this photo:

Looks good but in a just world alpha management would be fined/sued out of existence and their property expropriated - one of the most famous slumlords around

This project is dead. The building has been sold directly to an office tenant for a huge discount: https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2026/04/29/boston-building-returns-to-offices-after-planned-s.html

Do you think when college students get home from the bar they study?

The fact that side setbacks are technically required in this neighborhood is hilarious... we are cooked!

This is a building that would be hugely better with a single stair

There are so many 4 mile subways that you could build here that would be total game changers.

With enemies like these, who needs friends?

Looks like neighbors have applied for a landmark designation on the existing building which is ca. ~1920. It's going before the commission in a couple weeks

I think that is correct at least in terms of their stated goals, that they do want to move the most people not necessarily cars-only, and view decreasing capacity or keeping capacity the same as a non-starter. However: We generally are allowed as a society to ask for and receive things that are...

https://ariofsevit.com/apb/2026/01/03/bu-bridge-an-edge-case-where-a-bike-ped-bridge-makes-sense/ That is more or less what Ari Ofsevit was proposing but with the use of an at grade intersection. Blue in this case refers to the proposed bike overpass What I don't get is why the community has...

Another aspect is that this neigbhorhood council is not actually recognized by the city but will be soon after these elections. Somerville city law provides for official recognition of these councils and, if they are recognized, requires developers to negotiate directly with them.

Since this is a ground up project, if there is a path on the bridge, it could easily be separated by use of physical barriers similar to that which was used on the north washington street bridge

Part of the confusion is the multiple separate processes. 1) 40B application (what the CD article is referring to) got kicked back this week saying they need to revise based on community feedback 2) Somerville has technically not reviewed the project yet, but is deferring to the DSNC for...