Recent content by Randomgear

This site is now part of the 18-22 Arboretum Rd Project. Not sure of what the status of the new project is, the design team received a bit of a shellacking by the BDPA and the BCDC if I recall correctly from reading the PNF public comments.

So your official timeline remains the same, but your official costs have now doubled to a full billion. Glad to see this level of effort put into factual BS.

Really, amazing design and work; especially loving the black manganese? brick at the jambs of the less inset windows, just a beatifully slick visual trick!

So a corridor crossings project was originally being constructed in 2015. After the Boston Public Works rebuilt the crossing at Gordon St (just south of the Green St MBTA Station) several cyclists, including myself, and a few members of the PMAC (Park Management Advisory Committee) had an...

Well, ever since the T announced that the Orange Line derailed at Wellington because the newer cars are just far too heavy, I've lost all faith in what the MBTA says. They say it's safe to ride; well I'm just glad I'm not riding it these days.

Nope, not an unfortunate series of events, but the result of disfunction and systematic neglect. MassDOT took a week plus, to figure out that it had responsibility for the stair that collapsed and they still haven't said whether it will ever be repaired. The redline took a bite out of a...

For Cafes, Green T on Walter St in Rozzie and The Square Root Cafe in Rozzie Square on Corinth St- I think that both buy their pastries from elsewhere but are fine coffee , breakfast and sandwich shops. The Square Root also has live entertainment occasionally outdoors and sometimes indoors on...

West of Washington St is the Bellevue Hill Reservation, owned by the Commonwealth, given the water tank at the top probably the MRWA. East of Washington between Enneking Parkway and north to the Domino's Pizza/Comcast building is owned by DCR. West of Enneking Parkway the wooded land adjacent...

Bancars, thanks for the update, It's good to see some progress starting back up on Wallpaper City (balcony wood paneling), but rather distressing to see the two street trees in such sorry state and I thought the new sidewalk/bus stop pavement extension was bad enough without additional planters...

You know things are truly lost when the architect uses the Alucobond to look like precast concrete. Hard to believe that it looks even worse than that godawful perfectly uniform smooth brick just around the corner.

From the Bulletin:

The Wallpaper City facade is extraordinarily poorly built. The waterproofing and flashing on the 1st floor is entirely missing: no tape or sealant at the seams and nail holes on the zipwall sheathing, no flexible flashing around the windows, the stone veneer is grouted to cement board nailed to...

I'm not a fan of what MassDOT is proposing. This is right out of the MDC/DCR playbook: Monsignor Casey Arborway Overpass getting reduced from 3 to 2 lanes in each direction and having sidewalks added in 1990. 15 or so years later, DCR was spending millions every summer working on fixing...

The Zoning Board unanimously approved the project Wednesday morning.

The only reason that there are two spans is to allow the City to turn one into a vehicle travel lane. I'm still going in support of something similar, perhaps simplified to cut costs, to the Fennick McCreddie design proposal here...