Recent content by Smuttynose

Milton has a Planning Board that leans into the batshit crazy category. Town Meeting voters are more levelheaded than the Planning Board.

Not a small development, but the Artemas development is looking close to opening. The building includes 396 units and is located off the bike path next to Night Shift Brewing. These photos are from last week —

Looks great! I love the treatment at the top of the building and how it overhangs along the rail lines. Hopefully it's not VE'd. I'm surprised these aren't swanky condos. I keep hearing about the bad office market and how the city needs to adjust to a new world with less reliance on office.

It’s a bit of a pet peeve of mine when a CR station is named after a municipality when it is located miles away from the Downtown/Town Center. I think people should have a reasonable expectation they can easily get to the place the station is named after from the station itself. This is the case...

This project looks better than the renders - and the construction time relative to Commonwealth Pier up the street - is very impressive. Glad to see it wasn't VE'd to death.

A few Memorial Day shots from the Esplanade/Longfellow —

5-26-2025

A pro-housing candidate won a seat on the Brookline Select Board which seems like a bit of progress. He was the only candidate to vote in favor of allowing mixed-use buildings up to 4 stories on Harvard Street back in 2023. That proposal wound up being pretty non-controversial - passed by 84% -...

That little tiny three-decked wedged in between this and the Symphony towers looks a little out-of-place now.

I'm generally a fan of public transit/bike-ped investments over highway ones, but there a couple highway interchanges that are congested almost 100% of the time and accident prone and deserve investment. Chief among them is the I-93 and I-95/Rt.128 interchange in Woburn of which the state has...

A few shots from around the Downtown/Millyard area. The millyard is compact and seems reasonably undisturbed. Also very walkable to Downtown and the train station. Some of the mill have been refurbished, but potential for a lot more renovations —

Lupoli’s Bid To Transform Boston Suburb Involves an Athletic Field Atop a Parking Garage https://www.costar.com/article/2107185736/lupolis-bid-to-transform-boston-suburb-involves-an-athletic-field-atop-a-parking-garage

If you haven’t been to Lawrence in a while there is now a giant football field located on top of a parking garage, bookended by a new commercial building right up against some giant mills in the south millyard courtesy of Sal Lupoli who owns and has redeveloped most of the real estate in the...

If you’re that butthurt about seeing buildings from a park, there’s a lot of parks & reservations in the metro area where you won’t have to see them. This is the middle of JP, I think buildings in close context to a park is appropriate. 920 Centre Street is a 3-acre parcel - huge by urban...