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    Boston University - Warren Towers Renovation | 700 Commonwealth Avenue | Fenway

    Wouldn't hate it - it'd fit in with the Jenga Tower and Jeanne Gang's tower if it ever gets built, and it might justify the 90k cost to go to BU now..
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    Key Bridge Collapses in Baltimore

    There typically are protections for newer bridges - I've read this particular bridge in this particular area did not meet the criteria for a retrofit (hindsight is 20/20). To your other point: https://x.com/MattDursh/status/1772605870599238112?s=20
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    Hurley Building Redevelopment | 19 Staniford St | West End

    The website you found them on notes their client was Quaker Lane Capital, which was one of the respondents to the original RFP that went out. As noted above, Quaker Lane was not the winning proposal. Leggat McCall was, which has the shorter larger buildings by NBBJ proposed. It's likely Stoss...
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    Brookline Infill and Small Developments

    Opening date set for March 27! 14k SF $14M 15 years of planning 10 years of fundraising
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    Lyrik Back Bay | 1001 Boylston Street (Parcel 12) | Back Bay

    1001 Boylston is a much better name than Lyrik, in my opinion. I hope this marketing-led naming fad ends soon.
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    Fairmount Line Upgrade

    I'm reading that Keolis proposed this through the MBTA Innovation Program?? Interesting...
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    General Boston Discussion

    This all assumes that schools can affordably build dorms. I'm not sure you can make the numbers work on a new-build bare-bones dorm building that could charge a rate comparable to off-campus housing, at least with today's construction costs. Back to the original story, I'm a recent graduate...
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    CambridgeSide Galleria Reno/Redev | First Street | East Cambridge

    Not to get this off track, but personally, this is the level of restoration/rework and timeline I would've appreciated at Copley.
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    100 Chestnut Street | Inner Belt | Somerville

    The tenant fitout on this project seems intense. I was taking the Green Line home last Friday ~12 midnight and there were a few laborers on one of the floors...
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    South Station Tower | South Station Air Rights | Downtown

    There must be some pretty cold and strong gusts coming into the building too... those gusts in "open" high rises are no joke...
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    Whats left to build on?

    They are free for the first 24 hours, then behind a paywall. It is definitely corporate ownership. While you can pull up Lyndell's as an example, I think it's more the exception rather than the norm. For the Sligo project, I can't imagine the executives in the UK for Scape really caring if they...
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    Suffolk Downs Redevelopment | East Boston/Revere

    Or it looked better to present in Revit with a few pops of color...
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    General MBTA Topics (Multi Modal, Budget, MassDOT)

    To get a report with suggestions by the end of 2024 sounds like a whole lot of nothing will come of this... (Unless when they're developing the report they realize there should be more urgency here...)
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    General MBTA Topics (Multi Modal, Budget, MassDOT)

    The T's response on the slower than expected green line is essentially that it's old and will likely always be slow, but now it's safe. Nothing wrong with the safe part, but they were advertising 9 minutes of saved trip time with the removal of these slow zones, and they've been very public in...
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    General MBTA Topics (Multi Modal, Budget, MassDOT)

    I'm thinking it's dispatching/signals. The amount of times and length of time seemingly sitting still for no reason has been much more noticeable recently. But as I said upthread, I have nothing to back this up except for anecdotal experience... Maybe our operator can give some insight?

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