Recent content by stefal

Hm, I guess their ask for $500K per affordable unit from the Infrastructure Bill didn't go through... Did Peebles originally win this based on including 100% affordable housing? I can't seem to find the original proposals. The design looks nice - It's intriguing there's no sign of the Pike...

This is my thinking - this might be the right size for hockey-specific events. Agganis and the Tsongas Center typically weren't filling up on game days a few years ago. And the basketball court having more seats is a symptom of the court size, likely not attendance demand.

I'm torn.. It'd be a really cool beer hall.

I know this has likely been explained before, but how does this work with an Amtrak ticket? Does it accept their code as well?

Would love to get a thread started on this once there are details. You'd figure with a new building project starting in 3 months there'd be some detail, apart from a start date. I walked by the site this weekend and looks like the contractor's pretty much done with early utility work. There's a...

The apple-store massing entrance is more defined now as well: Doesn't rank highly in my book to be honest.

That doesn't seem terrible - It's 3 3-bedroom units on top of retail, essentially a triple-decker with a perhaps ~5-10% larger footprint/floor area, with retail on the base. The design and materials though...

I have to ask why we are considering building out a few thousand to hundred-thousand units in Devens MA when we have 27 gateway cities pretty nicely balanced across the state begging for re-investments, jobs, housing, and connectivity... I'd be jumping up and down if we announced 25K new housing...

Millenium/Winthrop Sq in Boston is probably throwing a fit - that was one of their big selling points. Regardless, it's gotta be hard to meet passive housing standards with such large amounts of glass. From afar, looks like it was inspired by 432 Park Ave. Up close, it has some interesting...

The Volts podcast is great, this episode from Friday covers MA DPU's direction to shift away from gas: The Massachusetts utility regulator trying to orchestrate a shift away from gas I plan on listening to it this week, but I also listened to this podcast on Thermal Energy Networks from a while...

You're welcome to do so.

Just guessing, and this is an outsider's perspective with no knowledge of the inner workings of this deal: Mark Development doesn't have a huge amount of ground-up development experience as a firm - it's probably looking a little risky for investors. They've attempted a really great looking...

Signed to be enforced in an EO by none other than DT. The further threats over bike lanes and criminal migrants is so tired. For claiming to be focused on the real issues, here we have the POTUS talking about lanes for bicycles in a city where no average resident has a car (22% ownership in...

The Paul Rudolph MET Exhibit was great. It's getting close to the end of the exhibit, so now's your last chance to go. I hope we get to see something similar closer/in Boston some time.

Someone might get mad at me for not attributing an older firm that is more true to this statement, but DS+R are THE OG Auditorium Stairs Architect of this recent wave. This is their biggest, almost comical offender from 2010-2016 (I don't hate it)...