Recent content by stellarfun

Lore was built on filled land on what historically were tidal flats. These days, if the site was still tidal flats, one could not fill the flats under federal law. (One can see the marsh in the next to last photo.) The previous user of the site was a road and infrastructure construction...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/23/metro/sagamore-bridge-new-renderings-cape-cod-megaproject/ There are other images in the Globe article, but they are not static images.

Noting that this is an EMS station, and not a fire station, I Googled to see whether a new fire station was in the works. One is. At 7 Channel St., plans filed in April. To be built at no cost to the city. City owns the land apparently. I assume this will be a two bay station...

I believe the white planes belong to airlines other than JetBlue. Presumably, the widebodies are international carriers, Aer Lingus, TAP, and Etihad who currently use Terminal C. When finished, the size of the terminal will have increased from 220,000 square feet to 300,000 square feet. The...

JetBlue's $1 billion rebuild of terminal receives preliminary approval from Massport. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/lifestyle/logan-terminal-c-billion-dollar-makeover/

Not sure where to put this, but floating wetland habitats are being installed in Fort Point Channel. Image courtesy of the Globe. [https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/07/metro/wetlands-boston-harbor-ecology/?s_campaign=breakingnews:newsletter[/URL] ]

Sybil has nothing to do with any Revolutionary War events in Massachusetts. Extensive article in Wiki questions whether any such ride occurred; she was denied a pension because she could offer no proof that she was ever married to her 'husband', a veteran of the Revolutionary War. Pretty...

The architect for the new high school is Perkins & Will. Voluminous documents can be found here, https://sites.google.com/salemk12.org/shs-building-committee/documents-information?authuser=0 At least one document, the Preliminary Design program, was too large to view on-line, and required...

May I suggest that complaints be addressed to this gentleman: https://www.tishmanspeyer.com/people/bruce-e-phillips

The Commonwealth selected the development team, as this is state-owned land which will be sold on project completion to the two developers. Avalon gets to do all new construction. Winn will do adaptive re-use of existing buildings, and presumably receive historic preservation tax credits...

Two large apartment projects are slated for Salem State University's South Campus. The university will consolidate its programs and activities into the North Campus. The South Campus location was originally a Catholic girls boarding school, Ste. Chretienne Academy. The school closed in 1971...

https://www.nbcboston.com/boston-business-journal/amazon-moves-forward-with-delayed-second-seaport-office/3940427/?noamp=mobile Original source is BBJ.

Gillette going back to Southie for its HQ building. Buying back a parcel it sold a few years ago. Cost about $1 billion. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/10/business/gillette-headquarters-proctor-gamble-south-boston/?s_campaign=breakingnews:newsletter

United is leasing Airbus 321neos to replace the 757s. These are being called 'coastliners', for transcontinental service. See: ,https://simpleflying.com/united-airlines-upscale-transcon-flights-premium-coastliner-airbus-a321neos/ The 100 787s are primarily, if not exclusively for...

Globe reporting this afternoon that the Dugout, at 722 Comm Ave. has permanently closed. Liquor license just sold to a restaurant in the Seaport. Dugout opened in 1934. Prohibition ended December, 1933. I doubt there are any aB members who remember either.