Recent content by Stlin

I mean, this is a narrower segment of the Charles to begin with, and it doesn't look too dissimilar from this street view? Its certainly idealistic, but I can see that pavilion being close enough for their purposes.

https://www.boston.gov/news/mayor-michelle-wu-announces-launch-late-night-food-truck-program Bumping the thread for a good idea, although I'm slightly concerned about the turnaround time - 4 days from announcement to application deadline, 6 to the lottery itself feels ... Suboptimal, but...

That thing is almost certainly a generator from a 1890s power plant, but I can't tell you where you could find one outdoors and seemingly disconnected in 1960s Boston. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3AMechanicville_Hydroelectric_Plant.jpg

This is less important for something like a traditional colo or the hyperscalers these days - those do just fine in places like Lowell or the inner belt as edge centers. It was admittedly much more important to be close when bandwidth was at a premium, but for this particular site it's a carrier...

Admittedly I work less on the telco and infrastructure side and more on the data side of the data center space, but New England generally isn't prime territory for data centers, so the lift in getting a new one approved is... Non-trivial. The 4 major factors people are looking for are land...

Edward Durell Stone was not necessarily the most creative architect when it came to high rises... The "look" of the ERC seems to have largely been sized down to create the Dubois Library at UMass, and sized up for the Aon Center in Chicago.

As someone with a professional cert in data center and telco design - This absolutely is a building designed for it, and no you cannot build it smaller. Everything about a data center is managing heat - servers can only be so close together because of the heat they generate, so you have spaced...

I will opine that a significant and major reason it looks so much greyer is the function of the raised grove's decking surrounding the base of the trees - previously, those existing mature trees were surrounded by grass / greenery at their bases. Unfortunately, apparently heavy usage compacted...

My understanding is that there is very limited volumes of R99/R100 biodiesel on the East Coast and no major refineries, most of that capacity being in CA. It's apparently usually imported or barged in from the Gulf, but I believe there's a small refinery in the Portland ME region. If that's...

Thats going to be interesting to watch, but if it's being sponsored by Meet Boston I'm really rather curious about its limits - I'm not actually sure there's enough in Metro Boston to fill a Michelin Guide. Is it going to be limited to that region? Notably, the Greater Boston Regional Tourism...

One thing I'd personally like to have seen is what it would take to convert the entire NEC to 60hz 25kv to eliminate or at least minimize the need for all of that 3 frequency switchgear. A bunch of it is approaching it's centenary soon to begin with. For the moment ignoring the MTA 750V 3rd...

I thought I'd start a thread for Littleton, since it's broken ground on a major development. Lupoli Corp, better known for Sals Pizza and the Riverside Redevelopment in Lawrence, broke ground yesterday on a 2.3 million sqft Redevelopment of the Littleton IBM/HP/DEC office complex, which will...

Underground parking was part of community input - it was the primary concern of most of the abutters, other than structural integrity of the Cedar St retaining wall. Providing it got them unanimous abutter support at meetings which got it through approvals quickly, and there's a MOU somewhere...

Specifically, the GL standards call for 11' per track minimum spacing on center, 12' preferred net of catenary poles and fencing. Much of GLX was built to 11'6", so it's probably safe to say 24' inclusive of poles. Double Commuter Rail track is specified at 13' on center, 8'6" min (12'...

Wait, I'm actually completely lost as to where you're referring to. Main St in Charlestown doesn't come anywhere close to meeting MVP, which doesn't even enter Somerville, let alone Charlestown. Mystic Ave sure, but the entire Sullivan Sq circle is going away with the Rutherford rebuild. Are you...