Recent content by TheBostonian

Lots of potential for this area to become well-connected to public transportation if you consider potential for an infill commuter rail station, footbridge to Assembly on the Orange Line, and perhaps even extending the Silver Line beyond Chelsea.

I agree UMB leadership should be more responsive, especially to the students living in the dorms. But I also hope that any building issues, like the HVAC and elevators, are quirks that the builders are responsible for correcting. My office moved into a newly renovated building months ago and...

Say hello to Boston's new skyline

You guys are awesome

You guys are making me want to stop reading ArchBoston.

From the BI link: "For those wondering what their city may look like should Amazon choose it, the company's current home in Seattle is a cautionary tale. Locals point to snarled traffic, soaring housing prices, never-ending construction, and accelerated gentrification." Boston is ready for...

This pro-development forummer who rarely chimes in feels compelled to say that it would be tragic to lose the Superman Building. I'm not very familiar with the local development climate in Providence. This should be a tipping point that makes reasonable protection of iconic buildings mainstream...

The new parking garage?

Re: New UMass Boston student housing project Thank you for posting these. I'm very interested in seeing the construction, but I just about never get down there.

Re: New UMass Boston student housing project UMB can be a dreary place. My advice as an alum is that it is essential to be social with classmates and instructors. That might come naturally at a residential campus, but it takes effort at a commuter school. I think the new dorms have the...

Re: New UMass Boston student housing project There are graduate students and undergraduate transfer students who will only attend UMB for a year or two who will know nothing but this torn up campus. And the demolition of the garage substructure might be even more of a mess than the massive...

Re: New UMass Boston student housing project My understanding is that utilities for the original campus megastructure are contained within the parking garage that is beneath and between the original buildings. Before the school demolishes the garage between buildings and renovates it under the...

Nice. Let's install a 1:1 scale model of this in the Back Bay.

Re: General Electric HQ | 244-284 A Street | Fort Point Ditto. What would we have called that kind of space before that term?