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It's being talked about here because this is a forum that discusses architecture and new construction in Boston. The other 99% of people that happen upon it and its dubious legibility won't give it a second thought.

Preposterous statement. This section of Comm Ave is almost exclusively 4-5 story walkups. And a useless 10 foot lawn would benefit no one here.

I'm sure such a change would be unpopular with some, but if the Parking Clerk and BPDA maintained a list of parking permit ineligible developments, I feel like that could go a decently long way to invalidating a lot of NIMBY opposition to new developments.

We're going from building a 21st century, residential take on the Lipstick Building to building StuVi 7. (I'll still take, but disappointing.)

I know this proposal had an uninspiring street-level, but this would've been one of the most exciting towers built in the US in the last couple decades.

This is giving me flashbacks to Parcel 12/1001 Boylston, where the colors in the original renders quietly disappeared as time went on. I fear this is going to end up a whole lot more landscraper-y if it's a single color.

*Extremely anecdotal* I've been taking the 7 train into the city some weekday mornings recently. I keep being struck by how my train car will be moderately busy between Queens and Times Square, and then nearly empty between Times Square and Hudson Yards. There have been times where I've been...

Shocked we're still doing this in 2023. I thought this had peaked pre-covid.

What bothers me most with this proposal is entirely out of their control: that stupid skinny triangular lot fronting Kilmarnock Street, being used for about a dozen parking spaces. The site conditions make a good urban street wall impossible.

Maybe not exactly the right environment for it, but I feel like a multi-story video screen on the blank wall facing the Mass Ave and Newbury intersection could potentially be cool.

Old-ish buildings, now evoking older styles. The construction technique is very interesting to me. Looks great today, wonder how it holds up.

Appears to be a fire at Tuft Medical Center

To go a bit deeper still, what you'd likely be looking for is an API that implements the GTFS Realtime standard. This is an industry standard format developed by Google and used by transit agencies for publishing data about trip updates, service alerts, and vehicle positions. There is also a...

When someone defaces their license plate and is able to continuously get away with it, I personally believe they're also more likely to engage in other reckless behavior on the road. Hopefully more enforcement, greater deterrent of other dangerous behavior. This is especially the case here in...

Watertown gets its own mini Cambridge Crossing ❤ Seems positive that the second parking garage has been moved north of the bike lane and is no longer fronting Arsenal St. Still seems like a big missed opportunity that this development doesn't include housing.