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It will be fascinating to see whether this turns into a 30-year/never-to-be-realized vision now that the Federal Reserve has turned off the biotech funny money spigot.

I would argue it is, only if you want to future-proof things. 1) Sullivan Square's parking lots are going to be redeveloped sooner rather than later, and once it's done that will make it harder (logistically, bureaucratically, legally when it comes to getting the ground-lessors on board) to...

It should absolutely be on the T's medium-term plan given all the development attention the area's getting -- TBH at the rate the I-90 realignment is going, it's more likely going to be the next big growth center, not the West Station area -- and eyeballing it from the Washington Street...

And I thought that scaffolding in the middle of the two foreground buildings was just an architect getting fancy!

Shades of Dubai, for sure. Hilarious how people in that render are strolling in the stroad. That this new Egyptian capitol is so car-centric certainly says something about the car's "true" purpose, or at least its power and appeal, in the 21st century.

How dystopian. Clearly a way to get the government and the wealthy out of Cairo and prevent any more revolutions.

I am fully pro- any downtown tower that looks like it caused its structural engineers to hatch murder plots against its architects.

Yeah, the reason it's got a funny pinched base like that is because the Red Line runs underneath a corner of the tower, and the T wouldn't let them sink pilings onto the tunnel.

Has anyone else seen how the Globe has been walking back big parts of their story about T managers working remotely? The story about the capital delivery department largely doesn't seem to have changed, but the fact the deputy safety chief does, in fact, live and work in town definitely changes...

The windows-to-core distance isn't too bad, either. But I suspect the question will hinge on the math. Is there enough leaseable/sellable square-footage to pay for a conversion? The closest comp I can think of is the Boulevard a bit further up the Greenway, although it's in a more pleasant...

I wonder how well that wood planking will hold up to ketchup and mustard?

This will be especially important in helping affordable developers shrink their bottom line as much as possible, given how construction costs are going.

Tell that to the legions of kids at the new playground every day ;)

Some of this is pretty transparent score-settling before the new boss fully takes charge. Look at who's saying the nasty things in the Globe story. It's nameless "coworkers" of these people. And the story focuses a lot on the capital delivery team, who we know (from stories on its ex-leader's...

The Worcester Regional Research Bureau has put out an analysis of WRTA ridership and how things like fare-free transit have or haven't impacted it since COVID: https://www.wrrb.org/reports/2023/04/resurging-regional-ridership/ There's also a data explorer that lets you dig into things like...

I'm not sure you need to even go the whole hog. Places like Burlington, with no rapid transit connection, could have their development trajectories changed massively with a partial-circumference line that links it to downtown Reading (Orange Line extension, God willing), Mishuwam or Anderson...

Driving down Revere Beach Parkway this morning, I noticed one of the parking lots at Wellington appeared jam-packed with normal buses and articulated buses in Silver Line livery. Couldn't get a good look at either as traffic was moving to quickly, so unsure if these were old Neoplan vehicles...

That's all true, but the IT revolution had another side effect: Small-time artists can have fan bases spread all over the country, in seemingly random places. When they tour, it's at places about the size of the Middle East Upstairs (194 ppl) or Sonia (~350 ppl), not MGM Music Hall (3,000 ppl)...

Well, then: https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2023/04/06/verizon-looks-to-sublease-large-chunk-of-north-sta.html

Like the Verizon tower at the Garden in that way, I guess. At least from the Zakim at night, it looks like they still haven't filled around 15% of the floors.