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I can't say I ever realized that quality service every day of the week was quite so limited once you get off the colored transit lines (R/O/G/B/S*). Unless you're in Chelsea, Eagle Hill in Eastie, Harvard Business School and Packard's Corner in Allston, one of the dead at Mt. Auburn Cemetery or...

The brick on the alley side kind of ruins the comparison I'm about to make, but it almost feels like a throwback to 1970s modernist Financial District buildings.

If you can win the argument with Everett officials (you'd probably wind up having to kill some of the big trees in Sweetster Circle to make room for cranes etc.), there is certainly enough room to build a deck over Revere Beach Parkway to put the station closer to the train. What I find...

This is more alternate history inspired by a Wikipedia dive into the Toronto streetcar system's history. The operating principal wasn't to design a "good" streetcar system for Boston, but trying to guess at what one would look like if we never got rid of ours, based on minimal shifts in our...

The difference in parking requirements on either side of the city line seems stark.

I hope this will eventually evolve into "we need more suburban bus routes for last-mile connections like Toronto."

The latest “Everett Docklands Innovation District” concept, per Banker & Tradesman. The thing that looks like a nuclear fuel storage site in the center-left is (presumably) actually the big Jupiter Energy battery-based energy storage facility they announced a while back. Apparently before we...

This ☝️ If you pay close attention to the politics around the MBTA's reliability, you see a lot of downtown Boston business leaders very concerned about anything that makes workers' commutes less pleasant (because it makes it harder to get them in the office, so you have less demand for office...

I wonder if they are planning to self-finance the early buildings, and go debt-heavy on the others.

Facade articulation? 😉

...hire muscular college kids to transport commuters?

And don't forget the potential to build out some form of transit connectivity for all the jobs and potential large multifamily sites along 128 in Woburn, Burlington and maybe northern Lexington.

Is it significant that BXP wants to build this on the site of a 30,000-square-foot lab building? Does anyone have a sense of how old a lab building has to be in order for it to seem "stale" to prospective tenants? This one seems like it was most recently renovated in 2016...

It's sort of too bad Nixon used the Navy Yard to take his revenge on Massachusetts. If the feds were still there you can bet your buns the whole area would be in line for comprehensive flood defenses on that side and at least a flood gate across the mouth of Montego Bay, all in the name of...

https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2024/07/29/lexingtons-mbta-zoning-spurs-real-world-action-fr.html From south to north: ~200-unit CC&F project that I think someone else may have posted elsewhere on ArchBoston (the render in the article looks familiar) is the southern-most dot on this...

That makes sense. The latest numbers say there's still 8 million square feet of lab space under construction (that's 16 times the size of this Two Congress building), only a third of which is pre-leased. And with 16 percent (and rising) of existing space vacant, nearly two-thirds of which is in...

Most folks don't realize it but an endowment isn't just a pile of money sitting in a bank vault. Most of it's tied up in investments, like a pension fund, that are intended to generate cashflow or just keep the dollars safe. If you have the luxury to take a long-term view, you're not going to...

Not sure if this is more appropriate here or in one of the transportation-related threads, but the Worcester Research Bureau is out with the first in a two-part study of parking utilization in the city: https://conta.cc/3Wskuoz and...

That's one way to eliminate most of the Red Line slow zones.

I'm sure regional political coalitions on Beacon Hill play a big part in this.