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At least on the 1000 Boylston site, that's because the development team turned their knives on each other: https://bankerandtradesman.com/metal-trees-noisy-elevators-and-a-35m-cost-overrun/ and https://bankerandtradesman.com/lawsuit-says-gross-mismanagement-derailed-1000-boylston-air-rights-tower/

That's an interesting question. The Globe's and WBUR's coverage at the time was 100% focused on preventing any more of the Harvard Square ceiling from falling down, so I'm not sure if Eng's had to answer that question publicly. Does anyone know how that chief of stations position deals with...

I doubt it. Michelle Wu's office looks out on Faneuil Hall, and there's a quote in the Globe's story where she says, essentially how staring at the place every day made her mad given the deferred maintenance and her *creative differences* with Ashkenazy. Seems like the kind of crazy-making thing...

If I'm reading the map right, I think they want to eat into that area to maintain access to the Coughlin Bypass Road, and put the bus traffic to the right of the viaduct legs on the right of your screenshot.

I remember seeing that and being somewhat skeptical of that busway next to Excel Academy. Can that actually work w/ the turn radius of the semis using the Coughlin Bypass? That seems like it creates a pretty tight corner for Logan-bound trucks, but maybe this is one of those things where it'll...

"Trotting Park" would give it some strong TFL vibes.

The idea of giving Boston drivers the ability to fly as well terrifies me :LOL:

It's renders like this that make you wonder when DCAMM is going to look at that courthouse complex and see a chance to get a new combined Somerville-Cambridge courthouse tower on the parking lot and sell/lease the current courthouse lot for something else, like affordable housing or more labs.

Dumb question, but what do those big tanks hold? Something to do with foundation work, obviously, but what? Water to keep the groundwater level stable?

Now I know what would have happened if Siegfried and Roy had defected to North Korea instead of moving to America.

The one thing to remember about Lexington is that the town seems to be swinging towards densification. They were literally the first community to upzone to comply with MBTA Communities (back in March, I think?), a year and a half before their formal deadline and with a plan that went way, way...

@Teban54 Don't underestimate the demand to travel from Eastie to Chelsea and Everett that good subway service can unlock/can shift onto transit. That Market Basket is a huge regional draw, and the flow of both car traffic along that axis and of Silver Line>Airport riders seems quite significant...

Vancouver's SkyTrain is another system that does a great job with elevated tracks. Apparently modern els in general are notably cheaper than tunneling?

I hate to say it, but I would expect more buildings like this for the next little while as developers and suppliers adjusts supply chains and investors adjust profit expectations. If you think about this Globe story from a couple weeks ago...

How much does it cost to maintain/repair a structure like that? Seems notable that Exelon never took down the three decommissioned stacks next to this one -- just capped them.

https://bankerandtradesman.com/healey-makes-tibbits-nutt-permanent-massdot-secretary/ Looks like a lot of people are very happy about this.

Forever, or at least until the owners decide to retire. That place must mint money: it gets so busy on the weekend that it sometimes causes traffic back-ups in the right-hand lane on the Parkway eastbound and on Spring Street.

I love the obvious construction worker (those biceps and boots....) drafted in as a scaley for the photos. A nice-looking building, all around!

Hear, hear!

Financing construction depended on selling BFIT's current South End building for redevelopment by Related Beal. But the loans Related (and any other developer) would need to take out right now cost about twice what they did when the deal with BFIT was made almost two years ago, so presumably...