Search results

If you were a teen in the Minneapolis orbit in the 1990s or early 2000s, you knew about Sex World and secretly were desperate to see what was inside. Turns out, it was just 3 stories of gaudy, cheap-as-can-be sex toys, porn, lingerie, "adult novelties" and peep shows (NSFW photos in that...

Is that boutique hotel where Haute Dish used to be on North Washington, a few doors down from Sex World? It's been a while since I lived in Minneapolis, but that's the only two-story white building I can remember in the North Loop 😅

State House News has a big story about how T ridership compares to peer agencies, and what Brian Kane, Jarred Johnson and Jim Rooney from the Greater Boston Chamber think about it. The reporter who wrote it tweeted out the main data in three charts: I'm not sure if it was published elsewhere...

"New small town" is right. That's, what, 1,500 units underway? 2,000 to 2,500 when you add in the Vero and Pioneer? Translates to 3,000-4,000 humans, depending on the unit mixes in each building and how many units are rented by couples?

The other thing to consider is that linkage fees are going up quite a bit (although in a graduated fashion) over the next few years once the Boston Zoning Commission approves the changes. If you, as a developer, believe in the longer-term durability of the biotech sector then it makes a ton of...

In today's edition of the "Are We There Yet" newsletter from the Globe's opinion team. Can't find a permalink to this hosted online anywhere, so I've got to copy-paste:

That's kind of cool to see an owner-operator development like this. We don't get it very often in Boston these days, but that's how a not-insignificant chunk of development used to be done 100 years ago.

Agreed. From the outside, it looks an awful lot like a lot of things are getting punted until a new GM arrives. But that doesn't immediately suggest that Gonneville couldn't do the job -- just that he's being wise and waiting for a new boss to make major policy decisions.

I'd be all for a local version of that station everyone knows on the Chongqing metro.

Also, 3,000 to 4,000 new homes is nothing to sneeze at when various estimates put us tens of thousands of units behind where we need to be just to meet current rental *or* purchase demand.

Allegedly, some of the track work planned in April (announced today: https://www.mbta.com/news/2023-03-23/april-service-changes-will-allow-crews-perform-track-improvement-work-the-red-line ) will address some of those. Does anyone have any inside knowledge that could shed light on what...

If you look at a few of the proposals that have landed during Wu's tenure... https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/12/business/an-accord-allston-harvard-neighbors-reach-deal-that-will-greenlight-big-development-there/...

Not sure why this never clicked before, but wouldn't the warehouse The Davis Compaines built on the Everett-Chelsea line over the last couple years make a great acquisition for the T? They built it for/leased it to Amazon, but apparently the company closed the delivery facility planned there...

Girders spanned the entire Charles when my bus passed over the temporary bridge Saturday! Operator had a lead foot and a clear lane ahead, so I couldn't get a photo, but I counted at least three of the four lines of girders reaching the opposite bank.

Smarter people in this forum can offer their takes whether or not I'm stupid, here, but the idea of a branch line to Danvers Center always struck me as odd. Part of that's a matter of principle: Prioritizing one-seat rides when designing a network seems like it frequently leads to sub-optimal...

This makes me think of a BBC series from about a decade ago where James May (of "Top Gear") and fellow presenter Oz Clarke spend part of it hopping from station to station on some bit of the National Rail network in Yorkshire where each historic station building has a pub. Sounds like an ideal...

Apparently citizenM's big thing is that its rooms are prefabricated a la modular housing: https://www.citizenm.com/company/centralised-business-model Do you think that's what those recesses or rails in the ceilings of each floor in @taketern's photos are for?

With the tower going up over those big windows, it'll need skylights to keep it from being a cavern soon enough.

How about the (abandoned?) ROW north of Peabody Square? Couldn't get the GIS system to tell me about that, either.

This would seem to be relevant to anyone who's fantasized about a Salem-Peabody/Danvers LRT system: https://www.salemnews.com/news/peabody-rousselot-plant-to-close-at-end-of-2023/article_b8590e12-b876-11ed-abc5-6b5afd66e550.html They're the last freight customer on that track, no? The City...