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There's a reason for that... https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/home-price-income-ratio-reaches-record-high-0

The 133 Fed. plaza keeps some excellent company in that regard. Here's the BPDA's official map for Downtown. Here are some plazas it names: City Hall Plaza. Here are some parks/plazas it doesn't name, MERELY IN DTX: 133 Fed. Plaza; 125 Summer Plaza; 1 Lincoln Plaza; 175 Fed. Plaza; 100...

Not according to this website, which lists John Moriarty as the GC for One Congress, whereas South Station Tower is Suffolk Const. Still not a great look, as you say, given the recent rash of construction-related fatalities/near-disasters in Boston--and given that Councilor Flynn has already...

I walk by it fairly frequently, and the construction is coming along nicely--but consider the fact that, even if the construction finishes at end-of-April (my estimate just from looking at it), there's still all of the testing of the fountain and any other features involving internal...

I'm not moving the goalposts; I'm merely pointing out what is point-blank obvious: that any study claiming that there has been a meaningful drop in property prices since March 2020 is full of crap, given that there have essentially been zero sales. Prices can't drop without price discovery...

Well, I'm blocked by a paywall, but I doubt it's relevant, as the part that's visible provides the dead giveaway: "property prices in Boston's central business district in the fourth quarter [of 2023] were down 30.4% year-over-year." So, they compared the, what? two-or-three sales in 2022 to...

What on earth are you talking about here? Please, please furnish a reliable, well-researched study by one of the giant nationwide brokerage houses--a Colliers, CBRE, JLL, what-have-you--that actually backs up this assertion. For starters, losses are realized until a property is sold. Very very...

Approved! (April Fool's... on this, the 1,246th day of development review for the proposal. To be followed by the 1,247th. And 1,248th...)

Assuming you're auditioning to be Howie Carr's replacement at the Herald, shouldn't you be forward these embittered reactionary tirades directly to the tabloid... instead of posting them on an architecture/development forum?

Floody McFloodface Station (spoken by someone with much affection for Lynn via my youthful apprenticeship at the Lynn Daily Item but who is increasingly apprehensive of our guaranteed-to-be-inundated future)

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/03/24/metro/battery-powered-improved-service-could-be-coming-to-ts-commuter-rail-in-2027/ TL;DR: --exasperatingly, the MBTA has been foot-dragging for years in terms of living up to its previously announced timelines of when it would electrify its CR fleet...

Until the day comes that an algorithm can be embedded in the AB software that allows this staggeringly informative documentary on the Silver Line's sociopolitical origins to be posted at periodic, sensible junctures, I will continue to happily post it manually. Watch it and be educated...

FWIW, if the 2025 mayoral race kicks-off in earnest around Memorial Day weekend, 2025, then... she has just 14 months to gain any kind of momentum/watershed victories with this interminable slog that is reforming the BPDA. So far, she has... [checks notes] zero victories in this domain. For any...

Perhaps... except, out of curiosity, I just checked the assessing page for the property--its value plunged 19% this year. Again, I repeat: 19%. Insofar as assessed value is a reasonable proxy for a property's economic health, this property is experiencing considerable (if not catastrophic)...

What are you talking about? For starters, commercial landlords pay their property taxes to the City of Boston, not the state. I cannot see how the state is involved with Boston's residential conversion program whatsoever, other than providing the zoning classification that allows for it to...

They just happen to be side-by-side and simultaneous but you can see from looking at their respective BPDA pages that they're totally unrelated. That said, consider in two years what Hamilton Place should be like: 1.) northern gateway: Suffolk U. Law School--all of the positive activity and...

If you had bothered to read the 85 Devonshire residential conversion application, you'd see it's on the very first page: "The estimated cost of the conversion is $36 million." Obviously the developer is picking up 100% of that tab. Next time, please review all of the relevant documentation...

You only have to look just a few posts upthread here for a *lively* debate on this very topic!

I'd promised myself that I was done with this debate, but, this is such an unbelievable claim that here I am perpetuating the argument (my apologies to others who may be annoyed). I've never heard of anything like this, so, I have to express my extreme skepticism. Here's a story from 2019...

(bigpicture7: do you want to be the one to inform Nibbles that several other large retailers--DSW, HomeGoods, Marshalls, Old Navy, Primark, just off the top of my head--have had the audacity to remain open for years in DTX, despite Nibbles' feelings about things being "unwell"? If he takes such...