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Quick Tour of Cambridge St (Cambridge) 1500 Cambridge St Slated to become 3 condos - can't find information on internet Vellucci Plaza (Inman Square Redesign) 305 Webster Ave BLDUP Article 1055 Cambridge St Special Permit Application - this passed the planning board several months...

City Councillor Lydia Edwards has been taking an involved role in this redevelopment. In the tweet posted below, she says that the city will be requiring more 2 and 3 family housing. This seems to suggest that the overall height and density will be limited, at least on the outer edges of the...

A unique look at the Citizen M rooftop bar

The Alcott in the foreground

This is the "induced demand" theory of housing prices, and there has been recent empirical research that shows it is incorrect. Paper Link City Observatory Summary/Commentary In short, while new construction, even new luxury construction does cause more people to move to that area, any...

Count the cranes

Re: T construction news Lowering rebar for pylons around the new Lechmere station, around July 31st.

Joe Curtatone has put out an official statement regarding the project: https://twitter.com/JoeCurtatone/status/1156587981064609795

I'm wondering, will the "small projects" threads be broken up, or will we be able to track them individually under their own location? I understand the need to declutter the number of threads, but I'm also thinking that may not be necessary with improved forum software and (I assume) a separate...

TransitMatters affiliates and other activists are accusing the administration of heavily sandbagging these numbers. The story goes that, especially with recent regulations on trainsets lifted (therefore allowing purchase of European designs), the price per car should be ~2.5 million. We can also...

Alon Levy has a blog post skeptical about the current plans for West Station. His thesis is that the station is trying to do too many different things at once, and therefore fails at its core purpose. I think he makes some good points but I have a few questions. He suggests getting rid of the...

WBUR piece on the augmented reality accompaniement to this year's public art, which overlays the Greenway with memories of the past and visions of the future.

10 Essex 300 Putnam

For those looking to support the Riverside development (and development in Newton more generally) get in contact with Engine 6. The website hasn't been updated in a bit but I'm told that they are pushing for this development to happen.

Super happy to see this as well, I wrote a letter in support during the first phase asking for these changes and am pleasantly surprised the development turned my way for once! I no longer live in the A/B area but will be writing in nonetheless, the Harvard/Cambridge intersection and Linden St...

edit: beat by a minute to posting! (and a few hours to capture...)

I love that they're optimistically showing 212 Stuart St. I dug up this article from December 2018 which says that it's won further approvals from local orgs, but it looks like the lawsuit is still unresolved? Will be interesting to see if this proposal meets the same fate.

Boston.com reports that restaurant/cafe/rooftop bar is opening in the retail at Cambridge Crossing. This marks the second restaurant in the Cambridge Crossing / North Point area (Tenoch was slated to open near the Regatta apartments, the other one, Lingo's, is part of the Education First office...

Thanks for the update, passed by these sites often when walking to Coolidge Corner. These units were only possible under the state's 40B law. For context, Brookline permitted only 21 units in all of 2018, in a city of >60,000, according to SOCDS housing data.