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https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/05/15/business/healey-names-former-worcester-city-manager-edward-augustus-housing-secretary/?p1=BGSearch_Overlay_Results A profile from several years ago...

Globe aerial, image from the developers. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/05/02/business/another-big-projects-aims-south-boston-warehouse-district/ Little that is new in the Globe article, which fails to mention that most of the 42 acres is leased from Massport. I suspect that the lease...

B&T article from August 2022 had this: 'Massport' said it will combine the four-acre parcel at 525 E St. with 12 adjacent acres that it already owns on Summer Street, providing enough land to relocate the 1.2 million-square-foot postal facility.' From Google maps, the referenced Pappas/Oxford...

Boston public schools are about 15 percent White. That's a big driver for White families with children moving to the 'burbs. And not just White families. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/11/26/metro/boston-schools-lost-15000-black-students-past-20-years-where-did-they-go-will-they-ever-return/

1300 units in this building suggests a lot of micro units. SROs.

The Globe article is ambiguous about who would build the new USPS building. There is a hint that the Commonwealth (Massport?) might be the builder. Massport would give up about 15 acres of its land. In return Massport would gain title to 20 acres of land owned by the Postal Service near A...

I think that max build proposal is as dead as a dodo. Instead of building extra tracks at South station, proponents of the North South rail link want that project to be funded instead. From the Globe article,

Eight years later, --a resurrection? real estate click bait? or a bigger tease than anyone who ever danced at the Old Howard? https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/27/business/hope-springs-anew-that-postal-service-could-move-make-way-south-station-expansion/

$49.5 million for 0.32 acres. Little need to guess what type of building gets built on land costing about $3,500 a square foot, or $150+ million per acre.

Re: Whoop and CITGO https://www.mlb.com/news/boston-red-sox-history-citgo-sign So no tall building blocking the sign, probably until (and if) the sign comes down. Re; Shreve Crump and Low. A taller building would cast new shadows on the Public Garden, which is prohibited, and shadows on the...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/15/business/remote-work-takes-hold-bostons-office-market-starts-wobble/ Several great images in this article. One of which is below: Credit, Boston Globe. It seems that during the golden hour, Boston's buildings turn orange.

From a NY Times daily newsletter (emailed) on climate, specifically discussing Winthrop Center. The newsletter linked to this site which covers Boston's building codes, and climate-related provisions...

According to the City assessing department, the Otis House street address is apparently 14 Lynde St. There is a brick building at the rear of the Otis House (16 Lynde St. ?) and which looks to be appended o the Otis House. The building is more likely a 19th Century appendage. Across Lynde St...

Zoning limit is 65 feet. Will require a zoning waiver. Community input. Community doesn't want a building that overwhelms the adjacent Harrison Gray Otis House, designed by Bulfinch, built in 1796, and a designated National Historic Landmark. Because Otis House is next door, high quality...

Coincidentally from a name standpoint, Washington DC demolished its 45-year old West End library and a developer used the site for an apartment building with a new library on the ground floor. ^^^ The 1967 version. This image of the old library, located on the southwest corner of the...

I'll put this here, although if the parcel is developed it will deserve its own thread. Photo, from the Globe Link to draft RFP https://www.bostonplans.org/getattachment/8a823da4-e847-4ebb-96e7-22dc343b6d63 ^^^From the RFP From the Globe...

He was a senior, and outstanding linebacker, on the 1967 Harvard football team. Deduct 21 years from 1967 = 1946.

Bios of the current BCDC members. https://www.bostonplans.org/planning/urban-design/boston-civic-design-commission/commissioner-bios

https://www.boston.com/uncategorized/noprimarytagmatch/2013/06/25/hff-arranges-90m-in-financing-for-the-boston-harbor-garage/ ^^^ This article is from 2013. IIRC--and confirmation can probably be found in an even older aB thread re: Chiofaro's proposed development -- 2013 marked the...

Article in the Globe, a reminiscence of Harvard Square of yesteryear. Prompted by a new book which is a historiographic assessment of Harvard Square by an MIT economic sociologist who lives there. http://cup.columbia.edu/book/harvard-square/9780231209281 Publisher's blurb Globe essay...