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This feels like a dated take from ~5 years ago before Bow Market and the absolute explosion of stuff in and around Sanborn Ct, especially the bars and nightlife. Yeah, the south side of the square has some big parcels landbanked for redevelopment but the north side of the square is more active...

This is a guess so take it as such: For residential properties, people want their value high for financial reasons, and the city delivers, usually appraising properties at whatever the purchase price was regardless of the actual state of the property. (I bought a while back and remember being...

Oh interesting, I'd never heard of Duck Village - when I used to work in that neighborhood everyone called it Beaconville (with Beacon x Washington being "Beaconville Square").

Many COVID changes could still be temporary. I have a lot of coworkers who 100% intend to return to mass transit... once there is a vaccine for kids. Mass transit where you can't bring your kids along is fairly useless. (Masks are NOT good enough to trust my kid's health too, especially when...

They're calling 105/103 Washington "Mallard Square". I have no idea where that name came from, but some of the other neighbors and I were joking it's named for the family of ducks that got stuck in the foundation during construction and had to be rescued by the fire department.

There are something like 12 gas stations within a mile radius, I think it'll be fine. (You do need some gas stations in a city... but we could do with a heck of a lot less of them.)

Happy to see the bluebikes dock. The two nearby have recently started to saturate with commuters (bikes gone by midmorning, docks gone by dinnertime). Additional capacity and reverse demand (since this will be a commute destination rather than source) will help balance it out.

As I understand the situation, the new permanent pumps are not online yet. During the large thunderstorm in early August, there were no temporary pumps installed. Flooded. During Henri in mid August, they installed temporary pumps that kept things dry. During Ida last night, the temporary pumps...

I feel like office parks would be a lot less objectionable if they all had a beer garden in the middle like that.

The umbrella is an absurdist masterstroke, but I'm still happy for that guy on a visceral level for his little spot of shade. I've done roofing in this kind of heat, and I hope I never have to again.

The front section of the site (the hotel) is still in use as a parking lot and hasn't been started. The middle section (the residential building) is still pouring concrete. I guess there was a lot to do. Still a few forms up, but a veritable forest of pillars as well. The back section (the...

Also, it's trying to cram a lot of performance space into a tiny lot. Those big beautiful buildings you posted usually have things between the performance space and the exterior walls - hallways, galleries, backstage. Here the exterior wall of the auditoriums is right up against the exterior...

I almost said in my last post, that Assembly will have "soul" when the kids currently mobbing the playground by the mystic grow up. It IS to some extent generational. Retirees growing old in a place is another one of the important social glues that knit a neighborhood together. All the more...

Soul takes time, and it takes people. I have a personal theory that with the rise of two-worker families, soul is going to take even longer to form in new neighborhoods- stay-at-home parents were one of the important glues that bound a neighborhood together in the past. That said, Assembly is...

Apparently I'm in charge of documenting this one! The parking garage is several stories up, with prefab sections being moved into place with the crane. Pillars for another section of the building are above ground. If you zoom in a bunch in the middle of this pic you can see them assembling(?) a...

It probably was foam, actually - it's called geotechnical foam.

You can pay for a heck of a lot of ferry service with the money you're going to use on your crazytown bridge. Just saying. Cargo ships and pedestrian traffic are probably mutually exclusive in this case.

See, it looks just like the renders! You just need a dismal overcast day with very flat lighting conditions!

Speaking of AI/Logistics in the seaport, there are a bunch of small self-driving car companies there. I work at one - massport likes us because we're "transportation" industry so we fit into the port ecosystem. We like being in a place that's close enough the city to hire techies, but with...

The first crane is off the boat as of lunchtime today. It took them about half a day to do the move itself, so I'm not sure if they were planning on moving a second one today.