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Current Class A rents in Boston are about what NYC's were *prepandemic* (~$50/sqft and more in certain areas), mostly because Boston underbuilt office for so long downtown and NYC has relatively lax office zoning. This is a drop from $70, BUT, remember those rents were more than enough to...

I mean that's a ridiculous statement. Office vacancies in the northeast are still below the early 90s recession, the going rents in Boston for class A are more than enough to justify new construction. Random class B and C space not being worth it is a different story.

It's surrounded by offices on the Back Bay side and there's resi towers a block on either side. Proven market. Maybe keep optionality for a big office building on the site.

Really one they should put a tower on.

Perfect street for dense infill.

Interesting, wonder how the economics work without the office space subsidizing the affordable units. Possible that 80-100% AMI homeownership units are close to pencilling in Roxbury these days (they have in the past).

Lol, this is never getting built.

Don't worry, it's in no danger of pencilling any time soon (though the condo building alone with 81 market rate condos, too) might.

The woman who owned the Gallows also started Blackbird Donuts, Banyan Bar and Refuge (nearby), and Sally's Sandwiches. The restaurant group is still called "The Gallows Group." There is capital, question is whether there is interest.

The million dollar question: Is the Gallows reopening in there?

So the whole thing is a mess --- they carved out phase 1 to do small project review on it in the hope of getting ARPA funds. In so doing they basically threw the entire masterplan up for grabs and said they're going to do a new review of it. So who know. The surface parking lot is an utter...

Retail spaces! Good Tufts, doing the non institutional thing and having commercial tenants.

This looks...really nice?

The BPDA is holding it up over two street trees. Insane.

Here's the thing: It is a *much* nicer looking building in person than the Whoop building. It manifestly does *not* look cheap --- it looks like some of the new, slightly historicist modern construction on the Upper East Side in NYC. Dislike it all you like, but cheap it ain't.

This is very true --- Boston is insanely expensive for hotels, as anyone signing expense reports for business travel can attest. That said, seems reasonable to do more housing in the seaport when it's full of giant hotels. We do need to think about how to zone for more hotel space --- a big...

I work around the corner. Even incomplete, it is clear this building is stunning. The materials are excellent and the glass really pops. The endless haterade being spilled is unnecessary. There's pages of documentation on why the old building was unsupportable. The idea that *design review*...

Rivvian like the Lucid in the Seaport and the Tesla nearby aren't traditional dealerships. They're showrooms for companies that want to be dtc. Honestly that type of use doesn't bother me.

That's potentially a good idea, but the developer proposed cutting the parking for green space and the ZBA wouldn't play ball. Unacceptable.

Those townhouses are zoning-noncompliant in Boston's rowhouse n'hoods let alone less dense ones. The economics of townhouses work great for building at scale if they're by right is my understanding. We do see occasional infill that looks like this in the South End where it's small apt...