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I hear you, this is just not the current state and it's unclear how you commemorate this...at all. Maybe they should build a retro arena that looks like old Matthews, but it's not clear to me what that solves.

One end has a parking lot and an attached building that is not arena qua arena. At the very least those should be a tower. On the arena side, the first thing that comes to mind is the Columbia University gym is the bottom few floors of a tower with cavernous open spaces.

Matthews is ugly and nothing special. The brick arch is kinda cool. Whatever, this matches the NEC buildings across the street. Biggest miss is not putting dorms on top imho.

Love these insane parkland requirements. Maybe 50% is right, but it's bizarre to start so proscriptively.

It's a bad faith concern. There are daycares all over town and yet we don't have smelly diaper complaints about them. Like all clever NIMBY bs, it's couched in something that seems prima facie reasonable, but deeper thought will reveal that it is of course something that is accounted for by...

The MPNDC proposal for Warren / Crawford is good and points to the strength of their recent work --- it's heavily mixed income requiring less subsidy.

It was meant to be resi, but WeWork bought it for a fortune and started converting it to Office. Then WeWork went bankrupt.

This type of buildout could be great for the rest of the South Bay center. Target and Stop and Shop clearly coexist nearby under apartments. Home Depot does in NYC

Yeah, Nubian is its own set of problems. Completely agreed. They're just different ones, if similar at times.

I live nearby and walk through there multiple times a week...

And further, Mass and Cass is hyperlocalized. Three blocks down Harrison from Mass Ave, by BWSC, you see no sign of anything amiss.

Northeastern's new architectural style: swirly metal. Just look at (the much better) EXP and ISEC

Gainsboro Garage is a great spot for a tower...direct connection to the T

TFA has a history of unhinged comments and outbursts. The typos here are the type of things she would put on twitter in the past.

It's interesting how much nicer the MPNDC developments at Whittier Choice + Madison Park look than Bartlett. They've also moved faster. Wonder what there is to be learned.

This is all the CRA. A Cambridge gov't source says that their planners (+ Cambridge City ones) are inordinately fond of these roadfume parks and no one can convince them otherwise.

I get ground level views most days if useful....

I still find the fields along Rutherford Ave bizarre (toxic fume park!) and the setback antiurban, but love how this is progressing and the affordability mix is great.

JP residents continually block projects around Green St station (and by Jackson Sq and Stony Brook), anything that would pencil on Centre St to replace single story taxpayers, and dense infill throughout. Occasional exceptions notwithstanding. Look at PLAN JP Rox: the requirements the...

Exactly.