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There is a long story about the neighbors preventing those lots from being built on and opposing any and all feasible development proposals. But snark is more fun.

These lots are still vacant because of Boomer pastoralist NIMBYs

100% boomer pastoralist NIMBYism turning the area next to green st station into ahistorically low density homes + vacant lots. And the historical density was far too low for heavy rail subway proximate areas.

Incredible how long Morse Fish was there. Also that it was always one story

Its the retail that makes it

At the very least you could probably match the height of Eva White on Tremont. That might be enough depending. Who owns Castle Square?

Hilarious, WeWork gut reno'd this whole building and then went bankrupt. Should've always been apartmetns

You are absolutely right, I was thinking of the Radian building directly across the street.

This is fantastic. A really great location for more cafes and open air dining. Will just attract passersby too. It feels like when it first opened, 1 lincoln had some prominent restaurants and has not really kept that up since the pandemic.

There was an easy way to resubmit the waterfront plan, but she refrained from doing so, with some nice nimby language.

It's not the BPDA, it's the mayor that destroyed it with a huge assist by nimby lawsuits from the CLF.

The problem is the whole thing requires several different subsidies to work. It was a mess the second they made it affordable only.

It fits the slow extension of the high spine along Huntington...

Do they need another lease for the resi buildings? Is this the DOT approval for everything?

The whole thing is a massive own goal by the city, which is kneecapping a developer who wants to add to downtown. Just like the half assed plan downtown zoning, the inaction here is only contributing to the mess. This is one part of the City where high density should be very much by right.

Vertex is absolutely crushing it. They may need more space given the number of bfd drugs they'll soon have.

The city owned parcels where they have X units of heavily subsidized housing cross-subsidized by life science labs which are also paying for a parking garage and many other amenities...

It's going to be darkly funny when the market rate infill all gets built way before the high concept, baroque subsidized buildings along the square proper (on city owned land) get developed. Will be very similar to the SWC in that way.

Good catch. Didn't realize there was a suit beyond "working the refs" aka the city dev authorities with their nonsense.

Salim Furth (Housing scholar @ Mercatus) has pointed out that 44% of Milton voting for more housing in a plan not particularly close to transit is actually a remarkable sign of popularity of upzoning elsewhere. Milton, arguably is one of the least likely places to vote for density, vs say a...